Medical unit from March Air Reserve Base off on new mission, this time to Guatemala -

Published on Sunday, August 17, 2008
By JOE VARGO

MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE - Members of a March Air Reserve Base humanitarian relief team use one word to describe their two-week deployment to a semirural community in Guatemala: busy.

The 31-members of the 163rd Medical Group are taking their training into a real-world mission, treating as many as 8,000 patients for an assortment of maladies.

The doctors, physician's assistants, and medical and dental technicians expect to pull rotten teeth, stitch cuts, lance boils, salve burns and rashes, inject vaccines, set broken bones, fit children and adults for eyeglasses, maybe even deliver a baby or two.

"It's an eye-opening and humbling experience," said Lt. Col. David Emery, troop commander of the California Air National Guard deployment. "When it's all over, you feel like you've done something good Read Full Article...

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