LAMAT 2026 builds on last year’s mission by sending U.S. medical teams across the Caribbean to provide essential care, strengthen partner-nation healthcare systems, and maintain military medical readiness. Working alongside local providers, the teams will deliver clinical services, share expertise, and support long-term capacity building — reinforcing regional resilience and deepening AFSOUTH’s partnerships through hands-on humanitarian medical cooperation.
Inside an operating room at St. Jude Hospital, U.S. Air Force and Saint Lucian surgeons stood shoulder to shoulder around a patient whose treatment options had once been limited by geography and resources.
By the end of the procedure, they had accomplished something never before documented on the island.
During the Lesser Antilles Medical Assistance Team 2026 mission, a combined U.S. and Saint Lucian surgical team performed the first-known...