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Born Dead: AF medical miracle leads Airman back to military medicine

Col. Katherine Rearden, 59th Medical Wing Clinical Research Division chief, sits with her parents’ official service portraits on March 28, 2014 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Rearden’s father, Anthony Palmere, entered active duty service in the Army Air Corps in 1952 at the age of 19 as a pharmacy technician at Kelly Air Force Base, now the Kelly Annex for Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland. Her mother, Beatrice Groves, joined the Air Force through the Women in the Air Force program as a personnelist at Kelly Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Christopher Carwile)

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