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Columbus AFB challenges medics with combat casualty exercise

Airmen from the 14th Medical Group train with a medical training mannequin during the Tactical Combat Casualty Care Course in the Walker Center at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, Feb. 23, 2020. TCCC has become the standard of medical training proficiency for military personnel to prepare them for potential combat situations in an ongoing effort to heighten medical readiness. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jake Jacobsen)
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Columbus AFB challenges medics with combat casualty exercise

Airmen from the 14th Medical Group walk in a line into the simulated battlefield during the Tactical Combat Casualty Care Course in the Walker Center at Columbus Air Force Base Mississippi, Feb. 23, 2020. In the replicated training, Airmen were given rubber guns and full body gear to protect the “wounded” and other medics while providing treatment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jake Jacobsen)
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Combat acupuncture

Maj. (Dr.) Jennifer Salguero 377th Medical Group, family practice clinic medical director, performs combat acupuncture on Jim Fisher, 377th Air Base Wing public affairs specialist, at the 377th Medical Group building in Albuquerque, N.M., Feb. 7, 2018. Whereas traditional acupuncture involves needles placed within 12 zones all throughout the body, Battlefield Acupuncture is a form of auricular acupuncture in which needles are placed only on the surface of the ear. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. J.D. Strong II)
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Combat Challenge

31st Security Forces Squadron Airmen perform aid on a training dummy to test their first aid abilities during the Police Week Combat Challenge that pit security forces Airmen against Joint International Non Commissioned Officers Development Course on May 15, 2019 at Aviano Air Base, Italy. Participates were tested on treating wounds, applying a tourniquet and other forms of first aid. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Caleb House)
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Commander Air Education and Training Command visits 59th Medical Wing

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Matthew Shaffer, Department of Defense biomedical equipment technician training program instructor supervisor, demonstrates a virtual reality training program to Air Education and Training Command leadership during an immersion tour at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Oct. 9, 2019. An innovation team on the Medical Education Training Campus has created a VR lab to augment learning within each student’s respective schoolhouse. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Amanda Stanford)
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Conducting COVID-19 Testing

U.S. Air Force Airman from the 133rd Medical Group, oversees COVID-19 testing in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 4, 2020. The Minnesota National Guard, including the 133rd Airlift Wing, were mobilized in support of Minnesota’s Executive Order 20-64, performing patrols, manning control points, and assisting firefighters in accomplishing their lifesaving mission by providing security throughout Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and surrounding communities. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Amy M. Lovgren)
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Connecting with the Airmen

Airman 1st Class Mychaela Cammack, 47th Medical Operations Squadron pediatrics technician, bottom left, briefs Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Lee E. Payne, Air Force Medical Operations Agency commander, at the 47th Medical Group Clinic on Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, Oct. 15, 2015. The pediatrics clinic was one of twelve units Payne visited during his visit to Laughlin to gain a better perspective of the mission and challenges faced by the unit. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech Sgt. Steven R. Doty)(Released)
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Coordinated response: Coalition forces conduct first joint crash exercise

Members of the 380th Expeditionary Medical Group medical operations flight prepare a pilot for transport, with the assistance of French security forces, during a joint crash exercise at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, May 16, 2017. Coalition first responders worked together to provide joint response and care, and to simulate how they would respond in the event of an aircraft mishap. [Faces of French personnel have been obscured at the request of l'Armée de l'air.] (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Marjorie A. Bowlden)
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COVID screenings

Two members of the 55th Medical group review a COVID-19 briefing as part of a screening for members of the 45th Reconnaissance Squadron returning from overseas, May 5. 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo by William A. O'Brien)
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COVID-19 can’t stop Lab Week

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Cody Emery and Airman 1st Class Jordan Cleveland, 30th Health Care Operations Squadron laboratory technicians, conduct microscope training at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, April 20, 2020. Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, also known as Lab Week, is observed annually to promote awareness and show appreciation to medical laboratory professionals and pathologists for the work they do to assist patients. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brittany E. N. Murphy)
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COVID-19 RESPONSE

