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Cost-Free Health Care for OEF/OIF Veterans

Coverage may include health care and medications—as well as dental services.

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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Darkest before dawn

Then Master Sgt. Phillip Sisneros, center, poses for a photo with his wife, Master Sgt. Angela Sisneros, right, and a friend after getting married on top of Spencer Glacier in Alaska on Aug. 1, 2011. Phillip, who at the time was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., received joint spouse orders to join Angela at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, on Aug. 12, 2011, but would be in a motorcycle accident one day later that would keep him in a coma and rehab for almost one year. (Photo courtesy of retired Master Sgt. Phillip Sisneros)

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Darkest before dawn

Master Sgts. Angela and Phillip Sisneros pose for a photo at the 2014 Air Force Ball in Las Vegas on Sept. 27, 2014. The couple was married on Aug. 1, 2011, but Phil was in a motorcycle accident 12 days later that would lead to his eventual medical retirement in 2014. (Photo courtesy of retired Master Sgt. Phillip Sisneros)

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Darkest before dawn

Then Master Sgt. Phillip Sisneros takes a selfie with his wife, Master Sgt. Angela Sisneros, after waking up from a 30-day coma following a motorcycle accident in Las Vegas on Aug. 13, 2011. Angela stayed by Phillip’s side throughout the coma and the months of grueling rehab he would have ahead. (Photo courtesy of retired Master Sgt. Phillip Sisneros)

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Darkest before dawn

Then Master Sgt. Phillip Sisneros, 99th Communications Squadron comm focal point chief, lays in a coma following a motorcycle accident in Las Vegas on Aug. 13, 2011. Sisneros awoke from his coma 30 days after the accident, but suffered a traumatic brain injury that would eventually lead to his medical retirement in 2014. (Photo courtesy of retired Master Sgt. Phillip Sisneros)

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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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Dental lab: Behind the scenes artists

Staff Sgt. Kimberly Conklin, 2nd Dental Squadron dental laboratory NCO in-charge, works on making a retainer at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Aug. 30, 2018. When dentists bring new impressions to the lab, technicians must stop what they are doing and immediately fill the impression before it can no longer be used. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Stuart Bright)

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Dental lab: Behind the scenes artists

Staff Sgt. Kimberly Conklin, 2nd Dental Squadron dental laboratory NCO in-charge, creates a dental cast of a patient’s teeth at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Aug. 30, 2018. Casts are molds of people’s teeth, which are used to create dental gear that will fit the patient. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Stuart Bright)

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Dental lab: Behind the scenes artists

Staff Sgt. Kimberly Conklin, 2nd Dental Squadron dental laboratory NCO in-charge, finishes creating a cast of teeth at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Aug. 30, 2018. Technicians use a material called “stone” to fill impressions. When the stone hardens, it creates a mold of the patient’s teeth. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Stuart Bright)

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Dental lab: Behind the scenes artists

Staff Sgt. Kimberly Conklin, 2nd Dental Squadron dental laboratory NCO in-charge, prepares to fill an impression with stone at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Aug. 30, 2018. The impression needs to be filled within minutes, or it will expand and can’t be used. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Stuart Bright)

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Dental lab: Behind the scenes artists

Staff Sgt. Kimberly Conklin, 2nd Dental Squadron dental laboratory NCO in-charge, finishes making a cast of a patient’s teeth at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Aug. 30, 2018. Lab technicians use casts to create crowns, retainers, night guards and more to fit the patient’s teeth perfectly. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Stuart Bright)

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