Put a neurosurgical team in Afghanistan and it will get civilian referrals. Egyptian doctors referred an 8-month-old Afghan girl to the newly deployed neurosurgical team at the Air Force-led Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram AB, Afghanistan. The neurosurgeon, Lt. Col. Randall McCafferty, performed two surgeries to remove a cyst on the child’s brain, correcting a congenital brain abnormality that could have proved fatal. (Report by 1st Lt. Clinton Nawrocki.)
Active-Duty Airmen only have a few days left to submit an official waist-to-height ratio into the Air Force’s new online application. But the service clarified July 23 that this first body composition measurement is not meant to be scored as part of the new Physical Fitness Readiness Assessment, or PFRA