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Human Patient Simulators provide realistic training
Maj. Marilyn Thomas, a critical care nurse from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., looks at one of the human patient simulator manikins inside the Air Force’s Centers for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (CSTARS) at University Hospital Cincinnati. Maj. Thomas, already a flight nurse for aeromedical evacuation missions, is training to become a critical care air transport team (CCATT) member. CSTARS Cincinnati trains CCATT members and evaluates their readiness to fly missions downrange. (U.S. Air Force photo/Derek Kaufman)
Simulator provides realistic training for medics
Operating in the dim red glow simulating the back of a C-130 in flight, Capt. Derek Brumley checks equipment monitoring a critical care “patient.” Capt. Brumley, a native of Barstow, Calif., is a critical care nurse and an instructor for the Air Force’s Centers for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (CSTARS) at University Hospital Cincinnati, which trains Air Force critical care air transport team members. (U.S. Air Force photo/Derek Kaufman)
CSTARS flight watch
Master Sgt. Angelique Boshonek, Sharon Walsh-Hart and Dan Donegan operate the human patient simulator from a control room at University Hospital Cincinnati. The facility provides highly realistic training for critical care air transport teams and simulates an Air Force airlifter in flight. Master Sgt. Boshonek is a cardiopulmonary technician, Ms. Hart is a emergency room nurse and contract C-STARS simulation coordinator, and Mr. Donegan, director of simulation education. All are part of the Air Force’s Centers for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (CSTARS) training cadre at University Hospital. (U.S. Air Force photo/Derek Kaufman)
Simulator trains Air Force CCAT teams
Master Sgt. Angelique Boshonek, operates the human patient simulator from a control room at University Hospital Cincinnati. The facility provides highly realistic training for critical care air transport teams and simulates an Air Force airlifter in flight. Master Sgt. Boshonek is a cardiopulmonary technician and part of the training cadre for the Air Force’s Centers for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (CSTARS) at University Hospital. (U.S. Air Force photo/Derek Kaufman)
ASC commander meets Brooks City-Base team
Lt. Gen. Thomas Owen (center), is briefed on the latest use of the Brooks City-Base hyperbaric chamber to study traumatic brain injuries, by Col. James Weissmann, chief of the Aerospace Medicine Education Division with the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, and Col. Charles Fisher, USAFSAM commander. General Owen is Aeronautical System Center commander at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo/Joe N. Wiggins)
ASC commander meets Brooks team
Lt. Gen. Thomas Owen is briefed by Wayne Isdahl from the 711th Human Performance Wing at Brooks City-Base, Texas, on capabilities of the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine centrifuge, as the general sits in the centrifuge's gondola. The centrifuge is used to train pilots and aircrew members of the effects of high g-forces on the human body and how to handle those forces. General Owen is Aeronautical System Center commander at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo/Joe N. Wiggins)
Airman 1st Class Gerard Cerameau
Airman 1st Class Gerard Cerameau waits on the next text message from his friend in Haiti, to give him updates on his family. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Ted Theopolos)
Airmen deopying
Airman First Class Sami Mofadi stands with Steve and Brenda Cox (left) and Trevor Cox (right) during an interview with local media before deploying for Southwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force photos by Ben Stasser)
Airmen deopying
Staff Sgt. Mark Kambell hugs his wife Clarissa, before climbing on the bus to be transported out to the aircraft to depart for Southwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force photos by Ben Stasser)
88 SFS Deployment
Staff Sgt. Christopher Klein (left) and Tech. Sgt. Jason Grant (right) just arrived at building 143 to receive a transportation briefing before being transported out to the aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photos by Ben Stasser)
Bellbrook students send wounded warrior greetings
Senior Airman Tre Porfirio (center), Airman First Class Ahja Nock, and Lt. Col. Rick Johns, hold a banner of get well wishes from Bellbrook (Ohio) Middle School students Dec. 29, 2009 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Porfirio is recovering after a groundbreaking Thanksgiving Day surgery when doctors removed his damaged pancreas, harvested islet cells and transplanted them into his liver. A communications technician with the 88th Communications Squadron, Senior Airman Porfirio was shot in the back by an insurgent while deployed with an Army unit to Afghanistan. Nock is a mental health technician with the 88th Medical Operations Squadron and Johns is commander of the 88th Communications Squadron. All three Airmen are assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (courtesy photo)
AFIT expanding cyber education
Senior Master Sgt. Michael Woelfle of AFIT's Center for Cyber Research at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is newly assigned to develop the upcoming Cyber Professional Continuing Education curricula. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Two brothers from Dayton taught the world to fly
Col. Brad Spacy and Stephen Wright place a wreath at the Wright Brothers Memorial overlooking Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on Dec. 17, 2009 during a ceremony marking the 106th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first powered flight. Mr. Wright is the Wright Brothers’ great grand-nephew and Col. Spacy is 88th Air Base Wing commander. (U.S. Air Force photo/Bonnie White)
First Flight
After donning a costume reminiscent of the turn of the century, Brig. Gen. Paul Sampson tells the story of Dayton, Ohio’s most famous inventors, Wilbur and Orville Wright, during a ceremony Dec. 17, 2009 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The general was keynote speaker for a ceremony marking the 106th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first powered flight. Brig. Gen. Sampson is mobilization assistant to the commander of Aeronautical Systems Center. (U.S. Air Force photo/Bonnie White)
First Flight
Members of the Wright Family and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base placed a wreath at the Wright Brothers Memorial Dec. 17, 2009 during a ceremony marking the 106th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first powered flight. Amanda Wright Lane, great grand-niece of the brothers and Stephen Wright, great grand-nephew, pose with Col. Brad Spacy (l) and Brig. Gen. Paul Sampson (r). Col. Spacy is 88th Air Base Wing commander, and Brig. Gen. Sampson is mobilization assistant to the commander of Aeronautical Systems Center. (U.S. Air Force photo/Bonnie White)
First Flight
Orville Wright at the controls of the 1903 Wright Flyer during the first successful powered flight Dec. 17, 1903 at Kittyhawk, N.C., while Wilbur Wright looks on. The first flight at 10:35 a.m. was 120 feet and lasted 12 seconds. The 106th anniversary of the event will be celebrated Dec. 17, 2009 at the Wright Brothers Memorial, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Today, visitors to Wright-Patt and the Dayton region can learn about the Wright Brothers at the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. (Library of Congress)
Program prepares Air Force nurses for rigors of deployment
The U.S. Air Force and University Hospital Cincinnati celebrated a one year partnership with the graduation of 14 new Air Force Nurse Transition Program nurses on Dec. 4, 2009. The NTP provides college graduate registered nurses the advanced clinical training and experience needed to become Air Force Nurse Corps officers and to prepare them for the rigors of deployment. (U.S. Air Force photo/Laura McGowan)
Program prepares Air Force nurses for rigors of deployment
2nd Lt. Erin Wood draws blood from a central line during training with the Air Force Nurse Transition Program at University Hospital in Cincinnati. The program celebrated its first year in operation with the graduation of 14 new Air Force nurses on Dec. 4, 2009. Lieutenant Wood hails from Tonganoxie, Tenn. (Photo courtesy of University Hospital Cincinnati)
New AFMC vice commander confirmed
Lieutenant General Janet C. Wolfenbarger was confirmed by the Senate Dec. 4, 2009 to three-star rank as Air Force Materiel Command vice commander. She is the Air Force's highest ranking female officer. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Band of Flight returns to Dayton Masonic Center
The U.S. Air Force Band of Flight at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, will perform free public holiday concerts at the Dayton Masonic Center, Dec. 11 – 13. (U.S. Air Force image)