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ROCK SOLID WARRIOR

  • Published
  • 386th Expeditionary Medical Group
SOUTHWEST ASIA --  Senior Airman Jesse Caton

Job: Aerospace Medical Technician

Home unit/base: 88th Inpatient Operations Squadron, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

How do you support the mission here? I work in the EMEDs here at the Rock, providing emergency care to anyone who needs it. I get to respond to 911 calls ranging anywhere from a sprained ankle to a broken leg. I've seen fainting patients, a lot of colds and even put sutures in a patient's leg. It's a lot of excitement and a great privilege to know you are helping someone.


How many times have you deployed and what makes this one unique? This is actually my first deployment, but it's lived up to all my expectations of what a deployment should be. Relying on your fellow Airmen during hard times, doing your job to the fullest of your abilities and living "excellence in all we do." I'm very grateful that my first deployment is the Rock. It's been a good one.


How does your job differ in a deployed environment vs. home base? At my home station, I work in an inpatient unit. So the patients we see there are less trauma and more assisting. You go to work every day and, though the patient load may change, you still kind of know what to expect. Whereas here you never really know what's coming. One day you can be checking in a patient for a head cold, and then the next be putting sutures in someone's leg. Just knowing that at any minute you could get a call that someone's passed out at the gym, or that a rollover has happened and there's a patient that needs your help is very exciting.