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Birmingham, AL --(AmmoLand.com)- Over the river and through the woods to granny’s house isn’t quite the same these days. Vacations filled with baking cookies and playing games with grandparents are things of the past.

Grandchildren are more likely to cruise the Caribbean, photograph in the Serengeti, or fish the Yellowstone River on a vacation with granny and grandpa these days. Grandparents are traveling more than ever and quite often, they are taking the grandchildren with them.

According to Helena Koenig, founder and president of GrandTravel, a Maryland-based travel agency that specializes in trips for grandparents and their grandchildren, “They are interested in not only maintaining a close relationship with their grandchildren—which is possible long distance through e-mail and videos—but they want to enrich their grandchildren’s lives. Travel is just the thing for that.”

Passing down the traditions of hunting and fishing is often left to grandparents in today’s world, as parents rarely have the time. It is a special heritage that this older generation can share with their grandchildren. This often entails travel to remote areas whether within the US or abroad.

That is why Medjet created a special membership option to address the unique needs of grandparents traveling with their grandchildren.

Traveling with kids of any age can be worrisome, so Medjet wants to take some of that worry away from grandparents. The company offers an option that allows Medjet members to add their grandchildren to their membership for only $75 per grandchild. This will provide their grandchildren the same benefits of the grandparents Medjet membership whether they are traveling together or separately.

As a Medjet member, should you or your grandchild as a member become ill or injured and become hospitalized and continue to require in-patient hospitalization back home, Medjet will arrange transportation to the hospital of your choice from virtually anywhere in the world at no additional expense.

But that’s not all your membership provides. Medjet can provide you with pre-travel planning information on visa, passport and immunization requirements for your destination as well as travel, health and safety precautions. You’ll also have access to contact information for doctors, hospitals, and attorneys in the areas to which you’re traveling.

Also, members can receive assistance with foreign-language interpretation over the telephone during medical and legal emergencies.

Should you find yourself or your grandchild hospitalized as an inpatient due to illness or injury while traveling 150 miles or more from home, you simply place a collect or toll-free call to Medjet’s medical department, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Medical coordinators will establish communication with your family and with your local attending medical provider to evaluate and begin monitoring your condition. If you or your grandchild still require inpatient hospitalization, Medjet will arrange medical evacuation and make all the arrangements with the medical personnel at the hospital you choose for a smooth bed-to-bed transition.

Medjet is a pre-paid annual membership with no monetary limit to its benefits. Annual membership dues are $250 for an individual, $385 for a family, and $95 for short term international and domestic. For domestic-only annual membership, it is $175 for an individual and $305 for a family. And now, grandparents can add their most precious little ones for only $75 and bring them along on all their trips!

About MedjetAssist
MedjetAssist was established in 1991 and is the premier medical evacuation and repatriation membership program for travelers. MedjetAssist has its corporate headquarters in Birmingham, AL, and was recently named the exclusive provider of worldwide air ambulance and medical repatriation services for AARP. For additional information, visit medjet.com.

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Birmingham, AL --(AmmoLand.com)- MedjetAssist spokesman Craig Boddington is slated to share his vast hunting expertise during two seminars at the upcoming Dallas Safari Club annual convention at the Dallas Convention Center, January 8th and 9th.

With in excess of 80 African safaris to his credit, Boddington is the only living journalist who has successfully hunted Africa’s nine spiral-horned antelopes and Africa’s Big Five. His television show, Tracks Across Africa, takes viewers along on his exciting and dramatic hunting experiences on the Dark Continent.

Recognized as one of the foremost experts on African hunting, Boddington will tap his experience and expertise for the seminars at the Dallas Safari Club convention and focus on safari rifles, gun loads, bullets, sights and optics for the modern safari. The hour-long seminar is offered on Friday, January 8 at 12:30 p.m. and Saturday, January 9 at 11 a.m. Both seminars will be conducted in room D223, but be advised to get there early to ensure yourself a seat. Historically, this seminar has been a must-attend event at the convention, and maximum seating has been reached very quickly.

Craig has been a Medjet member for more than five years. His travels take him all over the world and into some of the most remote areas in search of game. With his Medjet membership card in his pocket, he and his family travel with peace of mind even if the unexpected should happen while they’re a half of a world away from home.

