Feb. 6, 2024 82nd Medical Group enhances training and readiness through Ready Eagle exercise The 82nd Medical Group participated in a Ready Eagle exercise to strengthen training and readiness in response to mass casualty events recently. Ready Eagle is a training program funded through the Defense Health Agency to amplify Medical Contingency Response Home Station readiness, team integration
March 24, 2021 Place: MHS supports military's ability to have overmatch against foes Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Ronald Place, Defense Health Agency director and 35-year Army veteran, visited the 82nd Medical Group at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, March 22, 2021, reinforcing the idea that their mission support the National Defense Strategy.
Jan. 28, 2021 Sheppard personnel receive first round of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Sheppard AFB received its first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine on Jan. 20 and soon began administering the serum in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Defense guidelines. The DoD prevents disclosing the number of vaccines received or those administered to
April 9, 2020 Sheppard 1 of 5 AETC bases to use new COVID-19 test kits Sheppard AFB is one of five bases in Air Education and Training Command selected to receive new BioFire UEA test kits, which will knock down the turnaround time for COVID-19 results to potentially minutes instead of days, according to AETC.