GERMANY: Flight crew who accompanied the U.S.Soldier Jessica Lynch back from Kuwait to Ramstein air force base and the Landstuhl medical facility

Record ID: 852040

  • Title: GERMANY: Flight crew who accompanied the U.S.Soldier Jessica Lynch back from Kuwait to Ramstein air force base and the Landstuhl medical facility
  • Date: 3rd April 2003
  • Summary: (EU) LANDSTUHL, GERMANY (APRIL 3, 2003) (REUTERS) MV/ZOOM OUT/WS: OF CREW MEMBERS WALKING TOWARDS CAMERA SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) CAPT SHEAN GALVIN, MEDICAL CREW DIRECTOR SAYING "We got her in stable condition, she was smiling, she was talking to us, tolerated the flight well, she had a lot of help. She had a lot of help, C-cat team with us and three of us. Front-end c
  • Embargoed: 18th April 2003 13:00
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  • Location: LANDSTUHL, GERMANY
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  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Conflict,General
  • Reuters ID: LVA8XAD63V957PG2R3NMEMLNC45Y
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  • Story Text: The flight crew who accompanied the U.S. soldier Jessica Lynch, held as a prisoner of war by Iraq for more than a week until U.S. special forces freed her, said that Lynch was in a stable condition but gave no further details about her injuries.
    The flight crew who accompanied the U.S. soldier Jessica Lynch, held as a prisoner of war by Iraq for more than a week until U.S. special forces freed her, said that Lynch was in a stable condition but gave no further details about her injuries.
    Capt Shean Galvin, Staff Sergeant Susan Hodges and Staff Sgt Alfie Bondoc said on Thursday (April 3, 2003) that even though Lynch was sedated she was smiling during the flight.
    The flight from Kuwait took over eight and a half hours.
    Lynch was accompanied by two or three friends from her unit, there were a total of about 30 people on board the plane.
    The 19-year-old female Private First Class, who has two broken legs and one broken arm, was with a maintenance convoy ambushed by Iraqi forces on March 23.
    Lynch, from Palestine in West Virginia, was rescued from a hospital in the southern Iraqi town of Nassiriya on Tuesday (April 1) night by U.S. special forces.
    She arrived at the U.S. Ramstein air base in southwestern Germany shortly after midnight on Thursday (April 3) aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane.
    The ambulance took her to the nearby Landstuhl Medical Facility, Americas largest hospital outside the United States.
    Lynch had been one of 15 soldiers listed missing, captured or killed when a 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company convoy made a wrong turn and came under attack.
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