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  • Medical Airmen move wounded warriors, provide closure

    Usually when a wounded Airman, Soldier, Sailor or Marine or Airman leaves the combat theater, they leave on a stretcher, surrounded by the beeps and hum of machines reading and reporting vital signs. Sometimes they are conscious, but all too often they are not -- suddenly waking in a hospital

  • U.S., Panama exercise interoperability, deliver medical assistance

    A multilateral team of U.S., Honduran and Panamanian military members and civilians joined forces to exercise Joint Task Force-Bravo's ability to conduct expeditionary medical operations and provide medical care for more than 1,200 patients in two villages Feb. 28-March 1, during the first Medical

  • CASF: Sustainment care until wheels up

    Being deployed makes things a bit more difficult and challenging than at home station. One of those challenges is the sustainment of healthcare from the battlefield to a treatment facility.To help ensure that transition is smooth, the 651st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron Contingency

  • First Afghan Air Force C-208 CASEVAC a success

    In another historic step for the Afghan Air Force, an AAF Cessna 208 configured for battlefield casualty evacuation successfully transported a seriously injured solider and three minor casualties from Kandahar, Afghanistan to Kabul International Airport Feb. 11. The Afghan-tasked, planned and led

  • Air Force Medical Service 2012 Annual Award winners announced

    It is with great pride that the Air Force Surgeon General's Medical Force Development Directorate announces the winners of the Air Force Medical Service Annual Award competition. The competition included individual and team awards, based on criteria outlined in AFI 36-2856, Medical Service Awards.

  • 379th EAES shows off capabilities to CC

    The 379th Air Expeditionary Wing commander, vice commander and command chief participated in a mock 379th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron engines running on-load mission during a unit visit Dec. 4.The 379th EAES provides intra- and intertheater aeromedical evacuation for service

  • 379th AEW MFST team ready to project medical support downrange

    Their motto is, "We cut, you live." They are light, lean and life-saving. The 379th Expeditionary Medical Group Multiple Field Surgical Team, a small and intensely trained team of combat medics, is ready at a moment's notice to save lives across the Central Command's area of responsibility.The

  • U.S. mission highlights critical lifesaving skills in Ethiopia

    The Defense Institute for Medical Operations deployed a team of experts with a variety of critical care medical backgrounds to teach a Critical Life Saving Course for First Responders in Ethiopia this summer.DIMO, a dual service agency composed of Air Force and Navy service members, provides health

  • Preventive Dentistry Essential Worldwide

    As Americans, we often take for granted the simple luxuries we are fortunate to have not readily available around the world. Our country affords us access to clean running water and bathrooms inside our homes. Imagine for a second not having clean water or running water in the comfort of your own

  • Through Airmen's Eyes: Saving children, winning smiles

    (This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series on AF.mil. These stories focus on a single Airman, highlighting their Air Force story.)With a mission to win hearts and minds through pediatrics, he deployed from the 509th Medical Operations Squadron to Afghanistan Dec. 2011 to June

  • New Medical Clinic Opens Doors Strengthening U.S. Kyrgyz Partnership

    Service members from the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, in partnership with representatives from the U.S. Embassy Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic Ministry of Health and residents of the Nizhne-Chuysk Village gathered on Nov. 15, to celebrate the grand opening of the village's new medical clinic. The

  • AF, China's PLA physicians gather for first-ever acupuncture exchange

    At the invitation of China's People Liberation Army, Air Force medical physicians, along-side their Chinese military and civilian counterparts, conducted the first-ever Medical Acupuncture and Battlefield Medicine Subject Matter Expert Exchange in Beijing, China, on Oct. 21-27. The exchange,

  • Hungary-based Airmen write new chapter in multinational operations

    At this small, bare-bones, communist-era airfield located in the Hungarian countryside, midpoint between Budapest and Vienna, American Airmen are writing a dynamic new chapter in multinational cooperation and flight operations. Airmen assigned to the Heavy Airlift Wing at Papa Air Base, Hungary,

  • US, Nepal build relationships, improve lives

    A multinational team led by U.S., Nepalese, and Australian military members and civilians treated more than 4,100 villagers, repaired and renovated three schools, and shared expertise Sept. 10-15, during Operation Pacific Angel 12-4 in Nepal.The first Pacific Angel mission in Nepal featured free

  • Afghanistan Health Reconstruction Course introduced into PRT training

    Sustainability and self-sufficiency is the goal for the new Afghanistan Health Sector Reconstruction Course being introduced into all provincial reconstruction team training."We have taken what some would have considered a boring lecture series, expanded it and morphed it into a highly dynamic,

  • North Carolina ANG, Botswana defense force find common ground

    The C-130 Hercules is a versatile aircraft that serves several different roles depending on the need and location.In addition to missions like transport, airdrop, airlift support, resupply and natural disaster relief, the C-130 can also be configured for aeromedical evacuation missions.As part of