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Features

  • Doctor Duo Builds Bridge of Service Around the World

    Ifiok Idem and Emem Idem faced a dilemma.The young doctors were working at a small mission hospital in a remote Nigerian village when a patient arrived in dire need of surgery and a blood transfusion. The problem was there was not enough blood in the blood bank for the procedure.

  • Reservist intent on helping others teams up with unique nonprofit

    As an aeromedical evacuation technician with the Air Force Reserve’s 934th Airlift Wing, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Air Reserve Station, Minnesota, and a civilian paramedic in Madison, Wisconsin, Master Sgt. Brian Tremain has a heart for helping people make it through some of the

  • Reservists Sharpen Skills, Build relationships at Resolute Sentinel

    While many of his friends were lying on the beach or riding roller coasters with their kids at amusement parks, Lt. Col. Stephen Murphy spent his summer vacation at one of the top military hospitals in the El Salvadorian capital of San Salvador, sharpening his own medical skills while sharing

  • Keesler Reservists using upgraded night-vision devices

    Imagine a nearly pitch black space.The hand you can only faintly see in front of you rises to flip a battery pack towards your forehead and a faint hum of power buzzes incessantly like a mosquito in the summertime.

  • Reservists from other services bring unique skills to the fight

    The Air Force Reserve is loaded with highly skilled and highly trained prior-service members who for one reason or another decided the Reserve was a better fit for them than active-duty service. Most prior-service Reservists come from the active-duty Air Force, but the Reserve welcomes prior-service

  • Virtual Reality brings training to life for Maxwell defenders

    Early in June, the sound of gunshots rang down the halls of a former civil engineering building at Maxwell Air Force Base’s Gunter Annex. Most people would have instinctively called security forces, but members of the 908th Airlift Wing’s Security Forces Squadron were already on the scene, training

  • Collaborating in the ER: Reservists assist, learn in community hospitals

    On July 18, HQ AFRC, working in conjunction with the 932nd Airlift Wing, located near Belleville, Illinois, signed a Training Affiliation Agreement with the St. Louis-based Mercy Health System. TAAs offer military members the opportunity to improve their skills by working alongside their civilian