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  • New video outreach message encourages veterans to use benefits

    Television viewers across the country will be able to see a new video advertisement promoting the "care package" of services offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs to veterans. The 30-second ad makes its national debut Nov. 10 during the broadcast of the Country Music Awards."VA offers a

  • Disabled veterans worker has 'been there'

    Naomi Kraima empathizes with the veterans she assists daily. She's "been there."Ms. Kraima, Disabled American Veterans transition services officer, meets with veterans at the office she shares with the Airman and Family Readiness Center at the Sablich Center. The "vets" she works with have served in

  • DOD center tracks health, illness in U.S. forces

    A new Defense Department agency employs combined medical expertise to track health, illness and injury across the military services, the center director said.Army Col. (Dr.) Robert F. DeFraites heads the Maryland-based American Forces Health Surveillance Center, which serves servicemembers, family

  • Nurse finds calling serving wounded warriors

    Donna Anderson has been a nurse since 1989. When she became Keesler's wounded warrior program manager two years ago, she found her true calling."It's so rewarding to be able to serve," said Ms. Anderson, who came to Keesler 19 years ago. "That's what I became a nurse for -- that's what it's all

  • TRICARE provides answers to behavioral health questions

    Whether it's "butterflies in the stomach" or a quickened heartbeat, most people feel anxious at some time or another. While it's normal to worry or feel nervous before public speaking or an important event, or with unexpected news, some people constantly feel on edge and panicky. Similarly, sadness

  • VA officials test programs to expedite payments to disabled veterans

    Department of Veterans Affairs officials launched two pilot programs to test new procedures that will speed the payment of VA compensation benefits to veterans with disabilities connected to their military service. These new programs are part of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki's

  • Air Force officials seek Warrior Games participants

    Air Force officials are seeking 25 warriors to compete in the 2011 Warrior Games, an Olympic-style competition open to wounded, ill and injured military members and veterans.The Warrior Games were developed through the partnership between the United States Olympic Committee and the Defense

  • DOD officials establish wounded warrior task force

    Officials from the office of the undersecretary of Defense for personnel and readiness have announced the names of 14 members who will serve on the Department of Defense Task Force for Care, Management, and Transition of Recovering Wounded, Ill, and Injured servicemembers.The four-year mission of

  • Former commander in chief pays tribute to wounded warriors during visit

    Some 1,500 people, including eight wounded warriors along with families of military members killed in action in the past 10 years, welcomed former President George W. Bush when he took the stage inside the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Nov. 11. It marked President Bush's third visit to the

  • Air Force commercial showcases med evac Airmen

    An Air Force commercial highlighting the roles men and women play in Air Force humanitarian relief efforts begins airing in television markets and select movie theaters across the country this month."Med Evac" highlights the Air Force's critical aeromedical evacuation mission during disaster relief

  • 7 Keesler nurses selected for AFMS education programs

    Col. Allison Plunk, 81st Medical Group chief nurse, announced Oct. 22 seven group nurses have been selected for Air Force Medical Service Developmental Education Programs.They are: 2nd Lt. Jennifer Danielson , critical care trauma nursing fellowship; Capt. Steven Gautreaux, master's degree in

  • Program easing medical separation rolls out forcewide

    A pilot program that eases medical separation and speeds benefit payments for servicemembers too wounded, sick or injured to stay in the military will soon roll out to the entire force. "We are proud that the disability evaluation system is making progress," a senior defense official said this week.

  • Joint forces unite for high-altitude training

    "All right, now go ahead and start counting down from 100 by threes," said Senior Airman Jeylyn Capdevilla, a 20th Aerospace Medicine Squadron operations and aerospace physiology technician, while directing the high-altitude simulation from outside the large air chamber."100, 19, 97, 94, 87, 77,"

  • Glue used in partial cornea transplant

    An ophthalmologist here recently performed a very unique procedure to restore a patient's vision. Lt. Col. (Dr.) Charles Reilly completed a partial cornea transplant using a type of glue to correct a thinning cornea."The patient had a full corneal transplant in the 1980's due to Keratoconus

  • Airmen assist in transfer of patients to new Misawa City Hospital

    Members of the 35th Medical Group here teamed up with the Misawa City Fire Department and Japan Air Self-Defense Force to transfer Misawa City Hospital patients to a new downtown treatment facility Nov. 5.During the transfer, more than 80 patients, 15 of whom were critical care patients, were

  • An extraordinary partnership, forged by the bonds of survival

    At first glance, Bill McPherson appears to be a simple, outgoing, southern Colorado community leader with a deep appreciation for local military members.But it's only after you get to know this highly-decorated Army veteran, who retired as a colonel after 30 years of service, and his story of being