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  • CAIB, IDS improve Air Force quality of life

    Two important groups continually work to improve the Air Force quality of life. They are the Community Action Information Boards and Integrated Delivery Systems, which operate at Air Force, major command and installation levels.The CAIB focuses on identifying and resolving issues impacting Air Force

  • Luke doctor becomes world champion, sets world record

    One of Luke Air Force Base's own, Maj. Shawn Baker, 56th Medical Group orthopedics, took home the title of world champion and set a new world record during the 2010 Masters World Championship of the Scottish Masters Athletics International Aug. 14 in Denver."The Highland Games have been around since

  • Ramstein Combat Medic serves critical role on PRT

    One Ramstein Airman recently helped provide refresher training for his teammates on the Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team at Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan.Along with Master Sgt. Simon Deyell, PRT noncommissioned officer in charge of medical operations and senior combat medic,

  • Hero's Highway receives New Dawn upgrade

    At midnight on the cusp between Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, 2010, Operation Iraqi Freedom ended and New Dawn began. Combat operations transitioned to an advisory and training role, and another page of history was completed.At 7 a.m. on Sept. 1, members of the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group Color Guard

  • Response team motivates Airmen

    Issues associated with the mental health clinic are often thought of as taboo. Therefore, people may not openly talk about their feelings or fears. However, the 354th Medical Group mental health clinic is bringing awareness to Eielson Air Force Base through the Traumatic Stress Response team about

  • Direct communication between Airmen key to suicide prevention

    More than a decade in the making, the culture of the "wingman" approach to suicide prevention is still evolving as risk factors and causes of suicide are becoming more widely understood. The wingman concept should be very familiar to most Airmen. Suicide prevention training has been incorporated

  • Airmen rescue two passengers in car accident

    Three members of the Keesler community recently played a key role in saving the lives of two victims of a vehicle accident in Louisiana. Airman 1st Class Anna Martin, 81st Logistics Readiness Squadron, was driving her vehicle along Interstate 310 near her hometown of Luling, La., the night of July

  • Air Force combat medics serve critical role on PRT

    Master Sgt. Simon Deyell stands in front of about 15 Soldiers and Airmen and tells a story of when he was on a dismounted patrol and some Afghans brought him a young boy with his head and shoulders covered in blood. When Sergeant Deyell cleaned the blood off, he discovered the cause of the bleeding

  • Aeromedical Consultation Service Keeping Aircrews Flight Ready

    A continual challenge facing the Air Force is finding the right personnel to fly its aircraft. Equally challenging is keeping aircrews at ready-to-fly status once they are selected and trained. A host of circumstances can crop up to ground aircrew members, and every time this happens, the Air Force

  • 633rd MDG keeps an 'eye' on cataracts

    August is Cataract Awareness Month, and the 633rd Medical Group here is striving to ensure Airmen and their families know the scoop on cataracts.A cataract is a clouding of the lens, the part of the eye that focuses light and produces clear images. Inside the eye, the lens is contained in a capsule.

  • Operation Pacific Angel-Sri Lanka concludes

    Representatives from the United States, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and Mongolia concluded Operation Pacific Angel-Sri Lanka here after providing humanitarian civil engineering and medical aid to people living in the Anuradhapura and Puttalam communities, Aug. 14 through 22.Pacific Angel-Sri Lanka

  • Mental health clinic works to help Airmen, families

    Members of the 673rd Medical Group Mental Health Flight here have been working hard to meet the mental healthcare needs of military members and their families.The military life can be a stressful one, said Maj. Alexsa Billups, a member of the 673rd MDG. "It's up to the individual people to come to

  • Ask the question

    When Tech. Sgt. David Bales got the call that an Airman he supervised was drunk and talking about "ending it all," he immediately drove to the dormitory. He'd been around too many successful and attempted suicides to just attribute "ending it all" to a case of drunken rambling. As an intelligence

  • Squadron leader recounts year in Afghanistan

    Col. Susan Bassett's year in Afghanistan may have seemed like a trip back in time.Colonel Bassett, who assumed command of the 81st Inpatient Operations Squadron July 1, served in the southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar from January-December 2008, assigned to an embedded medical hospital

  • Life is precious

    Two weeks ago, I began a journey leading the 4th Space Operations Squadron through a tragedy. This was not something I ever wanted to do, but there were many lessons learned for me, our squadron, and, I hope, for all of you reading this commentary. On July 19, I was informed that one of my squadron

  • Rescue squadron, Craig Joint Theater Hospital team up for MASCAL exercise

    Pop Warner, a famous football player and coach, is credited with saying, "You play like you practice." If so, the lifesaving Airmen assigned to the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing have a good shot at going undefeated.A realistic mass casualty exercise held here Saturday on a remote part of Bagram

  • Sheppard graduates last HSMA course

    The last Health Services Management Apprentice course students graduated Aug. 17 in Bldg. 1900 large auditorium, signifying the end of the course's era at Sheppard.The 882nd Training Group's HSMA course is moving to the Medical Enlisted Training Campus at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.

  • Physician mentors Afghan doctors

    Maj. (Dr.) Robert Sarlay Jr. has become fond of a quote by T.E. Lawrence: "Better the Arab do it tolerably than you do it perfectly." Not that he considers himself a modern-day Lawrence of Arabia. Ordinarily, Dr. Sarlay is a man of less exotic tastes. When he's not practicing emergency medicine at