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Photo By Tech. Sgt. Duane Duimstra | Staff Sgt. Mikayla Wilson, 114th Aircraft Maintenance crew chief, goes through launch procedures during the readiness exercise Aug. 9, 2021, Joe Foss Field, S.D. The readiness exercise is designed to enhance the warfighter ethos of mission-type orders, independent decision making, and risk management at the lowest competent level by testing the 114th Fighter Wing’s ability to set up an alert sight and generate combat airpower on short notice. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Duane Duimstra)

Aug. 13, 2021

114th Fighter Wing 2021 Readiness Exercise

The 114th Fighter Wing executed a unique two-week Readiness Exercise (RE) that tested their ability to stand up an Aerospace Control Alert (ACA) sight, test Agile Combat Employment (ACE) skills on short notice, and facilitate Multi-Capable Airmen (MCA) training at Joe Foss Field, S.D. and the surrounding area from Aug. 3-13, 2021.

Students and staff line up for a picture in front of the Uventus Center outside of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The school teaches work skills to special needs children.

July 15, 2021

AFAS Offers New Special Needs Assistance Grant

A new Air Force Aid Society resource has become available to the families of Airmen to make special needs accommodations more accessible.

Capt. Adam Fannin, 445th Aerospace Medicine Squadron optometrist, assesses a patient at Jenkins County High School, Waynesboro, Georgia, as part of East Central Georgia Medical Innovative Readiness Training, June 9, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Patrick O'Reilly)

July 2, 2021

445th Medical Units Provide Health Care to Georgia Residents

WAYNESBORO, Georgia -- More than 160 Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines arrived in Georgia June 6 for the 2021 East Central Georgia Medical Innovative Readiness Training with a mission to provide no cost health care services to four counties in rural Georgia.

Ready today, ready tomorrow - Air Force prepares for the future of medical readiness Medical Airmen from the 59th Medical Wing at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas prepare to board an aircraft and deploy in support of hurricane relief, September 2017. Air Force Medicine is preparing for future conflicts against new adversaries, with a focus on ensuring all medical forces are ready to deploy as soon as called on. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Keifer Bowes)

June 2, 2021

Lifestyle and Performance Medicine Shows Promising Impact on Airman, Guardian Readiness

Shireen Bedi, Air Force Surgeon General Public Affairs — FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- A new medical approach is being offered to Airmen and Guardians, which has shown to improve and sustain medical readiness and health by taking a more patient-driven, whole body approach to care.

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Andrew Mendedorp, left, the chief of urology at Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, and U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Necia Pope, a urologist with the 59th Medical Wing, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, operate on a patient at Hospital del Sur in Choluteca, Honduras, May 21, 2021. U.S. military doctors arrived in Choluteca for a urologic surgical readiness training exercise to provide essential surgeries to pre-selected Honduran patients. (Courtesy photo)

June 1, 2021

59th MDW medics assist Honduras hospital during Resolute Sentinel 21

CHOLUTECA, Honduras (AFNS) -- U.S. Air Force and Army military doctors were in Choluteca, Honduras, May 12-27, to assist a local hospital with urologic surgeries during Resolute Sentinel 21.

Airman 1st Class Pollyann Valenzuela, 75th Medical Group medic stationed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, assigned to 1st Detachment, 64th Air Expeditionary Group, administers a COVID-19 vaccination to a local community member at the state-run, federally-supported Ford Field COVID-19 Community Vaccination Center in Detroit, Mich., March 26, 2021.

May 20, 2021

First AF’s 64th AEG Airmen Support COVID-19 Response in 30 States

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFNS) -- Airmen managed by First Air Force (Air Forces Northern)’s 64th Air Expeditionary Group are supporting Federal Emergency Management Agency’s vaccination operations across FEMA Regions 5-10 including 30 states, four territories and the Republic of Marshall Islands.

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