Story by André B. Sobocinski, Historian | U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery | 09.20.2023
Beginning in September 1947, as Egypt was in the throes of a deadly cholera outbreak, Navy Medicine went into action. Working in tandem with personnel at the Abbassia Fever Hospital in Cairo, Navy Medicine began vaccinating the local population and conducting vital research for treating cholera. The efforts would ultimately have a lasting impact on the lives of millions of people across the......
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 11.16.2022
On November 15, 1945, the 400th Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) Detachment in Cairo inactivated after supporting counterintelligence missions in the Middle East. During its three years in the theater, the CIC became popular amongst U.S. personnel and Allied counterparts who were formerly unfamiliar with the CIC organization....
Story by Staff Sgt. Kevin Schulze | 175th Wing, Maryland Air National Guard | 06.22.2019
Navy Reserve Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Robbie Klahn, a dental technician assigned to the Expeditionary Medical Facility, Great Lakes, celebrates his 20 year anniversary of joining the Navy today during an Innovative Readiness Training mission in Cairo, Ill., June 22, 2019. Klahn runs the Central Sterilization Room for the dental department of the Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation......
Story by Staff Sgt. Kevin Schulze | 175th Wing, Maryland Air National Guard | 06.20.2019
Military medical personnel are receiving hands-on training experience during the Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation Tri-State Innovative Readiness Training 2019 mission where service members from the Air Force, Navy, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, and Navy Reserve are operating a no-cost health clinic to the surrounding communities of Cairo, Ill.; Sikeston, Mo.; and Barlow,......
Story by Staff Sgt. Kevin Schulze | 175th Wing, Maryland Air National Guard | 06.19.2019
Military medical personnel from across the Air Force, Navy, Air National Guard, Air Reserve, and Navy Reserve are providing no-cost health care to Cairo, Ill., and the surrounding community, during the Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation Tri-State Innovative Readiness Training 2019 mission. The health clinics serve as hands-on training for the medical teams to receive real world......
Story by Staff Sgt. Kevin Schulze | 175th Wing, Maryland Air National Guard | 06.18.2019
Doctors, optometrists, dentists, and various medical technicians from across the Air Force, Navy, Air National Guard, Air Reserve and Navy Reserve have come together for the Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation Tri-State Innovative Readiness Training 2019 mission designed to provided military medical personnel with hands-on training experience. The DAEOC Tri-State IRT 2019 has opened......
Story by Staff Sgt. Kevin Schulze | 175th Wing, Maryland Air National Guard | 06.17.2019
Navy Hospital Corpsmen here are operating side by side with their Air Force counterparts to offer no-cost health care to the surrounding community through the Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation Tri-State Innovative Readiness Training 2019 mission....
Story by Staff Sgt. Kevin Schulze | 175th Wing, Maryland Air National Guard | 06.15.2019
Cairo Jr./Sr. High School lost power this morning during an Innovative Readiness Training mission that provides a no-cost health clinic to the surrounding community in Cairo Ill. Service members from the Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, active duty Air Force, and Navy Reserve continued treatment for patients during the black out....
