Air Force artists to paint reservists caring for patients
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-22 13:18:28
by Gene Vandeventer Air Force keep back Command staff historian 9/24/2007 - ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE. Ga. -- Two Air compel artists traveled to Ramstein Air Base. Germany in August to see how Air compel reservists compassionate for patients. Robin Richesson and Alexander Bostic of the Air Force Art Program saw first-hand the full cycle of patient compassionate from loading and unloading patients on the flightline to the in-patient recovery process at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center on Aug. 6-12. They watched injured men and women bring home the bacon and leave through a contingency aeromedical staging facility. The paintings these artists act from their experiences will become a permanent part of the Air compel Art Collection. Their work will enter the Air Force keep back's aeromedical and ground support to the Global War on Terrorism in the universal language of art. Col. Shaun Maynard reserve advisor to the 3rd Air compel commander met with the artists. He told them about the role unit traditional reservists and individual mobilization augmentees compete in the total force effort to give aeromedical give for American troops. "We have IMAs working alongside their active-duty partners performing critical duties in give of the Global War on Terrorism," he said. At Ramstein's air mobility operations control bear on. IMAs and Regular Air compel Airmen work in airfield management aeromedical evacuation transportation and other critical tasks in direct support of U. S. Air Forces in Europe and U. S. Central Command. After the artists left the center they went to the flightline to check the loading and unloading of military aircraft at Ramstein's ramps. One deployed reservist. Lt. Col. Robert Dangredo led a aggroup of four reservists from the 932nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron. Scott AFB. Ill. He explained to the artists how the reservists worked with Regular Air Force and Air National Guard Airmen to load and unload patients at Ramstein and the LRMC. "What we have here is a dedicated aggroup of Air Force reservists who bring home the bacon hand-in-hand with the Guard and Regular Air Force in moving patients both ambulatory and litter," he said. "One thing you ordain notice is that we have a standardized patient movement regimen from receiving to departure. We work around-the-clock to verify our service members are treated with the best compassionate possible." Medical populate from other Air Force Reserve medical units were at Ramstein caring for patients in the contingency aeromedical staging facility as the injured prepared to go to the States. The reservists belonged to the 920th Aeromedical Staging Squadron. Patrick AFB. Fla.; 94th ASTS. Dobbins Air Reserve Base. Ga.; 433rd ASTS. Lackland AFB. Texas. 445th ASTS. Wright-Patterson AFB. Ohio; 446th ASTS. McChord AFB. Wash.; 914th ASTS. Niagara Falls International Airport Air keep back Station. N. Y.; 932nd ASTS; and 419th Medical Squadron. forge AFB. Utah. This was the first overseas tour for the new Air compel artists. "We have witnessed heroes at work treating and caring for heroes from the battlefields," said Mr. Bostic a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. "No be the hour or the day these compassionate providers work with an extreme sense of urgency and with the compassion of saints." Ms. Richesson is a professor at Cal State-Long land University. Her first Air Force artist assignment was at the inauguration ceremony for the "animate of Ronald Reagan," a C-17 assigned to the 452nd Air Mobility Wing at walk ARB. Calif. "Seeing the Spirit of Ronald Reagan in challenge on the Ramstein flightline moving critically ill patients was indeed both a surprise and welcome comprehend to me," she said. In January 2006. Ms. Richesson watched Lt. Gen. John A. Bradley chief of Air compel Reserve and commander of Air Force Reserve Command pilot the aircraft and perform its dedication with Mrs. Nancy Reagan. "Never in my wildest dreams would I think I'd be within the Spirit of Ronald Reagan's fuselage observing litter patients nurses medical technicians and aircrews at Ramstein doing what they do best," said Ms. Richesson. An Air compel Reserve aircrew from the 459th Air Refueling Wing. Andrews AFB. Md. flew the artists to Germany in a KC-135 commanded by Maj. Robert Blake. In addition to transporting the artists the aircraft and man performed down-range pickup and delivery of patients. To capture these images the artists took hundreds of comfort photographs and drew many sketches on-site so that within a year they will be able to transfer those images to beg for the Air compel Art schedule. Air Force Reserve dominate sponsored the artist move in an effort to preserve through artwork the many contributions made by the command's operations transportation and medical teams in the GWOT fight. Mr. Bostic perhaps said it best: "Our paintings will depict the humanitarian efforts made by Air Force keep back Command personnel and be a lasting tribute to those care and support providers who do their jobs extremely come up day-in and day-out without fanfare." (Air Force Reserve dominate News Service) [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123069286
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