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International Red Cross Medal awarded to Team Yokota nurse

Capt. Brandi Branch, 374th Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic flight commander, is one of 37 people from 22 countries that received the Florence Nightingale Medal from the International Red Cross, the highest recognition of distinctive medical service a nurse can be awarded, at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Aug. 7, 2023. Branch was recognized for her efforts in Afghanistan working with the Red Crescent, a Red Cross affiliate, and for her efforts in medical education. The award is named after British nurse Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing practices that reduced the death rate of soldiers during the Crimean war. She promoted the profession and established a nursing school in 1860 at the St. Thomas' Hospital in London. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Staff Sgt. Ryan Lackey)
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193rd Medical Airmen aid Tennessee communities, bolster readiness

Staff Sgt. Kayla Rhoads, 193rd Special Operations Medical Group medic, records a patient's information during Innovative Readiness Training's Healthy Tennesseans event at Bledsoe County High School in Pikeville, Tenn., June 4, 2023. The IRT program provides an array of services to communities in need including civil engineering, medical, and cybersecurity missions while also serving the service members who volunteer for the missions by providing real-world training opportunity to enhance readiness.
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193rd Medical Airmen aid Tennessee communities, bolster readiness

U.S. Air Force Army, and Navy Reserve dentists and dental technicians provide services to patients during Innovative Readiness Training's Healthy Tennesseans event at Bledsoe County High School in Pikeville, Tenn., June 4, 2023. The IRT program provides an array of services to communities in need including civil engineering, medical, and cybersecurity missions while also serving the service members who volunteer for the missions by providing real-world training opportunity to enhance readiness.
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193rd Medical Airmen aid Tennessee communities, bolster readiness

Members of the Air National Guard and Air Force, Army, and Navy Reserve participated in a Tactical Combat Casualty Care culmination training event at the Rhea County Fairgrounds during Innovative Readiness Training in Tennessee June 5, 2023. The IRT program held "Healthy Tennesseans," a medical mission providing no cost health services to locals, from June 3-12 and provided service members from various branches to participate in readiness training. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Kristen Pittman)
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Global Strike Command Reports Initial ICBM PCB Survey Results

Gen. Thomas Bussiere, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, briefs Airmen from across the intercontinental ballistic missile community about the initial results from the Missile Community Cancer Study, Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Aug. 7, 2023. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Capt. Joshua Thompson) (This photo has been altered for security purposes by covering the computer screen.)
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The Brandon Act is intended to help identify and get care for mental health concerns by making it easier to access – and required of leaders to take seriously – mental health support by referencing “The Brandon Act” when they need a referral to mental health services.
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Air Force Surgeon General visits SOCMID, UAB

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Russell Day, Special Operations Center for Medical Integration and Development medical director at the University of Alabama - Birmingham, left, briefs Lt. Gen. Robert Miller, Air Force and Space Force Surgeon General, center, and Chief Master Sgt. Dawn Kolczynski, medical enlisted force and enlisted corps chief, right, on the hands-on training available at SOCMID as they tour the facility July 20, 2023. The 24th Special Operations Wing launched the Special Operations Center for Medical Integration and Development in 2021 as a cooperative effort between the U.S. Air Force and the University of Alabama-Birmingham to develop and provide advanced standardized training to special operations medics. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Capt. Savannah Stephens)
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Air Force Surgeon General visits SOCMID, UAB

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Miller, Air Force and Space Force Surgeon General, center, tour the University of Alabama - Birmingham medical center with Dr. Daniel Cox, Chief, Trauma Service, and Individual Mobilization Augmentee to the Air Force Special Operations Command Surgeon General, right, and Dr. Jeffrey Kerby, Director, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, left. The Special Operations Center for Medical Integration and Development is embedded with the UAB hospital. The UAB Hospital is a level one trauma center, and the partnership enables members of the Air Force Special Operations community to gain critical medical experience while conducting clinical rotations in operating and emergency rooms. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Capt. Savannah Stephens)
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Air Force Surgeon General visits SOCMID, UAB

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Miller, Air Force and Space Force Surgeon General, center, and Chief Master Sgt. Dawn Kolczynski, medical enlisted force and enlisted corps chief, right, receive a briefing from the Air Force Research Laboratory staff on BATDOK during a tour July 20, 2023. BATDOK is a multi-patient, point of injury, casualty tool that assists operators and improves care. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Capt. Savannah Stephens)
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Air Force Surgeon General visits SOCMID, UAB

