Sept. 7, 2023 Airmen reflect on lessons learned at Patriot Medic 23 Seventy Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 433rd Medical Group spent 19 days undergoing rigorous and realistic training at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, and Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, as part of Patriot Medic 23.
Sept. 6, 2023 Mountain Medic 23 tests joint-service medical evacuation readiness in austere environment Soldiers, Airmen and Guardians from multiple units participated in Exercise Mountain Medic 23, designed to simulate the evacuation and treatment of injured personnel in a joint-service austere battle zone, Aug. 7-18, 2023, throughout Colorado.
Sept. 5, 2023 Popular AFRL invention supports joint military needs with mobile medical documentation BATDOK is a smartphone application for mobile medical documentation that replaces pen and paper records.
Aug. 31, 2023 Air Force medical leadership discuss AFMED structure during week-long conference Air Force medical leaders hosted a week-long strategy planning conference August 14 to 18 to solidify details to standup the Air Force Medical Command, or AFMED.
Aug. 29, 2023 445th AW, 911th AW medical teams participate in Steel Buckeye Approximately 65 Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 445th Aeromedical Evacuation and Aeromedical Staging Squadrons trained with their counterparts from the 911th Airlift Wing, Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania, at two locations during Steel Buckeye, August 2-3.
Aug. 25, 2023 PACAF, allies support Pacific Airlift Rally 23 Pacific Air Force Airmen returned from Pacific Airlift Rally 23, a multinational, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise involving the U.S., Philippines, Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia air forces at Clark Air Base, Philippines, Aug. 14-18.
Aug. 14, 2023 142nd AES enhance Multi-Capable Airmen skills during MEDIC-X training The 436th Medical Group partnered with the 142nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, Delaware Air National Guard Base, New Castle, Delaware, to assist with MEDIC-X training on Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Aug. 9, 2023.
Aug. 14, 2023 First nurse serves as director of ANG Medical Service Office of the Air Surgeon Rohatasch is the first clinical nurse to assume command of the ANG Office of the Air Surgeon and brings nearly four decades of medical experience to the position.
Aug. 14, 2023 Medics train during contingency response development U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army medical from multiple units came together for a contingency response development at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, Aug. 9, 2023.
Aug. 11, 2023 Air Force to restructure for improved readiness and health service support The Air Force is restructuring the Air Force Medical Service to advance Airmen and Guardian health and readiness. The move also provides better support and advocacy for Department of the Air Force priorities in partnership with the Military Health System.
Aug. 10, 2023 193rd medical Airmen aid Tennessee communities, bolster readiness In a display of dedication to public service, the 193rd Special Operations Medical Group recently participated in an initiative known as the Innovative Readiness Training - Project Healthy Tennesseans June 1-15, in Pikeville and Evansville, Tennessee.
Aug. 3, 2023 New York ANG medics train at California clinic Seventeen Air National Guard Airmen from New York’s 109th Airlift Wing spent two weeks in California providing free medical, dental and veterinary care at the Round Valley Indian Health Center.
Aug. 3, 2023 Missile Community Cancer Study team conducts second batch of testing at ICBM bases The Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine sent teams to all three intercontinental ballistic missile wings to test for exposure hazards within missile alert facilities.
Aug. 1, 2023 Yokota Medics test contingency response with Allies during Mobility Guardian 2023 Yokota medics were put to the test to practice aeromedical evacuation and massive casualty response in cooperation with the U.K., Canada, New Zealand, and Japan in support of Mobility Guardian 2023 operations and an internal readiness exercise at Yokota Air Base, Japan, July 18-19, 2023.
Aug. 1, 2023 C-STARS gains new equipment for infectious disease readiness training An essential piece of equipment arrived at the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills, or C-STARS, in Omaha, Nebraska, June 24, 2023.
Aug. 1, 2023 USAFSAM visits F.E. Warren AFB to continue cancer study U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine teams visited all of F.E. Warren Air Force Base’s missile alert facilities as part of the ongoing missile community cancer study at all three intercontinental ballistic missile wings in Air Force Global Strike Command, July 13, 2023.
July 28, 2023 USAFSAM visits Minot AFB to continue cancer study Airmen from the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, the 5th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron, and the 742nd Missile Squadron visited Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, July 25, 2023.
July 26, 2023 Opportunity in the Ozarks: 307th MDS takes part in IRT mission Innovative Readiness Training missions like Northwest Arkansas Wellness provide communities in the U.S. and its territories with no-cost medical services. It also allows military members to gain valuable hands-on training.
July 25, 2023 AMC's largest global exercise proves success in Indo-Pacific theater The debut of the exercise in the Indo-Pacific saw 70 mobility aircraft with more than 3,000 service members from Australia, Canada, France, Japan, New Zealand, the U.K. and the U.S. surge across an exercise area spanning 13 million square miles.
July 24, 2023 Little Rock AFB conducts MEDIC-X training, delivers life-sustaining care for future fight Moving out on the 19th Airlift Wing’s multiple readiness events taking place during ROCKI 23-07, the 19th Medical Group completed their first iteration of MEDIC-X training, July 21, 2023, to better equip medical personnel with life-sustaining skills needed for a limited resourced environment.