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Medics support Ranger exercise

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Mark Lytle, 96th Medical Group chief vascular surgery, discusses the simulated patient’s medical treatment during the medical portion of the 6th Ranger Training Battalion’s mass casualty exercise at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, Feb. 5, 2020. The exercise tested the 96th MDG’s medical capabilities and rescue effort coordination with Eglin first responders and county rescue teams to a major accident on the Eglin range. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ilka Cole)
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23d MSS helps maintain optimal health

Airman Michael Mendenhall, delivers prescriptions to the ScriptCenter at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, Feb. 5, 2020. The pharmacy packages and furnishes more than 500 prescriptions daily to ensure beneficiaries receive medication needed to maintain optimal health. The ScriptCenter streamlines the main pharmacy refill process by dispensing medication to beneficiaries. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Azaria E. Foster)
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Aerospace nurse practitioner

Capt. Jessica Knizel, 96th Aerospace Medicine Squadron, became the first aerospace nurse practitioner in the Air Force in July 2019. She was the first of now 10 nurse practitioners to accept the new Air Force job code of 46Y1F. (U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King Jr.)
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Airmen PT

Airmen participate in a group fitness exercise. (Courtesy photo)
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Medical exercise

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Manuel Nunez, 96th Medical Group, evaluates a simulated wounded Soldier’s injuries during a mass casualty exercise at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, Feb. 5. The exercise tested the 96th MDG’s responses to receiving several simulated wounded soldiers from the Army’s 6th Ranger Training Battalion. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Karissa Rodriguez)
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Air Force partnership readies Airmen for infectious disease response

Bob Valentine (far left), The Center for the Sustainment of Trauma Readiness Skills Omaha administrator, manages and observes a simulated scenario as Maj. Kisha Wood, C-STARS deputy director, Lt. Col. Elizabeth Schnaubelt, C-STARS Omaha director, and Tech. Sgt. Victor Kipping, public health non-commissioned officer in charge, assess a simulated patient and communicate their course of action at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, Jan. 3, 2020. The U.S. Air Force’s C-STARS Omaha program, which was established in 2018, partners with The University of Nebraska Medical Center, focusing on advancing the training of medical Airmen in infectious diseases that they might see during deployment. (Courtesy photo)
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Air Force partnership readies Airmen for infectious disease response

(From left) Maj. Kisha Wood, The Center for the Sustainment of Trauma Readiness Skills Omaha deputy director, Tech. Sgt. Victor Kipping, public health non-commissioned officer in charge, Bob Valentine, C-STARS Omaha administrator, and Lt. Col. Elizabeth Schnaubelt, C-STARS Omaha director, pose for a photo in front of The University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, Jan. 3, 2020. The U.S. Air Force’s C-STARS Omaha program, which was established in 2018, partners with the University of Nebraska Medical Center, focusing on advancing the training of medical Airmen in infectious diseases they might see during deployment. (Courtesy photo)
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Air Force partnership readies Airmen for infectious disease response

(From left) Tech. Sgt. Victor Kipping, public health non-commissioned officer in charge, Maj. Kisha Wood, The Center for the Sustainment of Trauma Readiness Skills Omaha deputy director, and Lt. Col. Elizabeth Schnaubelt, C-STARS Omaha director, assemble the portable patient isolation device on Bob Valentine, C-STARS Omaha administrator, to prepare for transport at The University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, Jan. 3, 2020. The U.S. Air Force’s C-STARS Omaha program, which was established in 2018, partners with The University of Nebraska Medical Center, focusing on advancing the training of medical Airmen in infectious diseases that they might see during deployment. (Courtesy photo)
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Air Force partnership readies Airmen for infectious disease response

(From left) Lt. Col. Elizabeth Schnaubelt, The Center for the Sustainment of Trauma Readiness Skills Omaha director, Tech. Sgt. Victor Kipping, public health non-commissioned officer in charge, and Maj. Kisha Wood, C-STARS deputy director, demonstrate on Bob Valentine, C-STARS Omaha administrator, the proper techniques used to move the patient from the portable patient isolation device to the hospital bed at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, Jan. 3, 2020. The portable patient isolation device is used in the transportation of a potentially infectious patient. (Courtesy photo)
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Soldiers and Airmen assigned to West Virginia National Guard’s 35th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or Explosive Enhanced Response Force Packages put a mock patient through the decontamination process while participating in a response rehearsal at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington D.C., in preparation for the 2020 State of the Union Address, Feb. 3, 2020. The 35th CERF-P is a joint-force unit comprised of the 130th Airlift Wing’s CERF-P Detachment and Soldiers from the West Virginia Army National Guard, whose mission is to preposition at high-profile events in preparation to support civil authorities at domestic CBRNE incident sites. (U.S. Air National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Caleb Vance)
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Official Portrait

