SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (USTCNS) --- A C-21 crew comprised of 458th Airlift Squadron and 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron personnel on a local training sortie to Klamath Falls, Ore., learned the meaning of flexibility when it became a medevac mission to Honduras Feb. 21.

Aircraft commander Capt. Paul Sonstein, co-pilot Capt. Jeff Goggins, flight nurse Capt. Caroline Plahuta and medical technician Tech. Sgt. Paul McGill were called on to transport a seriously injured reservist from Soto Cano Honduras to Kelly Air Force Base, Texas.

"We were doing a regular trainer and Randolph had the alert but they couldn't do it," Goggins said. "So the AC was qualified to do it and they asked us to do it. We showed up here and they said 'Hey you're going.'"

Once the crew gathered all needed supplies and equipment, it was off to Honduras.

"Then we went down there and picked up the patient," Goggins said. "It worked out real good. They were ready for us when we got there and we turned around and came back. We were only down there about an hour."

The entire mission lasted approximately 36 hours.

This is just one more example of the outstanding work done by the men and women of the 375th Airlift Wing in providing aeromedical support. (FROM SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE PUBLIC AFFAIRS).