Some US Air Force medics in Afghanistan, working with the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team recently employed their health care skills—along with interpreters and other support personnel—among some passing Nomads. The medics, operating as the PRT’s medical civic action program, or MEDCAP, noticed the Kuchi people on their spring migration to the high country for the summer. According to the Bagram Bullet, this was the airmen’s first MEDCAP experience since arriving in the Panjshir Province earlier this month, and they learned, by treating infants to elders, that they needed to set up at least one of their medical bags for family medicine rather than trauma.
After years of describing to lawmakers and Pentagon leaders the nature of that threat and the key role spacepower plays in deterring conflict in the domain and enabling the rest of the joint force, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters during AFA’s Warfare Symposium here that the message appears to…