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    Battlefield Airmen now developed using tech advantages

    The Battlefield Airmen Training Group, with squadrons located at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland; Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico; and Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina, continues pushing boundaries; training innovative, scholarly, tactical athletes for U.S. Special Operations Forces.
  • Despite strict policies on tobacco use and awareness of the risks to health, readiness, and performance, some Airmen continue to use tobacco products. Retired Col. G. Wayne Talcott, consultant, Chief of Air Force Health Promotions at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas and director, Military Population Health Program at the University of Virginia, and his team are working to understand what factors contribute to Airmen’s tobacco use and improve current tobacco cessation efforts. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Erica Crossen)

    Researchers study factors influencing Airmen’s tobacco use during technical training

    The Air Force strictly regulates tobacco use during basic and technical training, but some Airmen still use it. Air Force researchers are working with the University of Virginia to uncover why Airmen use tobacco.
  • Dr. Tom Sauerwein, director of the 59th Medical Wing’s Diabetes Center of Excellence, teaches patients to self-manage diabetes during a classroom session at the Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The DCOE is a premier Air Force Medical Service specialty clinic dedicated to providing standardized diabetes care to beneficiaries across the military health care system. The clinical component provides diabetes management, diabetes education, and diabetes prevention programs through referral care to more than 50,000 TRICARE beneficiaries. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jason Huddleston)

    Wing pioneers innovative diabetes education program

    A 59th Medical Wing education initiative aims to ensure all Department of Defense patients with diabetes can learn how to manage their disease and lower their risk for complications.
  • Senior Airman Sierra Steen, 59th Medical Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron, pharmacy tech, drops off unused medications in the MedSafe cabinet, Apr. 21, 2016, at the Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center Pharmacy lobby on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Secure medicine collection cabinets are located in the WHASC lobby first floor near Seattle’s Best, in the Satellite Pharmacy lobby and at the Reid Clinic just outside the pharmacy. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jason Huddleston)

    Wing expands medicine disposal program to JBSA-Lackland

    The 59th Medical Wing is expanding its medicine disposal program, a patient safety initiative allowing beneficiaries to drop off unused medications year round, to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.
  • Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson, commander, Air Education and Training Command, talks with 59th Medical Wing Airmen during an all call gathering May 11 at the Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. The general talked about his focus areas and shared his leadership philosophy with the wing. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jason Huddleston)

    Roberson impressed by 59th MDW warrior medics

    Seeing first-hand how the 59th Medical Wing is “setting the standard” for innovation throughout the Department of Defense, Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson, commander, Air Education and Training Command, toured the Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center May 11 to get an inside glimpse of the organization.
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