A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescue crew and paramedics assist a woman onto a gurney.
A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescue crew and paramedics assist a woman onto a gurney at the Coast Guard base in Mobile, Ala., on Sept. 1, 2005. Critically ill patients from a National Guard field hospital in Biloxi, Miss., are being transported to the Coast Guard base and transferred to local emergency medical services.