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File: aabhf_02.txtthis hub so that if the patient needed further treatment, they would not have to take another flight to get to one place in a country where there were -141s flying out. The design was that there would be four hubs in this country, and KXMC was the furthest north. I think that when the numbers came up, probably of the tac part of the hubs, KKMC was the busiest. I don't know how the numbers are going to work on the strat hubs. We have seen between 600 and 700 patients in our tac hub. What happened for us, when we got here, we landed; I had done two quick site surveys. I met the MAC ALCC [Airlift Control Center]. That is another thing that I think absolutely needs to be emphasized; that the medical facilities be located and be in contact with MAC ALCC people. They are invaluable in helping this mission get started; and the communication, the fact that they can talk to aircraft way ahead of time and give us a heads up and get us to the point where, by the time the plane lands, we are ready to take those patients out there, when time is of the essence. So, we landed, met the MAC ALCC people. We were the first element of Med Base America, which is what this whole hub is called. Because of that, we were very fortunate in many ways. I have a few regrets about that, which I will talk about later, but when we first got here, we mapped out our property. It was recommended from the Air Evac Control Center that we ask for a lot of about lOOx200 feet, which was totally impractical, way too small. I talked to another MASF [Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facility] that had been established, and they encouraged me to try to get a lot more property than that, so I did. I got about 200x300 feet. 2
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