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MQ-9 flight simulation

2nd Lt. Timothy, remotely piloted aircraft student pilot, operates an MQ-9 flight simulator for training at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, Dec. 10, 2019. The 49th Wing is the largest formal training unit for MQ-9 RPA pilots and sensor operators. Last name removed and obscured for OPSEC. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Quion Lowe)
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U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Alice Briones, Armed Forces Medical Examiner System deputy director, looks at histology slides under a microscope June 7, 2018, at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. Briones joined AFMES as deputy medical examiner in Rockville, Maryland in 2010, and Dover AFB, Delaware, and was appointed director of the DoD DNA Registry in 2014, coordinating services in both the Armed Forces Repository of Specimen Storage for Identification of Remains and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Nicole Leidholm)
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U.S. Navy Cmdr. (Dr.) Sherry Jilinski (left), Armed Forces Medical Examiner System medical examiner, and U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. (Dr.) Alice Briones, AFMES deputy director and medical examiner, conduct an inventory of items found at Colony Glacier at the 673rd Medical Group, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, June 26, 2019. Following the inventory at the 673rd Medical Group at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, a dignified carry and dignified departure for the remains was conducted by the JBER Honor Guard and 673rd MDG personnel before being escorted to Dover Air Force Base, Del. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Nicole Leidholm)
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U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Alice Briones, Armed Forces Medical Examiner System deputy director, has been named director of AFMES, effective February 21, 2020, making Briones the first female director. U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Place, Defense Health Agency director, selected Briones after she served as deputy director of AFMES since April 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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An AFMS look back at February 2020

A dental technician assigned to the 48th Dental Squadron prepares for a routine teeth cleaning at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, Feb. 6, 2020. The 48th DS mission is to provide excellent, best-value oral health for readiness. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jessi Monte)
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Kadena Airmen tryout for the Defenders Challenge Championship

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Kevin Kovach, 18th Security Forces Squadron response force leader, places a tourniquet on the simulated patient’s arm during the Defenders Challenge at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Feb. 13, 2020. This was one of several events participants had to overcome during the Defenders Challenge. The events varied from physical exercise, a three-mile run, to weapon assembly. (U.S. Air Force photo by Naoto Anazawa)
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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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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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An AFMS look back at February 2020

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. David Hernandez, 43rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron chief flight nurse, directs the boarding of medical training mannequins onto a Fairchild Air Force Base KC-135 Stratotanker during an aeromedical evacuation mission at Travis Air Force Base, California, Feb. 11, 2020. This is Fairchild’s second Travis aeromedical evacuation training support mission, and with the new addition of the 60th AES team, Team Fairchild is looking forward to more training missions in the future. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Lawrence Sena)
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DoD to restructure 50 hospitals, clinics to improve readiness

The Department of Defense today announced plans to restructure 50 military hospitals and clinics to better support wartime readiness of military personnel and to improve clinical training for medical forces who deploy in support of combat operations around the world. (Courtesy photo)
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Air Force Surgeon General visits DGMC

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Dorothy Hogg, Air Force Surgeon General, left, and Col. Beth Dion, 60th Inpatient Squadron commander, center, discuss operational readiness of the medical force during a visit to the central medical surgical unit, David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, California, Feb. 10, 2020. Hogg visited with 60th Medical Group Airmen and recognized the positive impact they have on their community through their innovative medical practices. (U.S. Air Force photo by Heide Couch)
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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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