A Day on the Job with Combat Medics
SOUTHWEST ASIA – Senior Airman Keith Libby (right), 379th Expeditionary Medical Group combat medical technician, reads the blood pressure of Staff Sgt. Danielle Diaz, 379th EMDG combat medical technician, during a training exercise Nov. 14, 2012. All Air Force combat medics are certified to be emergency medical technicians. The medics are required to know all operations inside an ambulance and how to properly take care of the patient while in the ambulance as EMTs. Libby is deployed from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., and is a native of Apple Valley, Calif. Diaz is deployed from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., and is a native of Minot, N.D. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Joel Mease)