Coalition Nations Sign International “Interfly” Proclamation of Understanding Published May 21, 2012 By Jon Stock Air Force Surgeon General Public Affairs WASHINGTON -- Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Charles B. Green, U.S. Air Force Surgeon General, along with the surgeons general of Australia, Canada and Great Britain, signed an international "Interfly" Proclamation of Understanding on May 14 during the Aerospace Medical Association Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The "Interfly" proclamation is intended to promote and support mutual cooperation and interoperability of the Aeromedical Evacuation (AE) assets between Nations. This proclamation conveys the desire to promote agreements and arrangements that provide for compatible training, equipment and procedures so that AE teams from these Nations may support each other on the same aircraft where operational circumstances require this. "They train alike, they understand the same critical care aspects, they understand aeromedical evacuation aspects," said Green. "This will facilitate future training exercises and will serve all of our nations well." Although there has been an informal agreement since 2009 to clear medical equipment on each other's similar aircraft, the formal proclamation will allow the nations' medical teams to utilize aircraft and work alongside each other for the years to come. "When you have a team that is trained, well equipped and meets the standards, they should be able to board an aircraft quickly to move critical patients because we do it so well together," said Green. "This is a great move forward in our joint partnership." The other countries Surgeon's General representatives were Air Commodore Tracy Smart, Royal Australian Air Force Director General Air Force Health Services; Commodore Hans Jung, Canadian Forces Surgeon General; and Air Vice Marshal Aroop Mozumder, Royal Air Force Director General Medical Services Chief of Staff.