Feb. 19, 2026 Honoring the legacy of service: Leadership from Buckley Space Force Base visits Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center during National Salute to Veteran Patients Week As part of the National Salute to Veteran Patients Week, senior leaders from Space Base Delta 2 visited the Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado, on Feb. 10, 2026, to honor and express appreciation for the nation's local inpatient veterans.
Sept. 29, 2025 Air Force, VA preserve vital Vietnam, Korean War veteran biospecimens for future study The Department of Air Force transferred more than 178,000 biological samples from Vietnam and Korean War veterans to the Department of Veterans Affairs in August, concluding an 18-year effort to safeguard them for future studies.
March 1, 2019 Interagency exercise boosts medical readiness The 99th Medical Group, Department of Veterans Affairs and Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps participated in a federal coordination exercise, Feb. 19, simulating a mass airlift operation to extract casualties following a disaster.
Sept. 14, 2017 Caregivers play critical role in lives of wounded warriors Tech. Sgt. Eric Fisher was two months into a five-month deployment in 2011 to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, when he suffered a heart attack after an intense rocket attack, and a day of moving heavy pallets on the flight line.
June 27, 2017 VA and Air Force Announce Tele-Intensive Care Unit Sharing Agreement The Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Midwest Health Care Network and the Air Force Medical Operations Agency today announced a collaborative Tele-ICU agreement that will allow Air Force patients at five military treatment facilities to use VA’s Tele-ICU capabilities through its centralized