As our nation's longest war winds down in Afghanistan, thousands of military families can thank an elite group of U.S. Air Force medical providers for bringing their critically-wounded loved ones home ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, (Jan. 19, 2023) – Aug. 26, 2021 was a terrible day of bloodshed and destruction near Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, when a ...

May 15, 2010: The U.S. Air Force has formed the 79th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron in Afghanistan. The unit consists of 80 personnel and two HC-130P aircraft, for flying critically ill patients to ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – January 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of Desert Storm, and it also marks a turning point in Air Force Medical Service’s Critical Care Transport Teams. “We were not serving the ...

LANDSTUHL, Germany - Over 250 service members at the U.S. Army-commanded Landstuhl Regional Medical Center don a different military uniform and serve under the U.S. Air Forces’ 86th Medical Squadron, ...

On an Air Force medical evacuation aircraft, two critically injured service members are being transported from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, under the ...