June 4, 2012 Military Surgeons General visit the Medical Education & Training Campus For the three military surgeons general to be in the same country at the same time is unusual. For all three to be in the same room at the same time is a rare event. Instructors and staff of the Medical Education & Training Campus (METC) received an extraordinary opportunity when Lt. Gen. Charles
June 4, 2012 Colonel Miniotis retires after 30 years of service The 81st Medical Group honored Col. (Dr.) Nicholas Miniotis for completing 30 years of Air Force service during a formal retirement ceremony May 10 at the Keesler Marina indoor pavilion. Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Kory Cornum, 81st MDG commander, officiated.Miniotis has commanded the 81st Dental Squadron
May 9, 2012 Final touches made to new AF dental school and clinic Workers lay the final touches and work to complete the landscape at the new Air Force Post Graduate Dental School and Clinic at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, May 3, 2012. The building is a $38 million project that began in 2010 and has now opened its doors to start receiving patients.
May 3, 2012 Keesler dentist wins award at 'Hinman' meeting A member of the 81st Dental Squadron Advanced Education in General Dentistry one-year residency program was recognized at the prestigious Thomas P. Hinman Dental Meeting March 22-24 in Atlanta, the program's 100th anniversary.Capt. (Dr.) Thomas Heidenreich, who received his dental degree from the
May 2, 2012 Pacific Angel med team gets real-life trauma care education With a swing of the axe, Neng Yong Ya's life took a dramatic turn for the worse. The 30-year old Lao farmer was at work, April 24, trying to remove a tree stump from a field when a Vietnam-era unexploded ordnance blew up. The force of the blast threw him, and caused trauma to his chest and stomach.
April 19, 2012 Developing ways to strengthen family health, well-being Military families face some unique challenges. They experience specific stressors that can place them at risk for maltreatment of one another.Those stressors include isolation from extended family, deployments and high levels of job stress.However, families can implement and establish protective
April 6, 2012 MRI machine boosts Bagram patient care A magnetic resonance imaging machine approved and funded by the U.S. Congress was delivered to Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, October 2011. The machine was placed at Bagram to assist in the rapid assessment of neurological injuries and to allow for research in the
March 6, 2012 Air Force expands drug testing program to include abused prescription drugs The Air Force and other military services will expand their drug testing to include testing for commonly abused prescription drugs beginning May 1, 2012.On Jan. 31, 2012, the Secretary of Defense gave a 90-day advance notice of the drug testing expansion which aims to counter the nation's growing
Feb. 15, 2012 Air Force Medical Service turns to secure messaging Patients at Air Force medical treatment facilities will soon be able to communicate securely and privately with their health care teams anywhere and anytime due to the Air Force-wide expansion of secure messaging.Secure messaging will be available to patients through what is known as the MiCare
Feb. 13, 2012 First Lady samples food transformation initiative at Little Rock First Lady Michelle Obama visited the Hercules Dining Facility here Feb. 9 to survey the food transformation initiative program on base. The visit was part of a three-day tour by the First Lady commemorating the second anniversary of her "Let's Move!" program designed to combat childhood obesity.In
Feb. 13, 2012 Keesler Airman selected to perform with 'Tops in Blue' Senior Airman Emmanuel Maldonado-Rosario is following a family tradition of Air Force service among the family's eight children, with one exception -- he's the only one to have been selected to become a member of the service's "Tops in Blue" entertainment group.Maldonado-Rosario, a dental technician
Feb. 13, 2012 Dental squadron urges early care for baby teeth It is important to establish what the dental community calls a "dental home."When children start practicing good oral hygiene habits at an early age, they will need less expensive dental care and can prevent avoidable emergency situations in the future. A "dental home" starts with routine,
Feb. 9, 2012 SECDEF visits Air Force wounded warrior care facility The Secretary of Defense visited Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Feb. 3, to show his appreciation for the dedicated and hard-working service members who ensure wounded warriors receive world-class care.Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta started his visit at the Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility
Jan. 31, 2012 Air Force, Navy officers help develop Afghan hospital project A major step forward for Afghans living near Shindand Air Base, Afghanistan, occurred Jan. 28 during the groundbreaking for a new hospital. The $5 million commander's emergency response program has an estimated completion timeframe of nine months. Air Force Maj. Wesley Morris, a comptroller adviser
Jan. 31, 2012 Airman injured at Kandahar awarded Purple Heart In Kandahar, Afghanistan, where East meets West in a struggle to defeat the Taliban lies an air base that's home to 30,000 servicemembers tasked with the job to assist NATO and Afghan nationals in gaining and maintaining security.During 2011 alone, more than 400 U.S. servicemembers died and more
Jan. 26, 2012 AF Surgeon General visits with 86th MDG, talks mission focus Lt. Gen. Charles B. Green, Air Force Surgeon General, and Chief Master Sgt. Charles Cole, Chief of Medical Enlisted Force, visited the 86th Medical Group at Ramstein Monday.During their visit, Green and Cole spoke with Airmen and toured various offices within the 86th MDG and saw first-hand their
Jan. 26, 2012 Keesler medic chief retires after 30 years Chief Master Sgt. Debra Strickland ends her 30-year Air Force career during a formal retirement ceremony at 2:30 p.m. Jan. 26 in the Keesler Hospital Don Wylie Auditorium. Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Dan Wyman, Air Combat Command command surgeon, will officiate.Chief Strickland is 81st Surgical Operations
Jan. 10, 2012 METC Command Chief selected as new Chief, Medical Enlisted Force Friday, January 6 could not have been a more perfect day for Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Kevin Lambing, command chief of the Medical Education & Training Campus (METC). That day Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Charles B. Green, the Air Force Surgeon General, confirmed Lambing will be the new Chief of the Medical
Jan. 10, 2012 Air Force dentist plays vital role in remote Afghanistan In a remote valley of war torn Afghanistan, a Joint Base Charleston Airman is playing a vital role enhancing the country's practice of dentistry.Major Courtney Schapira, from the 628th Medical Group at JB Charleston - Air Base, is currently assigned to the Medical Embedded Training Team at Forward
Jan. 9, 2012 Star spangled comfort: Wilford Hall displays Hero's Highway Flag 59th Medical Wing leaders conducted a ceremony at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center Jan. 5, 2012, to officially hang a Hero's Highway Flag.And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!These words, the final two lines of the last verse of