Air Mobility Command (AMC) at Scott AFB, Illinois, US, has selected Travis Air Force Base (AFB), California, US, for the US Air Force’s (USAF) specialised aeromedical evacuation (AE) missions related to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
Travis AFB is one of the three selected bases, others being Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, US, and Ramstein AFB, Germany.
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The airbases are used as staging grounds for AMC’s AE missions involving Transportation Isolation System (TIS) use.
Developed by the US Department of Defense (DOD) during the Ebola outbreak in 2014, the TIS is an infectious disease containment unit. It has been designed to transport infected patients with in-flight medical care.
