Iran strikes exposed gaps in medical evacuation ops across Middle East: IG

The military abandoned plans to use Army helicopters to evacuate wounded troops involved in the war with Iran, and instead resorted to slower ground-based evacuations, in part due to the threat of drone strikes, according to a Defense Department Office of the Inspector General report released Monday. The shift illustrates a problem medical officials had  warned about for years.At the start of the operation, the U.S. used Army helicopters in Kuwait and Iraq for medical evacuation,