Aug. 6, 2024 Joining Forces: Air Force Reserve squadron boosts naval medical care in San Diego The 514th Aeromedical Staging Squadron of the 514th Air Mobility Wing, recently spent their annual tour at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, where they worked alongside their Navy counterparts in the intensive care unit and emergency department for two weeks.
May 2, 2024 Embodying the American Spirit, honoring Asian Heritage It was April 28, 1975, and Saigon was about to fall to North Vietnamese forces, ending the Vietnam war. Tam Do Nguyen, a South Vietnamese naval officer, was fighting alongside the U.S. Navy 7th Fleet for three years when life as he knew it ceased to exist.
Oct. 31, 2022 Arkansas Air Guardsmen provide medical care in Guatemala Arkansas ANG members helped provide medical care in Guatemala during the Continuing Promise 2022 mission.
April 5, 2022 445th ASTS partners with Navy to enhance medical training A group of 19 Airmen from the 445th Aeromedical Staging Squadron consisting nurses, medical technicians and medical administration specialists arrived in San Diego March 14, 2022 to perform their two-week annual training at Naval Medical Center San Diego.
Aug. 17, 2021 USSOUTHCOM supports US disaster assistance to Haiti A Situational Awareness Team will join officials from the U.S. embassy and a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) deployed to Haiti, Aug. 14, at the direction of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
March 3, 2020 Medics rehearse trilateral casualty scenarios at Cope North 2020 Together, the United States Air Force and Navy, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, and Royal Australian air force raced against the clock in a realistic exercise scenario to save 24 patients from a bus rollover. They worked alongside Guam’s Army National Guard and local police and emergency medical
Oct. 14, 2017 Service members prepare for humanitarian, disaster missions The USNS Comfort hospital ship is steaming toward Puerto Rico; U.S. Navy and Marine Corps rescue helicopters are helping to evacuate people in Dominica; countless National Guardsmen were called upon after hurricanes wreaked havoc in Texas and Florida. Whether in support of the Federal Emergency
Oct. 5, 2017 Military dentists in high-demand during joint-service health care initiative in Missouri Dental care was in high-demand at the Operation Healthy Delta Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) exercise in southeastern Missouri. Known as the Bootheel, the region is one of the state’s more medically underserved areas.