By Rose Spaulding
EHH Correspondent
The Enlisted Heritage
House 2nd Annual Trunk
or Treat was held on Oct.
23, 2021, in the old housing
area located on Selfridge Air
National Guard Base. The
event was open to the mil-
itary community and DoD
civilians.
Over 200 trick or treat-
ers participated and gath-
ered treats from 35 festively
decorated trunks. Each trick
or treater was given tickets
at check-in to vote on their
favorite display with prizes
being awarded to best mili-
tary and best civilian trunk.
The EHH Military Hal-
loween Trunk First Place
Trophy, $200 gift card, and
one-year bragging rights
went to Coast Guard Air
Station Detroit. A terrifying
display, for those who dared
to enter, was created by Lt.
Cmdr. Adam Morehouse, Sr.
Chief Dace Coombes, and
Chief Trevor Sly.
“This event is a great op-
portunity for military and
civilian families to come
together and have a great
time,” said Lt. Commander
Adam Morehouse.
The First Place Civil-
ian EHH Halloween Trunk
Award went to Greg Polcyn.
Polcyn entertained trick or
treaters with his juggling
skills and took home a $100
gift card. Greg works for
PdM SKOT at TACOM. “Per-
forming for the kids sur-
rounded by the old Selfridge
neighborhood was the best
experience,” said Polcyn.
The Macomb County
Young Marines volunteered
to help with the event and
assisted with traffic and
distributed cider and do-
nuts at the Enlisted Heri-
tage House.
“The event was a huge
success,” said EHH Event
Trustee Maria Shibbish.
“It was wonderful to see
so many families, military
units, and organizations
from the military commu-
nity come together and have
a great time.”
COMMUNITY
PHOTO COURTESY OF ENLISTED HERITAGE HOUSE
Over 200 trick or treaters participated in the second annual
Enlisted Heritage House Trunk or Treat event, held Oct. 23
at Selfridge Air National Guard Base.
By Staff Sgt. Drew Schumann
127th Wing Public Aairs
Air Force medics and administra-
tors from the 127th Medical Group,
at Selfridge Air National Guard Base,
and the 110th Medical Group, at Bat-
tle Creek, Mich., recently took part
in Medical Facilities Annual Training
at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy.
“Training at an active duty hospi-
tal sharpens skills that medics are
not normally exposed to; such as pe-
diatric care, geriatric care, and treat-
ing members of the local population,”
said Captain Tandi Bailey, medical
administrator for the 110th Medi-
cal Group. “This training is impor-
tant because it not only gets our clin-
ical and medical teams the exposure
of an active duty hospital operations
tempo, but also maintains our clini-
cal currency, through medical train-
ing and readiness.”
Clinical experience of this na-
ture can only be achieved through
o-site training. Michigan Air Na-
tional Guard facilities have ambula-
tory medical facilities, which provide
medical and dental examinations,
vaccine distribution, flight physi-
cals, and other non-urgent care ser-
vices for its members. Like many ac-
tive-duty military facilities, NAS Sig-
onella hosts a hospital with advanced
services providing care for active ser-
vice members, and their families.
For many of the Airmen who at-
tended the MFAT, the hospital expo-
sure they received was a first for their
career, and could only be obtained
while working alongside medical col-
leagues from the Navy and Marine
Corp, as well as NATO allies from It-
aly.
“It has been great reviewing skills
that I haven’t done in a while, such as
administering IVs (Intravenous ad-
ministration,) and mechanical ven-
tilation,” said Senior Airman Kim-
berly Lai, Aerospace Medical Tech-
nician with the 127th Medical Group.
“I am hoping to bring back what I
learn, and provide it at Selfridge, to
continue being an asset to the Med-
ical Group.”
The training mission was 14 days
in total, and allowed for eight days
of in-hospital training. This not only
served as the two-week annual ser-
vice requirement for guardsmen, but
also provided ample time to accom-
plish training tasks that are neces-
sary for readiness.
“Completion of our medic’s train-
ing requirements is our goal,” said
Major Kathleen Wilbourn, Registered
Nurse and Team Chief, at the 127th
Medical Group. “Aerospace Medi-
cal Technicians need forty hours of
training in a hospital with emergency
room, and intensive care unit capabil-
ities, in order to be fully qualified in
their training requirements.”
Combining the roles of Licensed
Practical Nurse, Emergency Medi-
cal Technician and specialty techni-
cian (such as optometry, or dental,)
Aerospace Medical Service techni-
cians for the U.S. Air Force are spe-
cially trained, and highly adaptable,
to meet the critical needs of mili-
tary medical service and readiness.
Whether their career leads them to
work in a hospital, aboard a ship, on
an aeromedical evacuation aircraft or
at a deployed location, training such
as MFAT allows for Air Force medics
to be indispensable in providing high
levels of medical care.
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U.S. AIR NATIONAL GUARD PHOTO BY STAFF SGT. DREW SCHUMANN
NAS SIGONELLA, Italy- Airman First Class Stephen Conklin, Aerospace Medical Technician for the 127th Wing Medical
Group, remove stitches from a child at the temporary housing facility on NAS Sigonella, Italy, during Operation Allies
Refuge.
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