any time we would take a casualty, we'd call for medivac it took a half an hour for the medivac to fly down, load the person in; another half an hour to get them back, which meant it was an hour before they got medically treated. if i could do it, any time we had a casualty i'd get my helicopter in there right away, and that saved you half an hour's flying time for him to get down there. on this one given day a company walked into a mine field. i had flown in with my helicopter to medivac the casualties out. my helicopter had flown off with the casualties, and then another kid stepped on a mine over to my right, right over there, and seriously broke his leg. he started flailing around and screaming, and i was worried about two things. number one, he was going to panic the rest of the company and the rest of the company was going to run and, of course, that's the worst possible thing they could have done at that time because they would have been running on a mine field. secondly, i was worried about the way he was flailing around. it was obviously a compound fracture, and i was afraid t