“Don’t be hesitant to go on an African safari or any other hunt of lifetime,” Boddington said. “Go! But be sure to take Medjet with you. I travel with the peace of mind that only a Medjet membership can provide because I know wherever I go, the good folks at Medjet will be there to take care of my family and me when I need them most.”

With a MedjetAssist membership, if a member is hospitalized more than 150 miles from home and continues to meet inpatient criteria at the receiving hospital, MedjetAssist will arrange medical transportation to the hospital of the member’s choice at no additional cost.

Medjet is a pre-paid annual membership with no monetary limit to its benefits. Annual membership rates are $250 for an individual, $385 for a family, and short-term memberships start at $95. Annual domestic-only membership is also available for $175 for an individual and $305 for a family.

About MedjetAssist
MedjetAssist was established in 1991 and is the premier medical evacuation and repatriation membership program for travelers. MedjetAssist has its corporate headquarters in Birmingham, AL, and was recently named the exclusive provider of worldwide air ambulance and medical repatriation services for AARP. For additional information, visit www.medjet.com.

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Birmingham, Alabama —-(AmmoLand.com)- Imagine yourself on a dream safari, deep in the Bushveld and hundreds of miles from civilization. But instead of enjoying the expedition that took years to plan, you’ve taken ill and can’t even get out of bed.

Baking under the sweltering African sun, you’re disoriented, queasy and drifting in and out of consciousness, and despite the best efforts of a paramedic who happens to be sharing your camp, you’re not getting any better. A day’s travel from the nearest medical facility, your fellow campers begin to believe that you’ll be lucky to make it out of there alive.

But it’s not luck you need. You just need one phone call to MedjetAssist. For William Fisher of Eagle River, AK, that one call to Medjet in October may have been the difference between life and death.

The last thing 63-year-old Fisher expected from his Zambian Cape buffalo safari was to be the subject of an emergency remote evacuation. But instead of harvesting a trophy bull on his dream hunt, four days after arriving in the camp along the South Luangwa River, he found himself on a medical jet bound for Nairobi, Kenya.

A former Air Force pilot who flew in Vietnam and career special agent with the Immigration and Nationalization Service, Fisher was no stranger to high temperatures. But the four-and-a-half hour, 105-degree ride in the sun-drenched, open-top hunting vehicle into camp was the first blow to Fisher’s system, which was already weakened by a recent bout with a respiratory illness.

Despite successfully scouting hundreds of elephant, hippo, antelope and several fine specimens of Cape buffalo in the first two days, the scorching temperatures only increased as Fisher’s condition spiraled downward, confining him to his bed. It worsened to the point that his son and hunting partner Billy, a trained paramedic from Oregon, had expended all of his resources and began to fear for his father’s life. He grabbed the satellite phone and called MedjetAssist.

The elder Fisher was suspected of suffering heat stroke and severe dehydration. Medjet immediately went to work arranging a remote evacuation to get Fisher to a major medical facility for stabilization and treatment. Fisher was transported to Nairobi via a medically equipped Citation jet and was given five liters of fluid intravenously by the onboard doctor. At the hospital, he was treated for exacerbation of his chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heat stroke.

Normally, a medical evacuation like this would have cost Fisher nearly $20,000. Fortunately as a member of MedjetAssist, the nation’s leading emergency medical evacuation and repatriation membership program, Fisher and his family’s only out of pocket expense was their membership fee. Luckily on this trip they were in the capable hands of MedjetAssist.

“I’ve been around the world my whole life, but this trip was different,” said Fisher from his Alaska home. “Medjet saved my life, and I don’t know what I would have done without them.”

If a Medjet member is hospitalized more than 150 miles from home—virtually anywhere in the world, Medjet will arrange for medical transportation to the hospital of their choice at no additional cost.

Medjet is a pre-paid annual membership with no monetary limit to its benefits. Annual membership dues are $250 for an individual, $385 for a family, and short-term memberships start at $95. Annual domestic-only protection is also available for $175 for an individual and $305 for a family.

