Medical support of airborne operations.

Headquarters 23 Parachute Field Ambulance RAMC, Rhine Barracks, Aldershot, Hampshire GUll 2AX • Introduction In 1984 the Government announced the enhancement of 5 Airborne Brigade (5 AB Bde) for operations outside the NATO area (Out of Area or OOA operations)!. These enhancements included the .. addition of a medical unit (a field ambulance formed from the expansion of the existing Parachute Clearing Troop) whose lack had been seen as one of the logistic deficiencies during the Falkland Islands campaign . This