RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany, Oct. 8 -- The U.S. Air Forces in Europe & Air Forces Africa issued the following press release:

Standing inside a military aircraft, U.S. and Tanzanian medical professionals worked through a problem that could someday become very real: how to safely move a seriously ill or injured patient through the air.

Where would the patient go? Where could the medical team work? How would oxygen, monitors and other lifesaving equipment be secured? And how would medical personnel and aircrew coordinate throughout the mission?

Those practical questions were part of a series of knowledge exchanges between the Tanzania People's Defence Force and U.S. Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa's Office of the Command Surgeon, ...