Military Medics Advance Trauma Care: Air Force Reserve Command surgeon Col. Jay Johannigman—on his third combat tour—says that today’s military medic “has re-emerged as a leader and innovator, leaning forward and taking home important medical lessons.” One such innovation is the use of a shunt, or plastic tube, as a temporary means to couple two ends of a torn blood vessel. Johannigman, who works as trauma director at University Hospital in Cincinnati, says, “That is unheard of in the states.” (Read more here.)
An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.