By Senior Airman Lawrence Sena, 92nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs / Published May 06, 2021
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Daschia Lawrence, 92nd Healthcare Operation Squadron medical technician, prepares equipment for a COVID-19 vaccine administration at the Community Vaccination Center (CVC) at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul, Minnesota, April 27, 2021. The total-force members include the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army and U.S. Coast Guard from 24 bases across the country supporting the CVC. U.S. Northern Command, through U.S. Army North, remains committed to providing continued, flexible Department of Defense support to the Federal Emergency Management Agency as part of the whole-of-government response to COVID-19. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alexi Bosarge)
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Tech. Sgt. Brandon Costello, 921st Contingency Response Squadron operations expediter, participates in a circuit training workout at the Nose Dock Gym at Travis Air Force Base, Thursday, April 15, 2021. Travis is one of several bases trying a Lifestyle and Performance Medical Clinic approach to health care. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Travis tries new approach to health care
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE Travis Air Force Base is one of several bases trying a Lifestyle and Performance Medical Clinic approach to health care in an effort to help airmen live happier, healthier lives.
The program takes a patient-centered, evidence-based method to preventing, treating and potentially reversing the effects of diseases by looking at the entirety of an airman’s health and how various aspects such as diet, sleep, physical wellness and emotional health are intertwined.
Tens of thousands of U.S. vets living overseas left to find COVID vaccine doses on their own 1 day ago A vial of the COVID-19 vaccine and a syringe sit on a table at the Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station in Pennsylvania on Jan. 28. (Joshua J. Seybert/Air Force) When Congress passed legislation last month to expand COVID vaccine distribution to all veterans and caregivers, Marine Corps veteran Wayne Beverly
hoped
he’d be able to get an appointment through his local U.S. embassy. Instead, the expatriate living in Thailand has been frustrated to find out that enrollees in the Department of Veterans Affairs Foreign Medical Program are still on their own to find doses.
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31 It’s incumbent upon members of the Armed Forces to uphold the value of service before self at all times, in and out of uniform.
Master Sgt. Kira Cox, 2nd Operational Medical Readiness Squadron human performance flight chief, embodied this core value, one late February night, when she pulled a man from a smoking car after a major vehicle accident.
“There wasn’t even a second thought,” Cox said. “I saw him just flailing around, so I said ‘let me go open the door and help this guy.’”
While visiting her mother’s house late one evening in Jackson, Mississippi, Cox heard the crash of a loud noise and went to investigate.