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Final approach

A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III from Joint Base Charleston makes its final approach to Rinas Airport in Albania during operation SHINING HOPE, April 23, 1999. Medical Airmen provided humanitarian support for ethnic Albanian refugees fleeing Kosovo. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Cesar Rodriguez)
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Final approach

A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III from Joint Base Charleston makes its final approach to Rinas Airport in Albania during Operation Shining Hope, April 23, 1999. Medical Airmen provided humanitarian support for ethnic Albanian refugees fleeing Kosovo (U.S. Air Force illustration by Tech. Sgt. Cesar Rodriguez)
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First AF’s 64th AEG Airmen support COVID-19 response in 30 states

Airman 1st Class Pollyann Valenzuela, 75th Medical Group medic stationed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, assigned to 1st Detachment, 64th Air Expeditionary Group, administers a COVID-19 vaccination to a local community member at the state-run, federally-supported Ford Field COVID-19 Community Vaccination Center in Detroit, Mich., March 26, 2021. The Ford Field CVC is being supported by members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Henry Ford Health Systems, Michigan Department of Health, Meijer and the U.S. Air Force. U.S. Northern Command, through U.S. Army North, remains committed to providing continued, flexible Department of Defense support to FEMA as part of the whole-of-government response to COVID-19. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrew Wash)
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First ATH

In 1954, a 50-bed hospital and its staff were airlifted from Donaldson Air Force Base, South Carolina to Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Fifty-four people and 36,740 pounds of medical and surgical equipment were flown 1,000 miles onboard C-119s. After the equipment was airlifted, the hospital was set up and ready for business in seven hours and 13 minutes. This marked the first use of helicopters and C-119s being used to move a hospital.
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First attached Army Air Forces unit hospital established 75 years ago

U.S. Army Air Forces nurses make their way down the ramp of their Landing Craft Infantry amphibious assault ship on the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria, Italy in 1943. The 34th Station Hospital on the island became the first Army Air Forces hospital truly attached to an Army Air Forces unit. (National Archives)
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First attached Army Air Forces unit hospital established 75 years ago

Billowing smoke covers bomb-blasted Mediterranean island of Pantelleria, Italy, where the Allies dropped 6,202 tons of bombs for more than a month in 1943. (National Archives)
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First Chief of the Nurse Corps

A U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps flight nurse dresses a patient’s wound during an aeromedical evacuation flight from Korea to Japan, May 1951. (Courtesy photo)
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First Chief of the Nurse Corps

General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, congratulates chief of the Air Force Nurse Corps, Lt. Col. Verena Zeller (center), and chief of the Air Force Women’s Medical Specialists, Lt. Col. Miriam Perry (right), upon their promotion. (Courtesy photo)
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First Chief of the Nurse Corps

Capt. Verena Zeller, first chief of the Air Force Nurse Corps. Zeller assumed her chief duties in 1949 while still a captain, and achieved the rank of colonel in just two years. (Courtesy photo)
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First cold storage platelet unit collected in Southwest Asia

The apheresis team collected the first cold storage platelet unit in Southwest Asia, Aug. 16, 2017. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Scott Thibodeau (right) was the first donor. (Courtesy photo)
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First Female General Officer Promoted in the South Carolina Air National Guard

U.S. Air Force Col. Theresa Prince is pinned her star, by retired Brig. Gen. Jim Chow and her husband Ken, at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, Eastover, S.C., Nov. 7, 2015. Prince has 37 years of military experience, 19 in the South Carolina Air National Guard and is the first female to be promoted as a general officer in the unit. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Jorge Intriago/Released)
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First flight nurse air evacuation flights

Nurses of first air evacuation flights on D-Day: l-R: Irene Schultz, Helen Rarick, Vangie Comeaux, Mable Strube, Helen Morison, Betty Williamson, Vee Moss, Mary Bell Fraser, Winnie Plutz of 813th - Le Bourget, Paris , France. (Photo credit: WWII Flight Nurse Association, History of Air Evacuation, 1942-1989)
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First Massachusetts Air National Guard mental health technician strives to help Airmen

Staff Sgt. Victoria von den Benken, 104th Medical Group behavioral health technician, is the first Airman to cross train into the new mental health Air Force Specialty Code. Previously, the mental health AFSC was only available to Active Duty Airmen, but when it became available in the Air National Guard, von den Benken decided to cross train to be there for Airmen who need support. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Sara Kolinski)
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First U.S. flight surgeon

The first flight surgeon in the pioneer Army Air Service of 1918, Dr. Robert J. Hunter, tries out a newfangled noise-measuring gadget on a jet fighter at Randolph Field, Texas. Demonstrating the instrument is Lt. Col. James E. Lett (left), head of the School of Aviation Medicine’s Ear-Nose-Throat department, 1959. (Photo courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)
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First-ever blood test for detecting brain injury cleared by FDA

U.S. Army Spc. Juan Hernandez, Jr., McDonald Army Medical Center U.S. Army Medical Activity medical laboratory technician, draws a blood sample from a patient at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., June 26, 2017. The JBLE lab technicians perform over a million tests annually and study the hematology, coagulation, chemistry and microbiology of the samples. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Teresa J. Cleveland)
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Fit to fight: one fighter wing at a time

U.S. Air Force Capt. Michelle Jilek, 633rd Medical Operations Squadron physical therapist, examines Maj. Seth Rumbarger, 71st Fighter Squadron T-38 Talon pilot, at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Nov. 13, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Tristan Biese)
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Fitness Center Upgrade

Members from the 51st Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) shop conducted a physical training session on the base fitness center tactical pad, Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, March 16, 2018. The fitness center received two tactical training lockers and set up a course for the 51st EOD to test out the new equipment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
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Flight Nurse

A flight nurse cares for wounded soldiers onboard a C-47 Skytrain transport plane. (Credit: AFMS Historian’s Office; Title: Flight Nurse; City, State: Nettuno, Italy; Dateline: June 2, 1944)
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Flight nurse of first official air evacuation flight

2nd Lt Grace E. Dunnam, flight nurse of first official air evacuation flight out of Normandy, bottom row, far left. (credit WWII Flight Nurse Association, 1944)
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Flight nurse saves lives in Normandy during World War II

U.S. Army Air Corps 1st Lt. Madeline “Del” D’Eletto, a flight nurse who treated U.S. Service Members in Europe during World War II. (Courtesy photo by Madeline D’Eletto)
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