Critical Care Air Transport Teams
Staff Sgt. Jason Leonard, an aeromedical technician, unloads a Critical Care Air Transport Team, or CCATT, patient from a litter bus during Operation Iraqi Freedom at Balad Air Base, Iraq recently. The CCATT’s mission is to operate an intensive care unit in an aircraft during flight, helping enable America to follow through on its promise to the critically wounded warrior. The teams are made up of three members, a critical care physician and nurse, and a respiratory therapist, and can care for up to three critically injured, monitored patients, or up to six less severely injured patients, for 72 hours. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)