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| | Patient support pallet used for first time on KC-10 |
 | | In a special request by South Korean officials to the U.S. State Department, a South Korean college student, paralyzed as a result of an accident while on vacation in the United States, was aeromedically evacuated from March Air Reserve Base, Calif., to South Korea. |
 | | Normally, the KC-10 Extender, which has been in the Air Force inventory for more than 20 years, is used for moving as many as 65 passengers and as much as 170,000 pounds of cargo while conducting air-refueling missions. |
 | | While the 59 KC-10s in service today have the capability to support aeromedical-evacuation missions, none had been flown with the patient support pallet installed on the aircraft. |
| www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/10/mil-041004-afpn02.htm (678 words) |
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