Jan. 19, 2018 This Month in AFMS History: Lt Elsie Ott and the First Official Aeromedical Evacuation Flight In January 1943, 2nd Lt. Elsie S. Ott, a 29-year-old Army nurse with barely a year of military service, took on a mission to demonstrate the value and feasibility of aeromedical evacuation. Ott, serving in Karachi, in what was then India, was selected to escort five seriously ill patients from India