Forty Belgian troops left
Melsbroek Military Airport bound for Mali on Sunday
morning 27 January 2013. After a stopover in an unspecified country they will be
deployed operating two Belgian Army Medical Corp Augusta A109BA
helicopters that are being sent to Mali as part of Operation Serval.
They will join the three Belgian soldiers already in Mali. The Belgians will be based in the Malian capital Bamako.
The two helicopters (registrations H-30 and H-39) left Melsbroek for Mali aboard a
Russian Ilyushin 76 transport plane today (29/01). The exact location of where the
helicopters will be based has yet to be confirmed.
The helicopters will be used to fly the wounded to hospitals and
medical posts and consequently will be deployed as close to the front as
is practically possible.
Source: flandersnews.be
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