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Then Senior Master Sgt. Chad Caden, the chief enlisted manager with the 633rd Civil Engineer Squadron at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, relies on a crutch during his Chief Induction ceremony in Hampton, Va., February 2017, nearly 2 months after receiving an amputation on his right leg due to a bone disease called Osteonecrosis. Osteonecrosis caused Caden’s foot to lose blood flow and resulted in bone decay. This bone disease went undiagnosed for years while Caden experienced debilitating pain that significantly impacted his ability to work. (Courtesy photo)


An Airman’s recovery after a mysterious diagnosis

Then Senior Master Sgt. Chad Caden, the chief enlisted manager with the 633rd Civil Engineer Squadron at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, relies on a crutch during his Chief Induction ceremony in Hampton, Va., February 2017, nearly 2 months after receiving an amputation on his right leg due to a bone disease called Osteonecrosis. Osteonecrosis caused Caden’s foot to lose blood flow and resulted in bone decay. This bone disease went undiagnosed for years while Caden experienced debilitating pain that significantly impacted his ability to work. (Courtesy photo)

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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)

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