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Bridging medicine, policy, community: Air Force psychologist pursues legislative path

While deployed with the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, U.S. Air Force Maj. Mahogany L. Swanson, Chief of Medical, Religious & USAFA Programs, attends a joint event arranged by the mental health and chaplain team to honor veterans who have taken their lives, March 2024. (Courtesy photo from U.S. Air Force Maj. Mahogany L. Swanson)
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Bring Them Home: USAFSAM trains teams to treat, transport COVID-19 patients

Staff Sgt. Lee Nembhard, an aeromedical evacuation technician assigned to the 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron from Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, straps a simulated Ebola patient to a litter during a Transport Isolation System training exercise at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, October 23, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Megan Munoz)
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Bring Them Home: USAFSAM trains teams to treat, transport COVID-19 patients

Staff Sgt. Lee Nembhard, an aeromedical evacuation technician assigned to the 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron from Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, straps a simulated Ebola patient to a litter during a Transport Isolation System training exercise at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, October 23, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Cody Miller)
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Bring Them Home: USAFSAM trains teams to treat, transport COVID-19 patients

Staff Sgt. Laura Mendoza dons her personal protection equipment during transportation isolation system training at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, March 5, 2019. Mendoza is a respiratory therapist from the 60th Surgical Operations Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, California. Engineered and implemented after the Ebola virus outbreak in 2014, the TIS is an enclosure the Department of Defense can use to safely transport patients with highly contagious diseases. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Cody R. Miller)
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Bringing the bite to the fight

A prosthodontic team, 355th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron, performs surgery at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., Feb. 9, 2023. A prosthodontic team includes a prosthodontist and their assistant. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jhade Herrera)
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Building resilience, community: DAF Mental Health Overview raises awareness of available care

A group of Operational Support Team providers review the targeted health care vectoring process included in the Mental Health Overview at a mental health clinic, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, February 2025. (Courtesy photo from U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Eric Meyer)
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Building resilience, community: DAF Mental Health Overview raises awareness of available care

U.S. Air Force medics greet cars driving into Keesler Air Force Base with words of encouragement for Suicide Prevention Month, Biloxi, Mississippi, September 2025. (Courtesy photo from U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Elisha Pippin)
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Bushwhacker 19-08

A U.S. Air Force Pararescueman from the 48th Rescue Squadron draws blood from another Airman during a walking blood bank demonstration at Dynamic Forward Adaptive Base-Rescue during Exercise Bushwhacker 19-08 on Fort Huachuca, Arizona, Nov. 5, 2019. While operating at DFAB-R, rescue Airmen took time to demonstrate the importance of a walking blood bank to those wounded in an austere and contested environment. This exercise enabled Davis-Monthan Air Force Base to lead the Air Force in dynamic force employment, which is now a critical requirement for mission success. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Cheyenne A. Powers)
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C-130 mainstay of medevac

Red Cross equipment, supplies and transportable hospitals are stockpiled into C-130 Hercules aircraft at Kitzingen Air Base, Germany, September 1970. The aircraft were flying to Jordan as part of Operation Fig Hill, providing disaster relief and medical support during civil strife. C-130 aircraft have always been able to navigate austere and, at times, hostile airfields to meet a wide variety of aeromedical evacuation missions. (Courtesy photo)
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C-130 mainstay of medevac

A hospital bus backs up to a C-130 Hercules aircraft to transport victims of the Pines Hotel fire to the regional medical center, Clark Air Base, Philippines, Oct. 23, 1984. (Courtesy photo)
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C-130 mainstay of medevac

Flight Nurse and Aeromedical Technician Course students care for a simulated patient during a simulated aeromedical evacuation mission aboard a C-130H mockup at the 711th Human Performance Wing’s U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Jan. 29, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)
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C-130 mainstay of medevac

Archive photo of the YC-130 Hercules during its maiden flight from Burbank to Edwards Air Force Base, California, Aug. 23, 1954. The need for the C-130 came from the Air Force’s Tactical Air Command during 1951 to fill a void for medium-cargo tactical transport. The C-130 is still in production today, making it the longest running military aircraft production line in history. For much of its operational history, the C-130 and its variants have been a critical aeromedical evacuation platform for the U.S. Air Force, safely moving patients long distances and allowing AE crews to deliver care in the air. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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C-130 over Haiti

A C-130 Hercules aircraft makes a final approach into Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 16, 2010, part of the relief effort that delivered critical medical personnel and supplies after the area was hit by a 7.0 earthquake. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Perry Aston)
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C-130s to the rescue

Col. Diane Fletcher speaks with a patient over the noise of an inflight C-130 Hercules Oct. 14, 2007 in Southwest Asia. Fletcher is deployed from Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Douglas Olsen)
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C-141 Evac

Members of the 2nd Aeromedical Evacuation Airlift Squadron from Rhein-Main Air Base, load patients, who were victims of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, onto a C-141B Starlifter aircraft after an overnight stay at the Army Regional Medical Center at Landstuhl by Tech. Sgt. Gary Tomoyasu. (Courtesy of DOD)
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C-17s over Charleston

A U.S. Air Force C-17 from Joint Base Charleston banks over the Arthur J. Ravenel Bridge above downtown Charleston during a training mission, May 16, 2006. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Russell E. Cooley IV)
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C-47

Planes carrying wounded soldiers prepare to take off from a landing strip in France. Notice the black and white stripes on the wings, known as “D-Day Stripes.” They were painted on all tactical aircraft after June 6, 1944 to prevent friendly fire incidents.
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C-9A Nightingale Welcome

Capt. Debra A. Casalaspro, 2nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron flight nurse, welcomes patients aboard a C-9A Nightingale aircraft by SSgt Fernando Serna (DF-ST-87-06956)
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Cadet earns leadership award, scholarship to attend medical school

Cadet 1st Class Sirri Akaya poses outside Fairchild Hall, Jan. 31, 2022. She recently won the Black Engineer of the Year Award for Military Student Leadership. The U.S. Air Force Academy senior plans to attend medical school next year. (U.S. Air Force photo by Justin Pacheco)
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Cadet earns leadership award, scholarship to attend medical school

Cadet 1st Class Sirri Akaya, winner of the Black Engineer of the Year Award for Military Student Leadership, examines a specimen in the biology lab at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Jan. 31, 2023. (U.S. Air Force photo by Justin Pacheco)
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