This is the official portrait of Colonel Ingrid D. Ford.
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Staff Sgt. Gerald Gatlin prepares serology samples in the immunodiagnostic section of the Epidemiology Laboratory Service, also known as the ‘Epi Lab,’ at the 711th Human Performance Wing’s United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and Public Health at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, Jan. 30, 2018. The immunodiagnostic section recently installed an automated testing unit, blue track on left, which is computer controlled to prepare samples and transfer them to the appropriate analyzer for STD screening, status-immune testing or other analyses. The system automatically reports results to Department of Defense clinics around the world, usually within 48 hours of a sample being shipped to the lab. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)
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Dr. Anthony Fries, a bioinformatics scientist, (left), and Dr. Paul Sjoberg, a program manager with the Department of Defense Global Respiratory Pathogen Surveillance Program at USAFSAM’s Epi Lab, discuss how the lab and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention monitor influenza to provide the U.S. Food and Drug Administration critical data for manufacturers of the flu vaccine in Episode 21 of AFRL’s “Lab Life” podcast, now available for download. (U.S. Air Force photo by Keith Lewis)
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180130-F-LW859-318

Between 5,000 and 8,000 blood serum, fecal, urine, viral and respiratory samples arrive six days a week from U.S. Air Force hospitals and clinics worldwide, as well as some other Department of Defense facilities, for analysis at the Epidemiology Laboratory Service, also known as the "Epi Lab" at the 711th Human Performance Wing’s United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and Public Health at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio.The lab is a Department of Defense reference laboratory offering clinical diagnostic, public health, and force health screening and testing. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)
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Lindsey White and Tiffany Miracle prepare serology samples to load into an automated analysis system in the immunodiagnostic section of the Epidemiology Laboratory Service, also known as the ‘Epi Lab,’ at the 711th Human Performance Wing’s United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and Public Health at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, Jan. 30, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)
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180130-F-LW859-264

A biohazard logo marks a bag containing one of the 5,000 to 8,000 blood serum, fecal, urine, viral and respiratory samples that arrive six days a week from U.S. Air Force hospitals and clinics worldwide, as well as some other Department of Defense facilities, for analysis at the Epidemiology Laboratory Service, also known as the "Epi Lab" at the 711th Human Performance Wing’s United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and Public Health at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio.The lab is a Department of Defense reference laboratory offering clinical diagnostic, public health, and force health screening and testing. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)
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Catherine Teti, medical laboratory technician in USAFSAM's public health and preventive medicine department, analyzes specimens in the Epidemiology Lab. (U.S. Air Force photo by Richard Eldridge)
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Public Health maintains Airmen medical readiness

Staff Sgt. Joseph Deguino, 56th Operational Medicine Readiness Squadron Public Health communicable disease noncommissioned officer in charge, uses a thermometer to check a meal’s temperature during a monthly inspection Jan. 27, 2020, in Club 5/6 at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. The food’s temperature has to stay between 41-135 degrees for four hours or less to keep it from spoiling. Public health helps keep Airmen healthy, ready to train and deploy by inspecting facilities for food quality, performing audiograms and more. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class by Brooke Moeder)
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Public Health maintains Airmen medical readiness

Staff Sgt. Joseph Deguino, 56th Operational Medicine Readiness Squadron Public Health communicable disease noncommissioned officer in charge, checks the expiration date on a canned good during a monthly inspection Jan. 27, 2020, in Club 5/6 at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. While inspecting facilities, Deguino looks for expiration dates and ensures the food is properly covered. Public health helps keep Airmen healthy, ready to train and deploy by inspecting facilities for food quality, performing audiograms and more. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class by Brooke Moeder)
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Public Health maintains Airmen medical readiness

Airman 1st Class Hannah Rios, 56th Operational Medicine Readiness Squadron Public Health technician, receives her annual audiogram test Jan. 28, 2020, at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. Specialists perform audiograms annually for Airmen who are exposed to loud noises for a long period of time. The Occupational health section performs more than 30 audiograms each day. Public health helps keep Airmen healthy, ready to train and deploy by inspecting facilities for food quality, performing audiograms and more. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Brooke Moeder)
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