An Air Force-led contingent of US military medical personnel partnered with the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan, Belize, to provide medical care to local residents as part of a larger training exercise, announced exercise officials. The 13-day event, which concluded on April 30, was part of US Southern Command’s annual New Horizons humanitarian-assistance training with partner nations in Latin America, states a May 1 release. The Air Force and Army medical personnel carried out ear, nose, and throat surgical procedures on patients in a fully functioning operating room that they created and also supplied hearing aids to local residents, according to the release. “Being a surgeon in the Air Force, I have learned a ton about what it takes to work in austere conditions and working with a team of individuals from multiple bases,” said Maj. Brent Feldt, ENT resident at the San Antonio Military Medical Center at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston, Tex. (Belmopan report by TSgt. Tony Tolley)
Members of the Air Force Reserve’s 920th Rescue Wing helped save 11 airplane crash survivors off the coast of Florida on May 12. The Reserve Airmen were flying an HC-130J Combat King II and an HH-60W Jolly Green II on a routine training flight when a Coast Guard call diverted…