About MedjetAssist
Medjet was established in 1991 and is the premier medical evacuation and repatriation membership program for travelers. MedjetAssist has its corporate headquarters in Birmingham, AL, and was recently named the exclusive provider of worldwide air ambulance and medical repatriation services for AARP. For additional information, visit www.medjet.com.

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Birmingham, AL —-(AmmoLand.com)- MedjetAssist, the nation’s leading emergency medical evacuation and repatriation membership program, announced today that Craig Boddington has signed on as a company spokesperson to the hunting and outdoor market.

“As a widely recognized outdoorsman and unarguably one of this generation’s most accomplished hunting experts, Craig will lend tremendous insight, visibility and credence to our company and services,” said Roy Berger, Medjet president and CEO. “We are delighted to have someone of Craig’s caliber and reputation in the hunting community to represent MedjetAssist.”

With a MedjetAssist membership, if a member is hospitalized more than 150 miles from home and continues to meet inpatient criteria at the receiving hospital- MedjetAssist will arrange medical transportation to the hospital of the member’s choice at no additional cost. .

“I am not afraid of the places I go to follow my passion for hunting or the unpredictable paths that take me there,” said Boddington. “I am not afraid of what I am hunting, what might be hunting me, or whatever lies in between. I travel with peace of mind, because I know Medjet will be there if I ever need them.”

Boddington continued, “I’ve been a Medjet member for over five years and my passion takes me to the ends of the earth. I’m not sure where you go, but make sure you have Medjet. I wouldn’t travel without it.”

One of the world’s most accomplished hunters, Boddington was born and raised in Kansas, where his big game hunting experience began at an early age. He attended the University of Kansas on an NROTC scholarship, graduating with an English degree and a regular commission in the United States Marine Corps. His outdoor writing career began during college and continued during his active duty. He has written more than 4,000 articles for national magazines, he has authored 21 books on hunting and shooting, and he is the host of the popular Tracks Across Africa television show.

Having been on more than 75 African safaris, Boddington’s list of hunting accomplishments is long. He is the only living journalist who has hunted Africa’s nine spiral-horned antelopes, and he’s the only one who has hunted Africa’s Big Five. He holds a number of other distinguished records and accolades in the hunting and shooting world.

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MedjetAssist was established in 1991 and is the premier medical evacuation and repatriation membership program for travelers. MedjetAssist has its corporate headquarters in Birmingham, AL, and was recently named the exclusive provider of worldwide air ambulance and medical repatriation services for AARP. For additional information, visit www.medjet.com.

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Birmingham, AL —-(AmmoLand.com)- MedjetAssist, the nation’s leading emergency medical evacuation and repatriation membership program, announced today that it has chosen Hunter Outdoor Communications to be its public relations agency of record for the outdoor, hunting and fishing markets. HOC, a public relations agency specializing in the outdoor, marine and hunting industries, is headquartered in San Antonio, TX, and it has an East Coast office in Richmond, VA. The appointment is effective September 1.

The public relations program will encompass the development and implementation of an aggressive communications program focusing on the company’s unique air medical transportation membership program and how it applies to the outdoor, fishing and hunting industries.

“We are very excited to be actively addressing the outdoor markets, as they are very important to us. We believe that HOC is the perfect company to bring Medjet and its membership services the recognition that it needs in these areas,” said Roy Berger, president and CEO, Medjet. “The team at Hunter Outdoor Communications has the experience and contacts necessary to make things happen very quickly. We have some big announcements coming that are very exciting for us. We are relying on them to get the word out.”

HOC will be working in conjunction with Medjet’s New York City – based travel and tourism marketing and public relations agency, Geoffrey Weill & Associates, to expand into the outdoor markets.

About MedjetAssist
MedjetAssist is the premier medical evacuation and repatriation membership program for travelers. If a member is hospitalized more than 150 miles from home—virtually anywhere in the world—MedjetAssist reviews his or her condition both with the attending medical staff and the member’s own physicians, and will arrange for medical transportation back to the hospital of his or her choice at no additional cost. MedjetAssist has it corporate headquarters in Birmingham, AL, and was recently named the exclusive provider of worldwide air ambulance and medical repatriation services for AARP. For additional information visit www.medjet.com.