Air Guard Team Provides Critical Care Transport

By • on January 13, 2011

Air Guard Team Provides Critical Care Transport

By Air Force Lt. Col. Ellen Krenke
National Guard Bureau
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2011 – After a six-year hiatus, the Air National Guard is back in the critical care air transport team business.

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Air Force Brig. Gen. John Owen, right, a Missouri Air National Guard member who is the Air Guard advisor to the command surgeon of Air Mobility Command, talks with Air Force Col. Bruce Guerdan of the Florida Air Guard, second from left, and Master Sgt. Jody Nitz of the Michigan Air Guard, left and back to camera, after he lands at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany, Jan. 9, 2011. Owen worked with AMC to provide the Air Guard medical personnel needed for critical care air transport teams. Guerdan and Nitz are members of the first Air Guard CCATT deployed to Ramstein. In the right foreground is Air Force Maj. Joey Jackson of the Tennessee Air Guard, an air operations officer deployed to Ramstein. U.S. Air Force photo by Lt. Col. Ellen Krenke