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  • Air Force nurse earns confidences of native Alaskan patients

    A joint medical team recently deployed to a remote village in northern Alaska where earning trust is often the first step to getting patients through the door.According to Maj. Emily Cerreta, a traditional reservist assigned to the 433rd Airlift Wing at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, the fact that

  • MEDEVAC unit provides care for America's heroes in AOR

    The 379th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron members consider their patients the best in the world; patients who serve with honor and pride. These medical evacuation Airmen are prepared to fly anywhere in the area of responsibility to ensure their esteemed patients, America's wounded

  • Capital-area medical centers set for reorganization

    With a reorganization of units overseeing military medicine in the national capital area under way, interim steps are in place to maintain good care and emergency preparedness during the transition.As part of a Base Realignment and Closure Commission action announced in 2007, Walter Reed Army

  • No one escapes the 'Shot Lady'

    It's a Saturday afternoon during the Air Force Reserve's 920th Rescue Wing drill weekend and the clinic is buzzing with activity. Servicemembers waiting for flight physicals pass the time chatting while others choke down copious amounts of water in preparation for their random-drug tests.A

  • Airmen aid wounded warriors

    Under the charge of 379th Air Expeditionary Wing Top 3 organization affiliates, base members here helped ease the stress of other servicemembers while recuperating from injury or passing through on their way home to an emergency situation.During a two-week clothing drive, organization members

  • Better prosthetics coming for wounded warriors

    From developing a new microprocessor-controlled prosthetic leg to a non-chafing socket device, the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center here is making big strides in advancing prosthetic science to improve wounded warriors' quality of life.The center reaches out to a broad spectrum

  • Caring for People Forum wraps up

    The 2010 Caring for People Forum concluded here April 21 with the presentation of a list of proposed initiatives from attendees focused on a range of issues affecting Airmen and their families.Approximately 250 active-duty, Guard and Reserve Airmen and civilians gathered for this second annual

  • AMC's ops hub adjusts flights due to volcanic activity

    Air Mobility Command operations in and around Europe have been adjusted as a large cloud of volcanic ash continues to impact flight operations across much of the continent, according to AMC officials.The 618th Tanker Airlift Control Center, AMC's planning and execution hub at Scott Air Force Base,

  • Balad AFTH becomes divert base for wounded OEF troops

    Senior U.S. Air Forces Central Command medical officers have temporarily named Joint Base Balad as the new hub for all aeromedical evacuations following worldwide air travel disruptions caused by thick black ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruptions. The Air Force Theater Hospital

  • Volcanic ash impacts airspace at Ramstein

    Due to volcanic activity in Iceland, all air travel between Germany and the United States has been cancelled by European air authorities, to include flights in and out of Ramstein Air Base. Though the airfield here remains open, the airspace closure impacts military air travel to and from Ramstein.

  • Military's top doctors discuss centers of excellence

    The military's top doctors were on Capitol Hill April 13 to give their assessment of the Defense Department's Medical Centers of Excellence, four hospital centers they say are on their way to becoming the best in the world for research and treatment.Dr. Charles L. Rice, assistant secretary of

  • Answering the call at home and abroad

    For some military members, the call to duty is only surpassed by the call to help others. For Air Force reservist and 920th Rescue Wing member Tech. Sgt. Corey Hellmann, it's his motivation and mission in life.When he isn't providing respiratory therapy at his civilian job in a level-one trauma

  • Airmen keep servicemembers healthy through preventative measures

    Every day thousands of Airmen, Sailors, Soldiers and contractors walk through the doors of Dining Facility Two here to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. They can do this without worrying if the food they are consuming is safe to eat, because of the efforts of the 332nd Expeditionary Aerospace Medical

  • Chilean, Air Force medical teams share knowledge, experience

    Air Force and Chilean medics are transitioning duties while sharing knowledge at the emergency medical support hospital here March 22.In its first 10 days of operation, Chilean and Air Force medics worked side-by-side to treat more than 130 patients and perform 16 surgeries. For many of the Airmen

  • U.S. military officials contribute to Kyrgyz deworming conference

    Three U.S. military medical experts including two colonels from the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, attended a conference here on mass deworming April 2 to contribute American health care concepts to the health program this country's medical representatives have successfully started and plan to

  • Blood platelet donations vital in deployed environment

    When a servicemember is critically injured in Iraq or Afghanistan and in need of a blood transfusion, it is the responsibility of technicians in the 932nd Blood Support Detachment here to ensure units of blood platelets are collected and shipped out to the caretakers tending to the wounded. Medical

  • Medical staff removes UXO from patient at Bagram Airfield

    March 18, 2010, became an anything but normal day for the trauma team at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital here when they were called upon to remove unexploded ordnance from a patient's scalp.The patient, an Afghan National Army soldier, was involved in an improvised explosive device attack and had a

  • Airmen medically treat, evacuate 46 Afghans in mass casualty incident

    Airmen here responded to a mass casualty incident in Helmand Province March 31 following an improvised explosive device explosion at a local market in Nahr-e Saraj.Shortly after 9 a.m. early reports indicated a large explosion occurred, resulting in a high number of casualties and within 10 minutes

  • Spice: The ticket out

    I am writing this article, which it hurts to have to write.Since my arrival two months ago, we have been fighting drug use issues on Hill Air Force Base.This week we sent the first of the many soon-to-come Airmen out of the Air Force and off the installation as a civilian for the use of spice. This