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Air Force hones skills with emerging infectious diseases training

A team of U.S. Air Force members and biologists with the Gorgas Institute in Panama check a rodent trap in Meteti, Panama, June 6, 2018. The doctors were participating in an Emerging Infectious Diseases Training Event during Exercise New Horizons 2018, in which they received informational lectures from Panamanian infectious disease experts and conducted field studies of possible virus carrying wildlife and insects. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dustin Mullen)
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Air Force hones skills with emerging infectious diseases training

A team of U.S. Air Force members and biologists with the Gorgas Institute in Panama catch a monkey in a net after tranquilizing it in Meteti, Panama, June 6, 2018. The doctors were participating in an Emerging Infectious Diseases Training Event during Exercise New Horizons 2018, a joint training exercise where U.S. military members conduct training in civil engineer, medical, and support services while benefiting the local community. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dustin Mullen)
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Air Force hones skills with emerging infectious diseases training

A monkey lays wrapped in a blanket after being tranquilized in Meteti, Panama, June 6, 2018. The monkey was tranquilized by U.S. Air Force doctors working with Panamanian counterparts as part of an Emerging Infectious Diseases Training Event during Exercise New Horizons 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dustin Mullen)
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Air Force hones skills with emerging infectious diseases training

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Kelly Gambino-Shirley (left), 346th Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron public health officer, deployed from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, assists Dr. Blas Armien, a doctor with the Gorgas Institute, as they conduct medical tests on a monkey in Meteti, Panama, June 6, 2018, during an Emerging Infectious Diseases Training Event as part of Exercise New Horizons 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dustin Mullen)
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Air Force hones skills with emerging infectious diseases training

A bat is held by a biologist with the Gorgas Institute in Meteti, Panama, June 6, 2018. The bat was caught by doctors participating in an Emerging Infectious Diseases Training Event as part of Exercise New Horizons 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dustin Mullen)
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Major General Sean Murphy

Major General Sean Murphy, Air Force Deputy Surgeon General (U.S. Air Force photo)
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This Month in AFMS History: The air transportable “Flying Lung"

Airman 3rd Class Warren Beatty in a “flying lung” aboard a 374th Troop Carrier Wing C-54 Skymaster, cared for by 1st Lt. Shirley C. Warren, a flight nurse, and Staff Sgt. Lawrence Kiger, a medical technician, en route from Korea to Japan, July 23, 1953. Beatty, stricken with a lung ailment while stationed at Inchon Harbor, Korea, was the first iron lung patient to receive an airlift from the Korean theater. (Photo courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration)
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This Month in AFMS History: The air transportable “Flying Lung"

The “flying lung” designed at the U.S. Air Force School of Aviation Medicine in 1952. A flight nurse adjusts and prepares to disconnect the battery used during transport from the hospital to the aircraft, January 29, 1953. Once aboard, the pressure pump plugged directly into the plane’s electrical system to power the flying lung during flight. (Photo courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration)
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Official Portrait

This is the official portrait of Chief Master Sergeant James K. Gray II.
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Official Portrait

This is the official portrait of Colonel Alfred K. Flowers, Jr.
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Official Portrait

This is the official portrait of Colonel (Dr.) Mark A. Nassir.
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This HIV screening starts in the privacy of your own home

The Air Force offers self-collection kits that include instructions, supplies to obtain a finger-prick blood sample, and a prepaid envelope to mail the sample to a lab for HIV testing. (Photo by Military Health System Communications Office)
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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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Canadian nurse partnered with USAF to save lives in Afghanistan

Maj. Steven Pirie, a Canadian Armed Forces nurse assigned to a Joint Theater Trauma System Team at Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan, prepares to depart the base to deliver point-of-injury training to medics in the field. Pirie served with Air Force medics, helping coordinate care across coalition forces. (Courtesy photo)
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EMEDS Training at Exercise Maroon Surge

Airmen from the 86th Medical Group conducted Ability to Survive and Operate training in an Expeditionary Medical Support System modular field hospital during en route patient staging training during Exercise Maroon Surge on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, June 9, 2018. ATSO training is designed to improve Airmen’s performance during stressful circumstances. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ariel Leighty)
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EMEDS Training at Exercise Maroon Surge

Airmen from the 86th Medical Group treat a patient with simulated minor injuries in an Expeditionary Medical Support System modular field hospital during en route patient staging training during Exercise Maroon Surge on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, June 9, 2018. Treatment at an EMEDS is a vital step in the en route care continuum, getting patients prepped for aeromedical evacuation to higher level of care. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ariel Leighty)
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EMEDS Training at Exercise Maroon Surge

Airmen from the 86th Medical Group and the 86th Logistics Squadron set up an Expeditionary Medical Support System modular field hospital during en route patient staging training during Exercise Maroon Surge on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, June 4, 2018. EMEDS have a scalable design that allows the Air Force to deploy them in configurations that support small teams supporting a limited number of casualties, to large medical systems offering specialized care. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ariel Leighty)
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EMEDS Training at Exercise Maroon Surge

Airmen from the 86th Medical Group and the 86th Logistics Squadron set up an Expeditionary Medical Support System modular field hospital during en route patient staging training during Exercise Maroon Surge on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, June 4, 2018. The primary EMEDS missions are to: provide forward stabilization and resuscitative care; deliver primary care, dental services, and force health protection; and prepare casualties to evacuate to the next level of care. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ariel Leighty)
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C-STARS Baltimore

Col. Joseph DuBose, trauma surgeon and director of the Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (C-STARS) Baltimore, and Master Sgt. Shane Patterson, a respiratory therapist and superintendent of C-STARS Baltimore, receive a report on an incoming 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. These techniques prepare medical Airmen to treat trauma patients in a deployed setting. (Courtesy photo)
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