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Bent Aircrew!
Pete got me on this subject. In Thailand we got the only recompression chamber between Korea and Okinawa.I'm not sure why except they had the $$$ and it was ultimately turned over to the Thai SF.
In my time we actually got to fire it up for something other than pre-testing students once. The Flight surgeon at U-Tapao sent over a B-52 crew. Our Team Sergeant, Ed Foshee was a school trained diving medic. A diving medic is the boss in diving accidents, over and above doctors. He performed another neurological exam and determined that the men were suffering from decompression sickness, aka the bends.
We recompressed the crew and Foshee was put into direct telephone contact with a flight surgeon in Texas. The surgeon concurred with and approved of each step Ed took.
The only people we ever treated for real weren't even divers. Theiy were a B-52 crew. Apparently their pressurization system had gone haywire and took them upto high altitude and back to below sea leval several times in a short period of time.
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