Officially Licensed USMC HMR-362 Patch P3 Fifteenth Air Force heritage collectors

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evacuated wounded

The squadron's medevac missions are credited with saving hundreds of Marine lives by rapidly evacuating wounded from the front lines to mobile Army surgical hospitals

The light transport squadrons flew smaller utility helicopters that complemented the medium transport HMR squadrons

HMX-1 was originally created to develop helicopter assault techniques and tactics for the Marine Corps

Officially Licensed USMC HMR-362 Patch P3 Fifteenth Air Force heritage collectorsOfficially Licensed USMC HMR 362 Patch Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron Embroidered Patch HMR 362 the transport squadron that became the Ugly Angels. HMR 362 was the helicopter transport squadron designation that evolved into HMM 362, the legendary "Ugly Angels" the first Marine helicopter squadron to deploy to Vietnam in 1962 as "Archie's Angels" under Lt. Col. Archie Clapp. In the HMR era, the squadron was developing the helicopter transport