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  • Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program

    Department of Air Force offers Total Force enlisted members’ bridge to med school, commission

    Total Force enlisted Airmen and Guardians wanting to become commissioned officers and military healthcare providers can complete their preparatory coursework for admission to medical school while on active duty.
  • A Keesler first responder conducts medical assessments during the Ready Eagle Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear exercise at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, Aug. 6, 2021. The exercise tested the base's ability to respond to and recover from a mass casualty event. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jasmine Galloway)

    Keesler participates in Ready Eagle exercise

    The 81st Training Wing Inspection Team hosted a full-scale Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear exercise for base personnel here, Aug. 2-6. The exercise was a collaboration between the 81st TRW and the 81st Medical Group to integrate the 81st TRW’s annual exercise with the medical Ready Eagle training exercise. Ready Eagle consisted of functional exercises and hands-on drills to increase the skill, proficiency and coordination between organizations within the wing.
  • Airman 1st Class Megan Crow-Elmore, 81st Medical Group aerospace medical technician, prepares a syringe containing the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine inside the Keesler Medical Center at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, May 19, 2021. Crow-Elmore is part of the COVID-19 Task Force, made up of medical workers from various units in response to the pandemic. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jasmine Galloway)

    The force combating COVID-19

    Continuing in a course of action despite difficulty or delay in achieving success is the definition of perseverance, which describes what many people found essential since COVID-19 rocked the world. “Everything changed when COVID-19 hit,” said Airman 1st class Megan Crow- Elmore, 81st Medical Group aerospace medical technician. “Manning was a bit stretched and I was eventually pulled from the student health clinic to join the COVID-19 Task Force. “I went to doing vaccines every day and it got me out of my comfort zone.”
  • U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Andrea Roberts, 81st Medical Support Squadron medical technician, participates in the Tactical Combat Casualty Care training program inside the Locker House at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, March 30, 2021. The training offers hands-on training in a simulated deployed environment using evidence based, life saving techniques and strategies to provide the best trauma care possible on the battlefield. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kemberly Groue)

    Teaching comprehensive combat care

    Members of the 81st Medical Group have been training in new evidence based, life saving techniques and strategies to provide the best trauma care possible on the battlefield. The Tactical Combat Casualty Care training offers more hands-on training in a simulated deployed environment, initially taking place at the Naval Construction Battalion Center soccer field. The transportation of materials, mannequins and personnel to the center led to complications in scheduling, leading to the application for moving training to an unused facility.
  • U.S. Air Force Capt. Amber Gibbons, 17th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron officer in charge of the student clinic, examines a prop prescription bottle while assessing a patient during the final exercise of the Tactical Combat Casualty Care course at the Mathis Fitness Center on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Feb. 7, 2021. During the exercise, candy was used to imitate the combat pill pack, which allowed the medics to administer the needed ‘medication’ based on simulated injuries. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Deven Schultz)

    Goodfellow partners with 14th MDG to administer TCCC

    Goodfellow Airmen joined with members of the 14th Medical Group from Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, to complete the Tactical Combat Casualty Care course here, Feb. 7.
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