Hoodie

• A high-quality sweatshirt that is heavy enough to endure the cold as well as the years
• Front pouch pocket, matching drawstring, and rib cuffs
• Note: If you like your hoodies baggy instead of the perfect fit, go a size or 2 up
• 50% cotton and 50% polyester
• Preshrunk to minimize shrinkage

Unit History

The 57th Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance) was a US Army unit located at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, which provided aeromedical evacuation support to the Fort Liberty community, while training in its combat support mission. The first helicopter ambulance unit to be fielded the UH-1 Huey helicopter, it was also the first unit to deploy to Vietnam with the UH-1, and the first unit to fly them in combat, in 1962. By the time the detachment redeployed to the continental United States ten years, ten months, and seventeen days later, its crews had evacuated nearly 78,000 patients. The unit's callsign, "Dustoff," selected in 1963, is now universally associated with United States Army aeromedical evacuation units.