Matthew Lee "Matt" Underwood Email address wrote Date: 2000-07-25 23:04:54 Unit: Dad's unit: 6407th USAF Hospital, Tachikawa AB, Japan It is my intention to write more as I am able about Tachi Air Base and her MedEvac/Combat Cargo Units. They were instrumental, under FEAMCOM's and FEALOGFOR's administration, with servicing the one of the largest cycles of Medical Air Evacuations in military history, and substantially share in the credit of saving thousands of servicemen's lives. Had these techniques not been developed, and things were as they existed in 1945, the dead count from the Korean War would have been far greater than the 54,000+ that we did suffer. And as these basic MedEvac techniques were judged a success, they were also used during the Vietnam War, honing the process so that if a wounded soldier could be reached by a medic (starting the MedEvac chain, so to speak), he had a 98% survival rate because of the efficient techniques developed in Korea---primarily out of Tachikawa Air Base and FEAMCOM / FEALOGFOR. This can and has been substantiated by Air Force historians and other authors. So therefore, I think it fitting to honor the men and women who served at this Base, or out of units which had significant operations out of this Base. Thank you for your efforts in honoring all the Korean War Veterans like my dad.