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Oct. 22, 2022
Tactical Medical Augmentation Team increases combat medical capability

The 920th Rescue Wing’s Aeromedical Staging Squadron developed an agile, embedded medical team that will bring a new level of patient care directly to the battlefield.
Aug. 5, 2022
AF Week in Photos

This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
Aug. 5, 2019
Academy cadets’ invention to support battlefield Airmen awarded patents

A team of Air Force Academy cadets took on this exact challenge while completing their mechanical and systems engineering degrees in 2016 and now their technology has been awarded three patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Jan. 24, 2018
Air Force to enhance physical fitness test, standards for select career fields

The Air Force began the rollout of Tier 2 physical training standards as more than 100 Battlefield Airmen demonstrated new career field specific testing components at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, Jan. 9, 2018.
Sept. 3, 2017
BA instructors set up JBSA-Seguin ATC for Hurricane Harvey relief efforts

As Hurricane Harvey relief efforts continue, battlefield Airmen instructors have joined in to assist airfield management operations at the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Incident Support Base at Joint Base San Antonio-Seguin, Texas.
June 23, 2017
Battlefield Airmen incentive pay to be based on skill versus duty

Based on new authority from the Defense Department, the Air Force announced its intent to begin a pilot program providing battlefield Airmen skill incentive pay based on qualified skills versus performed duties.
June 7, 2017
68th Rescue Flight transitions to 68th Rescue Squadron

As one of the only human based weapon systems in the Air Force, Guardian Angel must have highly trained personnel dedicated to the Air Force core function of personnel recovery. Guardian Angel is comprised of combat rescue officers, pararescuemen, and survival, evasion, resistance, and escape
May 25, 2017
BLUE: Recruit, train, educate

Recruit, Train and Educate. That's the motto of Air Education and Training Command. In this episode we show the Instructors training the next generation of Airmen for today's battlefield.
July 27, 2016
59th Medical Wing treating AF’s elite human weapons system

Comprehensive, synergistic medical care from the 59th Medical Wing is helping produce the Air Force’s elite, battle-ready combat warriors at the new Battlefield Airmen Training Group at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.
July 12, 2016
Around the Air Force: July 12

In this look around the Air Force, eight new bases are nominated as possible battlefield Airmen training bases, a new undershirt helps keep Airmen cool, and a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate makes the Olympic team.
July 8, 2016
Battlefield Airmen use science to beat the heat

Heat-related illness is a critical factor when personnel are operating in extreme temperatures. Dr. Reginald O'Hara and his exercise physiology research team at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, are working to reduce that heat stress.
June 7, 2016
Around the Air Force: June 7

On this look around the Air Force, President Barack Obama speaks at the U.S. Air Force Academy’s commencement ceremony; battlefield Airmen get their own training group; and an update on C-130J Super Hercules aircraft destined for Yokota Air Base, Japan.

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