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  • 56 ARS Supports Combat Cardinal 2024

    Aircrew from the 56th Air Refueling Squadron supported Airmen from the 375th Air Mobility Wing during a readiness exercise called “Combat Cardinal,” at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, March 13, 2024.

  • ‘Combat Cardinal 2024’ rehearses home station, deployed readiness

    Airmen from the 375th Air Mobility Wing demonstrated their readiness skills during a combined mobility and mission assurance exercise called “Combat Cardinal,” which took place March 7 - 15.   Combat Cardinal was divided into two efforts: “Cardinal Sword” exercised the ability to rapidly deploy to

  • Scott aeromedical Airmen respond to emergency on Southwest flight

    Staff Sgt. Ashley Shirley was just 1 ½ hours into a commercial flight in June when she suddenly turned around and yanked the earbuds out of Capt. James Bickel’s head. “There’s an emergency in the back of the plane,” she quickly explained to him while motioning toward a passenger who was having an

  • Super Galaxy: AE’s biggest ally

    During a cold, gloomy first week of December, total force Airmen teamed up at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, to test the capability of the Air Forces largest aircraft to perform aeromedical evacuation during a proof of concept event.The goal was to establish the C-5M Super Galaxy as part of the

  • 375th LRS Airmen unload C-17

    Staff Sgt. Marcus Marshall and Senior Airman Van Aerrus Sanchez, 375th Logistics Readiness Squadron, guides a pallet of aeromedical evacuation equipment from a Tunner 60K aircraft cargo loader onto a forklift, June 20, 2018, at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. “While some of the things we do are very