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Airmen use special experience to foster relationships during Global Health Engagement
April 11, 2017 — A team of five Airmen, two with a special experience identifier earned through the International Health Specialist (IHS) program, traveled to Tegucigalpa, Honduras to work side-by-side with their Honduran air force counterparts during a subject matter expert exchange here, April 3. Airmen with an IHS certification were able to provide diversified international skills and knowledge of military and civilian health disciplines used to facilitate the five-day engagement by enabling flight medicine knowledge to be shared across a language barrier, which helps strengthen partnerships. ... MORE

U.S. Air Force Capt. Ricardo Sequeira, 628th Medical Operations Support Squadron and 14th Airlift Squadron flight surgeon, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, right, talks to a member of the Honduran air force about flight medicine during an aerospace medicine subject matter expert exchange in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, April 4. The goal of the global health exchange is to share best practices, enhance relationships, and build partnership capacities.

U.S. Airmen share aerospace medicine best practices with Honduran counterparts
April 11, 2017 — Five U.S. Airmen conducted a subject matter expert knowledge exchange with their Honduran counterparts to share best practices and increase partner nation capacities in aerospace medicine from April 4-6... MORE

Honduran air force Subteniente Auxiliar Sanidad Obed Antonio Contreres Fuentes, left, talks to U.S. Air Force Capt. Diego Torres, center left, Detachment 4, 375th Operations Group flight nurse instructor and evaluator, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Staff Sgt. Gabriel Trujillo, center right, 779th Medical Operations Squadron paramedic, Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, and Capt. Leslie Whiting, 88th Aerospace Medicine Squadron aerospace nurse manager, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, as part of a subject matter expert exchange in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, April 4. The global health engagement brought U.S. and Honduran counterparts together to build and strengthen partner relationships.

U.S., Honduran air force share best medical practices
April 11, 2017 — Five U.S. Airmen conducted a subject matter expert knowledge exchange with their Honduran counterparts to share best practices and increase partner nation capacities in aerospace medicine from April 4-6... MORE