Photo by Tech. Sgt. Cindy Au-Wiafe | Louisiana National Guard | 06.19.2024
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Shannon Fussell, 159th Medical Group provider and Tropic Care MEDIC-X trainer, demonstrates the incentive spirometer, an exercise that allows a patient to gain confidence and boost their strength after strenous medical procedures, to U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Thomas Friloux, Louisiana National Guard adjutant general, during a MEDIC-X course at Kauai Community College during......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Cindy Au-Wiafe | Louisiana National Guard | 06.19.2024
U.S. Air Force Capt. Richard Ponthier III, 159th Medical Group critical care air transport team trainer, demonstrates incentive spirometer, an exercise that allows a patient to gain confidence and boost their strength after strenous medical procedures, during a MEDIC-X course at Kauai Community College during Tropic Care 2024, June 19, 2024. The Kauai Community College has been instrumental......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Cindy Au-Wiafe | Louisiana National Guard | 06.19.2024
U.S. Air Force service members practice measuring blood pressure manually during a MEDIC-X course at Kauai Community College during Tropic Care 2024, June 19, 2024. Tropic Care 2024 allows service members to meet the needs of an underserved community while simultaneously taking a course like MEDIC-X; MEDIC-X is an Air Force Surgeon General program that trains all medical personnel base-level......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Cindy Au-Wiafe | Office of the Secretary of Defense Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) | 06.19.2024
U.S. Air Force service members practice spinal immobilization techniques during a MEDIC-X course at Kauai Community College during Tropic Care 2024, June 19, 2024. The Kauai Community College has been instrumental during the Innovative Readiness training by allowing the Tropic Care 2024 service members to train in their nursing facility and use of modern medical equipment that they would not......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Cindy Au-Wiafe | Office of the Secretary of Defense Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) | 06.18.2024
Distinguished visitors pose for a group photo during Tropic Care 2024 at Kapa’a Middle School in Kauai, Hawaii, June 18, 2024. Tropic Care Kauai 2024 is an Innovative Readiness Training Event partnered with the Hawaii Department of Health that grants service members from all branches the ability to get real world training while also providing critical healthcare services to an underserved......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Cindy Au-Wiafe | Louisiana National Guard | 06.18.2024
U.S. Navy hospital corpsman Lillian Moore, an optician assigned to Naval Opthalmic Readiness Activity, briefs about the prescription eyewear manufacturing process to distinguished visitors U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Chance Pasley, 144th Medical Group Detachment 1 commander, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Thomas Friloux, Louisiana National Guard adjutant general, USAF Col. David Anderson, 159th Fighter......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Cindy Au-Wiafe | Office of the Secretary of Defense Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) | 06.17.2024
U.S. service members from the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard come together to process patients through the dental clinic during Tropic Care 2024 at Kapa’a Middle School in Kauai, Hawaii, June 17, 2024. Tropic Care Kauai 2024 is an Innovative Readiness Training Event partnered with the Hawaii Department of Health that grants service members from all branches the ability to get real......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Cindy Au-Wiafe | Louisiana National Guard | 06.17.2024
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Ariel Steib, dental technician from the 159th Medical Group, and Lt. Cdr. John Zhang, a dentist from the 4th Dental Battalion, sterilize dental equipment during Tropic Care 2024 at Kapa’a Middle School in Kauai, Hawaii, June 17, 2024. Providing no-cost healthcare to the island of Kauai allows the U.S. armed forces to connect with local communities while......
