Rock Solid Warrior Published Oct. 11, 2010 SOUTHWEST ASIA -- This week's 386th Air Expeditionary Wing Rock Solid Warrior comes from the 386th Expeditionary Medical Group. Name: Senior Airman Rachel Mueller Unit: 386th Expeditionary Medical Group Job: Medical Control Center Technician Home unit: 88th Medical Support Squadron, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio How do you support the mission here? I work in the 386th Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility, which ensures that patients are medically and administratively prepared for safe air evacuation on all assigned fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, to include C-17s and C-130s. I input patients into the TRANSCOM Regulating and Command and Control Evacuation System for regulation by the Joint Patient Movement Requirements Center. I also track aeromedical missions transiting the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing here. I coordinate patients who are enplaning and deplaning with the nurse mission manager, and coordinate and track ground transport of patients to destination facilities in Southwest Asia. I also coordinate requests for medical support after normal duty, maintain an events log and track travel orders of medical group personnel. How many times have you deployed and what makes this deployment unique? This is my first deployment, so everything I have experienced here is completely new. It has been a great learning and life experience. How does your job differ in a deployed environment vs. home base? At home base, I am the outpatient records floor leader. I work five days a week in a job that takes place mostly behind the scenes. My primary responsibility is to ensure that patients' medical records are complete and readily available during appointments. At my deployed location, I work six days a week on 12-hour shifts, in an area that has 24/7 coverage to support the CASF mission. Though I am still behind the scenes, what I do here does not go unnoticed. If I do not complete what needs to be done administratively, patients in need of medical care are unable to be aeromedically evacuated, which could be detrimental to a patient's care and/or recovery time.