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  • 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

  • Expeditionary Medical Support training a first at JB Elmendorf-Richardson

    Eighty-one Airmen from around the Pacific Air Forces participated in the first Expeditionary Medical Support Training here Aug. 9 through 13.The course, typically held at Brooks City Base, San Antonio, is a mandatory pre-deployment requirement, where participants are taught what is expected of them

  • CMSAF shares perspective about readiness, development, resiliency

    The Air Force's top NCO spoke at the Air Force Sergeants Association Professional Airmen's Conference Aug. 17, citing readiness, deliberate development and resiliency among Airmen and their families as his main focuses.Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Roy said statistics of 40,000 Airmen

  • AF surgeon general issues warning about safety of electronic cigarettes.

    The Air Force surgeon general has issued a memo alerting all Airmen about safety concerns regarding electronic cigarettes, a new type of nicotine product.Also known as "e-cigs," electronic cigarettes are battery-operated devices that look like conventional cigarettes. The e-cig contains a cartridge

  • A year later, H1N1 flu and your summer travel plans

    Last summer, talk of the H1N1 flu virus dominated the news. It was described by World Health Organization officials as the first pandemic of the 21st century. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that between 7,880 and 16,460 H1N1-related deaths occurred between April 1 and Dec.

  • Therapeutic horseback riding helps battle PTSD

    J.B. Barnett was a high school athlete who could have had a bright future in football. Capt. Mike Lawlor was a military personnelist assigned to convoy duties in Afghanistan.Although the two seem different, they both now have something in common. After J.B. suffered brain damage and subsequent

  • VA officials announce test of paperless claims processing system

    Department of Veterans Affairs officials have selected their regional benefits office in Providence, R.I., to test a paperless system and new procedures to improve processing of veterans' claims for disability compensation."This test program marks a major milestone in VA's move to paperless

  • Dentists complete Keesler training

    Ten dentists were honored during an Aug. 3 graduation ceremony in the 81st Medical Group Hospital's Don Wylie auditorium.Advanced Education in General Dentistry graduates and their new assignments are Capts. (Drs.) Joshua Breding (Beale Air Force Base, Calif.), Cynthia Dominessy (Incirlik Air Base,

  • EMEDS team trains for emergency response

    Air Force medical personnel honed their skills last month in a massive joint forces field training exercise simulating a terrorist attack in the United States.The 10-day exercise, held at Camp Atterbury, Ind., allowed service members to war game the scenario and know their specific duties in case a

  • 193rd Medical Group lives “E malama kakou” spirit

    E malama kakou is Hawaiian for "to care for all," and that is exactly what 28 Airmen of the 193rd Special Operations Wing's Medical Group did the moment they arrived in Hilo, Hawaii, June 10. As part of the Hawaii Medical Innovative Readiness Training program, members of the 193rd Medical Group