I'm an ex-USAF doctor. I wasn't a flight surgeon so I didn't get to wear one of those cool flight suits. Got to fly in a lot of stuff (C-17, C-141, Medivac Lear jet type thing) but never got a ride in a Blackhawk. Got to ride in a Huey (Dust Off) several times flying seriously injured personell from Eglin AFB over to Pensacola (great trip by the way, white sand, beaches, etc.) Rode back with doors open, moonlight on the water, legs hanging out the door.
It was a real shock to me when I got deployed to Bosnia back when all that started. The shock was not getting deployed, the shock was that they were sending me into Tusla with a small TALSE (C-17) medical unit and sending the flight surgeon to
Germany to coordinate the air evacs. Somehow I just assumed I would be the one sleeping in a hotel in Frankfort while the flight surgeon slept in a tent and used a privy!
Lucky for me I never made it to Tusla. They sent 2 units of med folks and the other unit was a gung-ho light colonel that wanted to go and I was a lowly captain who wanted to go
home! I spent a month in Germany and a week tending to the airlift guys using the airport in Budapest. We stayed in a Marriot overlooking the Danube.
In any case, what type of unit are you in Doc? Where are you normally stationed? What else have you gotten to ride in?