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  • Critical Care Air Transport Team

    Location: Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center Phone: (210) 292-7553 DSN: 554-7553The Critical Care Air Transport Team operates an intensive care unit in an aircraft cabin during flight adding critical care capability to the U.S. Air Force Aeromedical Evacuation System. CCATT patients

  • 59th Medical Wing

     MISSION/VISIONThe 59th Medical Wing, located at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, is the Air Force's premier healthcare, medical education and research, and readiness wing. The wing's vision is "Exemplary Care, Global Response." Its mission is "Developing Warrior Medics Through Patient-Centered

  • Air Education and Training Command

    Air Education and Training Command, with headquarters at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, was established and activated in January 1942, making it the second oldest major command in the Air Force. AETC’s training mission makes it the first command to touch the lives of nearly every Air Force

  • Air Force Medical Service

    Air Force Medical ServiceThe Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) works in close coordination with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, the major air command surgeons, the Departments of the Army, Navy and other government agencies to deliver medical service for just over 2 million

  • Wilford Hall: the man

    Wilford F. Hall, the man after which the Air Force's flagship hospital would be named entered this world on Aug 12, 1904 in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. Born to a family of military physicians his life's course seemed already set from the beginning. His father, Dr. Andy Hall was U.S. Army Medical Corps