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  • Only Air Force Forward Surgical Team saves service members lives

    The phone rings and a medic answers. It's a service member ready to give a nine line report. There's been a rocket attack and resulting in several injuries. The medics quickly prepare for the incoming patients.All over Afghanistan service members are deployed to forward operating bases as they

  • Wisconsin ANG attend Brave Defender

    Like generations of American service members over the past century, 26 security forces Airmen from the 115th Fighter Wing, Madison, Wis., participate in pre-deployment training on American soil on their way to protect U.S. and allied interests around the world.The SF personnel received comprehensive

  • 40th FTS expands A-10 fuel limitations in combat

    The dreaded fuel light, either blinking or glowing red indicating low on gas, becomes a constant reminder that a stoppage of the drive, trip or mission is imminent. The A-10 section of the 40th Flight Test Squadron is testing the expansion of the Thunderbolt II's fuel capability to prolong its

  • Eglin Airmen utilize medical expertise in "Healing Peru"

    Living on less than a dollar a day, consuming little to no clean water and having poor access to medical care, these are the conditions the native peoples of Andahuaylillas, Peru, encounter daily. On May 31, a contingent of Air Force medical professionals traveled to Peru in hopes of bettering the

  • Eglin Airman participates in Liberian medical outreach

    A team of Armed Forces of Liberia soldiers, U.S. service members and county health officials conducted a mobile medical outreach mission in Grand Cape Mount County recently. The mobile mission held from July 1 to July 4, 2013, was a first for the AFL medics, who, until now, have been focusing their

  • Maintenance super receives Bronze Star

    A day in the life of an Air Force jet maintainer reached Mach speed while deployed overseas, earning him the Bronze Star Medal.Senior Master Sgt. Jamie Jordan, 33rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron assistant superintendent, was awarded the honor during an official ceremony at his unit June 4."A lot of