Air Force: More than four thousand lives saved in 2018.
The Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CEMFA) It revealed that this branch of the military saved over 4.100 lives in 2018. BA11 alert crews involved in rescues.
“In search and rescue missions carried out by the alert crews, based on the Lajes, no Montijo, in Beja, Ovar, or in Porto Santo, covering an area in excess of five million square kilometers, They resulted in a total of more than 4.100 saved lives, of which 127 from day 01 January this year”, accounted General Joaquim Nunes Borrego.
Last year, the device Air Force carried out “next to 17.500 flight hours, ultimate expression of your operating product”, said CEMFA, adding that, these, “next to 40% operational framework, not infrequently, elsewhere and in other land flags”.
The celebrations of the 77th anniversary of the Air Force, in Viseu, chaired by the Minister of Defense, João Gomes Cravinho, Joaquim Nunes Borrego considered to have the time to reflect on who they are and what they have done this military branch, concluding then: We are “a young and modern force full of history and memory”.
Joaquim Borrego added that the FA registered “305 aero-medical evacuation missions, from the beginning of the year, so many times done in the most remote parts of the country, but also with the outstanding national forces, represent, possibly, the most visible and known to the daily effort”.
