Story by Senior Airman Ty Pilgrim | 1st Special Operations Wing | 11.04.2025
Air Commandos assigned to the 1st Special Operations Wing conducted casualty evacuation training aboard an MC-130J Commando II, Nov. 4, 2025....
Story by Staff Sgt. Natalie Fiorilli | Air Force Special Tactics | 12.20.2024
For Air Force Staff Sgt. William Flaspoehler, an independent duty medical technician with the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Florida, providing life-saving care is almost second nature....
Story by Staff Sgt. Samuel Earick | 8th Fighter Wing | 11.16.2023
KUNSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea -- Considered by his peers to be the jack-of-all-trades for flight medicine, Staff Sgt. Emanuel Lookadoo, 8th Operations Medical Readiness Squadron independent duty medical technician, was selected as Kunsan Air Base’s Pride of the Pack for the week of Nov 13-17. Lookadoo was nominated for his outstanding work ethic in keeping the Airmen of Kunsan AB......
Story by 1st Lt. Cameron Silver | 8th Fighter Wing | 05.11.2023
8th Medical Group Airmen honored nurses, emergency medical technicians, operational medical technicians and independent duty medical technicians during National Nurses Week, May 6-12, 2023....
Story by Airman 1st Class Emily Saxton | 36th Wing | 08.14.2022
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam – As a first responder in the U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Finn Tipps, an independent duty medical technician assigned to the 36th Contingency Response Support Squadron, knew exactly what to do when he came across a civilian who crashed his moped, while he was driving across the island....
Story by Senior Airman Jessi Roth | 18th Wing | 04.08.2022
KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- An independent duty medical technician assigned to the 44th Fighter Squadron, recently employed her life-saving knowledge to aide a Japanese man on a train after he passed out due to what may have been a case of hypoglycemia at the Yukohashi train station in Fukuoka, Japan, March 28, 2022....
Story by Staff Sgt. Jacob Derry | 39th Air Base Wing | 11.22.2021
Airmen from the 39th Medical Group attended medical training at the Acıbadem University's Center of Advanced Simulation and Education, the only center of its kind, Oct. 26-28, in Istanbul....
Story by Airman 1st Class David Lynn | 4th Fighter Wing | 07.13.2021
For some people leaving work is the end of their duty day. No more thinking about work, just enjoying their time off. For Staff Sgt. Jon Paul Fitzgerald, 336th Fighter Squadron independent duty medical technician, or IDMT, that was not the case....
