Air force medic

A Brooke Army Medical Center team made medical history by completing the military's first trans-Atlantic movement of an adult on external lung support.

Day on the Job: Nurse, medical technician > U.S. Air Forces ...

Royal Canadian Air Force Capt. Kathleen Nguyen, a 1st Canadian Field Hospital critical care nurse, practices treating simulated patients as part of an aeromedical evacuation scenario during exercise Mobility Guardian at Fairchild AFB, Wash. Photo: SrA. Charles Fultz

One of the U.S. Air Force’s missions is to provide Airmen and their families with the best health care possible ... There is only one enlisted health care provider in the Air Force Medical Service Corps ... the Independent Duty Medical Technician (IDMT).

Members of the Critical Care Air Transit team, 149th Medical Group, Texas Air National Guard, practice on a simulated critical-care patient onboard the C-130H2 aircraft from the 136th Airlift Wing during Air-X 2015, the largest joint force domestic operations exercise at College Station, Texas, on April 25.

My story started 31 years ago, in a rather unusual way. I’m embarrassed to say, I was born in a car, I came out on the way to the hospital. As a child, my parents divorced when I was one, so I grew