Mary Hawkins spent 13 months flying the wounded out of the Pacific Theater, becoming one of the few women to be awarded the ...

For the first time, School of Nursing (SON) students in the University of Delaware’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) Detachment 128 stepped onto a C-130 aircraft to get a glimpse ...

CINCINNATI — On any given day, Air Force Major Jessica Blair could be 40,000 feet in the air, tending to our nation’s wounded as a flight nurse. When we caught up with her, she was doing the one thing ...

When he arrived in Afghanistan on Aug. 18, 2021, during the chaotic final weeks of America’s war there, Air Force Lt. Col. Jayde Sharp didn’t know what to expect. Sharp had deployed to Hamid Karzai ...

Veterans Day honors men and women who have served in the US armed forces. During 24 years in Air Force medicine, Mary Smith, a retired Air Force nurse practitioner, had put in many long, hard days.

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas — A street at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland was renamed May 5, 2023, to honor U.S. Air Force Capt. Mary Klinker, a flight nurse who died while serving in ...

A Minnesota Air National Guard officer who helped treat more than 20 patients during the chaotic August 2021 evacuation of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan will receive the ...

SALEM, S.C. (WSPA) – Sheri Biggs story in the service isn’t like most. While caring for veterans in a long-term care setting, she decided she wanted to serve her country on another level. After ...

LA JOLLALA JOLLA — Just as she had done for him more than 50 years ago, U.S. Army veteran John Baca kept Angela Liakos in his sight and under his care on a warm Saturday afternoon atop Mount Soledad ...

“The nurses could not do enough for us. We knew they truly cared about us. They gave us the best treatment possible, and I saw them cry when a patient died.” This is one of many powerful comments from ...

Air Force Maj. Brandon Bailey, 332nd Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron medical crew director, awaits the arrival of patients from a forward operating base in Mosul, Iraq, on Sept. 23, 2008.