• U.S. Air Force Medical Personnel gain a new perspective during FA HUM 2011

    With hospital operations well under way, the U.S. Air Force medical personnel that form the Expeditionary Medical Support Health Response Team, started seeing patients at 8:00 a.m. at Cumuto Barracks here in support of the Fuerzas Alidas Humanitarias (FA HUM 2011) or Allied Forces Humanitarian

  • DGMC Airmen use skills and training on deployment

    Even though the David Grant USAF Medical Center has one of the largest areas of responsibilities, as well as an extensive mission, the hospital can still afford to deploy its troops to locations where their help is needed urgently. At the Craig Joint Theater Hospital on Bagram Airfield,

  • Health Response Team treats local citizens during FA HUM 2011

    Praises of gratitude and appreciation were heard in the operating room of the Health Response Team facility when a local man from Trinidad and Tobago thanked Lt. Col (Dr) Mark Scherrer, 60th Medical Group general surgeon, for removing a benign tumor from the back of his head."He was so happy," said

  • Air Force tests new Health Response Team in Trinidad and Tobago

    More than 40 U.S. Air Force medical personnel from the 60th Medical Group at Travis Air Force Base along with four Contingency Response personnel from Joint Basr McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst AFB gathered here to test a new Expeditionary Medical Support Health Response Team in support of Fuerzas Alidas

  • FA HUM 2011 Kicks Off in Trinidad and Tobago

    More than 150 U.S. military personnel and military and civilian officials from Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, Canada, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, and the Republic of Suriname gathered here to participate in the annual Fuerzas Alidas Humanitarias (FA HUM 2011) or Allied Forces

  • Getting the point: DGMC solves a sharp issue

    In response to feedback received from patients and the Travis community on the Commander's action line, sharps containers and drop-off stations are now available throughout David Grant USAF Medical Center. Patients who use needles or syringes for their medical care now have a safe way to dispose of

  • Kindness: Helping those in need is its own reward

    I remember well, in the early 80s when someone coined the phrase, "practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty." It started a veritable flood of random acts of kindness that reverberated around the world. A nonprofit organization was even started in 1995, The Random Acts of Kindness

  • Do you know the truth ... about yourself?

    "The unexamined life is not worth living" - SocratesThere is a risk associated with success and a great risk associated with great success. As you rise in rank it's easy to start believing you are smarter, better looking and less fallible when a quick glance in a mirror would reveal the truth. Do

  • Volunteers aid pets during Operation Pacific Passage

    For nearly a week, a small portion of the Travis Air Force Base passenger terminal was filled with barking, growling, and even a few "oohs" and "ahhs." Men and women returning to the U.S. from Japan as part of Operation Pacific Passage were accompanied by not only their spouses and children, but

  • Photo essay: Team Travis welcomes last flights from Japan

    by Asante Garrott60th Air Mobility Wing Public AffairsMilitary family members arriving from Japan began their inprocessing here from March 22 with the final flight arriving March 28. Family members voluntarily departed Japan following the recent natural disaster.View the slideshow.