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B-17 waistgunner over Europe. (Painting by Charles Ingram, 2017)


Creation of the first Central Medical Establishment

B-17 waistgunner over Europe. (Painting by Charles Ingram, 2017)

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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)
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)
CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT JAMES K. GRAY II
COLONEL ALFRED K. FLOWERS, JR.
COLONEL (DR.) MARK A. NASSIR
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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