Kuhina Talimalie, 735th Air Mobility Squadron passenger service and baggage agent, tests a no-touch thermometer on an Airman at the Air Mobility Command Passenger Terminal at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, March 25, 2020. Passenger terminal Airmen are screening passengers for fevers to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Anthony Nelson Jr.)
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COVID-19 testing

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Kokou Dekadjevi, 96th Medical Group, administers a COVID-19 test at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, Aug. 10, 2020. Dekadjevi and the medical group’s diagnostic testing center employees administered more than 330 tests in a two-day span to 7th Special Forces Group Soldiers returning from a deployment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ilka Cole)
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COVID-19 testing

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Tessa Campanella, 96th Medical Group, completes a COVID-19 test at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, Aug. 10, 2020. Campanella and the medical group’s diagnostic testing center employees administered more than 330 tests in a two-day span to 7th Special Forces Group Soldiers returning from a deployment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ilka Cole)
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COVID-19 testing available for DOD members, families

A member of the 55th Medical Group takes the vitals of a member of Team Offutt as part of a drive through COVID-19 test behind the Ehrling Bergquist Clinic and Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, May 18, 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. William A. O'Brien)
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CST/TCCC: training to survive

Fake blood rests on the hands of Airman 1st Class Andruw Reyes, 23d Maintenance Squadron nondestructive inspection technician, during a Tactical Combat Casualty Care course at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., Feb. 14, 2018. The training is designed to teach Airmen how to apply critical life-saving skills while engaged in a combat environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Erick Requadt)
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C-STARS Baltimore

Maj. Shane Runyon (right), Baltimore’s Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (C-STARS) program deputy director, and Master Sgt. Sean Patterson, a respiratory therapist and superintendent of C-STARS Baltimore, set up for patient arrival at the Trauma Resuscitation Unit (TRU) at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, June 13, 2018. The U.S. Air Force’s C-STARS Baltimore program partners with the R Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center to ensure medical Airmen train on the latest trauma care techniques. These techniques prepare medical Airmen to treat trauma patients in a deployed setting. (Courtesy photo)
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C-STARS Baltimore

Maj. Shane Runyon, Baltimore’s Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (C-STARS) program deputy director, and Master Sgt. Sean Patterson, a respiratory therapist and superintendent of C-STARS Baltimore, work with staff and students on a newly arrived patient at the Trauma Resuscitation Unit (TRU) at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, June 13, 2018. The U.S. Air Force’s C-STARS Baltimore program partners with the R Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center to ensure medical Airmen train on the latest trauma care techniques by embedding them in the clinic and giving them first-hand experience treating trauma patients. (Courtesy photo)
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Days into IRT, troops perform more than 9,000 procedures

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Julie Robinson, the dental officer-in-charge for Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation Tri-State Innovative Readiness Training 2019 and a dentist with the 176th Wing, Alaska Air National Guard, waits for a numbing agent to take effect during a tooth extraction procedure at a temporary clinic in Sikeston, Mo., June 19, 2019. U.S. service members deployed to Sikeston as part of a joint service medical exercise that provides training to service members and no-cost medical services to the community. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Jonathan W. Padish)
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Days into IRT, troops perform more than 9,000 procedures

U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Eddie Perez, a dental technician, and U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Julie Robinson, the dental officer-in-charge for Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation Tri-State Innovative Readiness Training 2019 and a dentist, both assigned to the 176th Wing, Alaska Air National Guard, perform a tooth extraction procedure at a temporary clinic in Sikeston, Mo., June 19, 2019. U.S. service members deployed to Sikeston as part of a joint service medical exercise that provides training to service members and no-cost medical services to the community. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Jonathan W. Padish)
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Days into IRT, troops perform more than 9,000 procedures

U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Eddie Perez, a dental technician, and Lt. Col. Julie Robinson, the dental officer-in-charge for Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation Tri-State Innovative Readiness Training 2019 and a dentist, both assigned to the 176th Wing, Alaska Air National Guard, perform a tooth extraction procedure at a temporary clinic in Sikeston, Missouri, June 19, 2019. Perez and Robinson deployed to Sikeston as part of a joint service medical exercise that provides training to service members and no-cost medical services to the community. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Jonathan W. Padish)
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