Team provides medical care in Dominican Republic

Maj. (Dr.) Javier Tapia, a physician with the 908th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., checks a Dominican baby during MEDRETE 2010 Dominican Republic on May 24, 2010. A team of 39 medical specialists from Air Force Reserve Command is providing medical care to four towns in the Puerto Plata region of the country. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Chance C. Babin)

Team provides medical care in Dominican Republic

Staff Sgt. Laurie Blake, a medical technician with the 927th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., checks a Dominican patient's blood pressure during MEDRETE 2010 Dominican Republic on May 24, 2010. A team of 39 medical specialists from Air Force Reserve Command is providing medical care to four towns in the Puerto Plata region of the country. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Chance C. Babin)

Team provides medical care in Dominican Republic

Maj. (Dr.) Rodney Friend, a physician with the 927th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., checks a Dominican patient's blood pressure during MEDRETE 2010 Dominican Republic on May 24, 2010. A team of 39 medical specialists from Air Force Reserve Command is providing medical care to four towns in the Puerto Plata region of the country. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Chance C. Babin)

Medics face added challenges in Suriname

U.S. Ambassador to Suriname Lisa Bobbie Schreiber Hughes and Col. Nina J. Gilberg of the of the 934th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Air Reserve Station, Minn., meet with officials in Suriname during the Air Force Reserve Command unit's deployment to the South American nation. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. Jerry Hall)

Medics face added challenges in Suriname

Staff Sgt. Mackenzie Schroeder of the 934th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Air Reserve Station, Minn., takes care of a Surinamese soldier who came down with Shigella's disease during the sergeant's deployment to Suriname in the summer of 2008. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. Jerry Hall)

Arctic Care

Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Lisa Lewis, a medical specialist with Air Force Reserve Command's 22nd Air Force at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga., checks a patient's blood pressure before his medical appointment at the clinic in Port Lions, Alaska. Sergeant Lewis was part of a 70-person medical team participating in Operation Arctic Care 2008. During the week-long, Department of Defense Innovative Readiness Training deployment in March 2008, doctors, nurses, optometrists, dentists, veterinarians and their assistants from the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard saw and treated hundreds of patients who live in the remote, underserved villages of Kodiak Island. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Celena Wilson)