Brenda Carlisle, University of Alabama - Birmingham hospital Chief Executive Officer, thanks U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Miller, Air Force and Space Force Surgeon General, for the Air Force Medical Service’s continued support of the UAB hospital and U.S. Air Force partnership during a tour on July 20, 2023. The UAB Hospital is a level one trauma center, and the partnership enables members of the Air Force Special Operations community to gain critical medical experience while conducting clinical rotations in operating and emergency rooms. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Capt. Savannah Stephens)
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Being a Rare Match

Senior Airman Anthony Tabor, left, and Senior Airman Nikko Foster, 374th Medical Support Squadron biomedical equipment technicians, pose for a photo at Yokota Air Base, Japan, August 3, 2023. Tabor accompanied Foster to San Antonio for a bone marrow donation in February to support Foster in the event of any rare complications. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Natalie Doan)
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USAFSAM continues missile community cancer study in Montana

From left to right: Bioenvironmental engineers Tech. Sgt. Quintin Labs, U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, and Staff Sgt. Jessika Ilgen, 341st Operational Medical Readiness Squadron, collect a swipe sample in a launch control center near Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont., to test for presence of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), June 22, 2023. As part of the ongoing “Missile Community Cancer Study,” air, water and soil quality will be tested at all the missile alert facilities within Air Force Global Strike Command’s three operational intercontinental ballistic missile wings for potential occupational hazards. USAFSAM is part of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo / John Turner)
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U.S. Air Force Capt. Jessica Alves, a medical specialist assigned to the 109th Airlift Wing, New York Air National Guard, works with a patient during an Innovative Readiness Training mission in Covelo, California, June 16, 2023. IRT missions offer no-cost medical care to U.S. communities while providing hands-on experience to service members.
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118th Medical Group, Bulgarian Armed Forces exercise medical skills during Thracian Sentry 2023

During the week of June 19-23, members of the Tennessee Army and Air National Guard, along with their Bulgarian counterparts, participate in a series of readiness exercise in Thracian Sentry 2023. Thracian Sentry 2023 highlights the 30-year-long partnership between the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense and the Tennessee National Guard and commemorates many years of military cooperation. During the exercise, the two teams exchanged knowledge and best practices to help develop interoperability and improve readiness for full-spectrum operations in complex environments such as combat medical care. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Yonette Martin)
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TCCC joint training exercise

A group of service members carry a simulated casualty at Buckley Space Force Base, Colo., July 27, 2023. The service members exercised tactical combat casualty care training in order to safely escort the simulated casualty to the evacuation location. (U.S. Space Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joshua Hollis)
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C-STARS gains new equipment for infectious disease readiness training

The Negatively Pressurized CONEX, or NPC, arrives at the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills, or C-STARS, in Omaha, Nebraska June 24, 2023. The NPC will be used in developing a new infectious disease air transport training course on procedures for current and future outbreaks of highly infectious disease (U.S. Air Force photo).
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C-STARS gains new equipment for infectious disease readiness training

The Negatively Pressurized CONEX, or NPC, arrives at the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills, or C-STARS, in Omaha, Nebraska June 24, 2023. The NPC will be used in developing a new infectious disease air transport training course on procedures for current and future outbreaks of highly infectious disease (U.S. Air Force photo)
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C-STARS gains new equipment for infectious disease readiness training

Interior of the Negatively Pressurized CONEX, or NPC at the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills, or C-STARS, in Omaha, Nebraska June 24, 2023. The NPC will be used in developing a new infectious disease air transport training course on procedures for current and future outbreaks of highly infectious disease (U.S. Air Force photo).
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Yokota Medics test contingency response with UK, JP allies during MG23

U.S. Air Force Capt. Doniqua Jenkins-Wheeler, 374th Medical Group executive officer, (left front), and Capt. Amy Goodnite, 374th Medical Group medical readiness officer, (left back), talk with Royal Air Force medical professionals about differences between United Kingdom and U.S. Critical Care Air Transport Teams, during an aeromedical evacuation training as part of Exercise Mobility Guardian 2023, July 18, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The training allowed the Yokota medics to practice critical skills to safely move patients from different locations while increasing interoperability between the U.S. and its allies. This iteration of training was the first time Canadian, New Zealand, Japanese, and United Kingdom medics participated. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)
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Yokota Medics test contingency response with UK, JP allies during MG23

A medical transport bus from the 374th Medical Group waits to transport simulated patients from a Royal Air Force Voyager aircraft assigned to RAF Brize Norton based Air Mobility Force during an aeromedical evacuation training as part of Exercise Mobility Guardian 2023, July 18, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. Yokota medics practiced aeromedical evacuation in cooperation with the U.K., Canada, New Zealand and Japan. MG23 is a multilateral exercise and an opportunity to train alongside our allies and partners, increase interoperability and bolster our collective ability to support a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)
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