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About Air Force Medical Service

"Trusted Care Anywhere" is the mantra of the Air Force Medical Service. Our priorities align with Air Force priorities to ensure mission success. we embrace our heritage of innovation and relentlessly pursue advances to enhance safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of care we deliver to beneficiaries and support we provide to Combatant Commanders.

Mission and Vision

AFMS Mission

Seamless health service support to the U.S. Air Force and combatant commanders

AFMS Vision

World-class healthcare for our beneficiaries anywhere, anytime

Strategies

Transform deployable medical capabilities for rapid response
Build patient-centered care and focus on prevention to optimize health
Invest in education, training and research to sustain our capabilities

Priorities

Our priorities align with the Air Force priorities and represent our tactical action plans to accomplish our mission.

Deliver best medical reliability for the nuclear mission
Enhance full spectrum medical capabilities to support winning today's fight
Implement patient-centered care to sustain healthy and resilient Airmen/families
Advance medical capabilities through research and infrastructure recapitalization
Build interoperability & medical acquisition expertise

AFMS History

Creation of the Air Force Medical Service
The Korean War
Aviation and Space Medicine in the Cold War
The Vietnam War
Readiness Reforms, 1979-1990
The Gulf War, 1990-1991
The 1990s, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Operations
The New Millennium
Readiness and other initiatives, pre-9/11
September 11, 2001 and Operation Enduring Freedom
Homeland Security
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Chronology of Air Force Surgeons General

AFMS Leaders


Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Charles B. Green Surgeon General	Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Thomas W. Travis Deputy Surgeon General	Chief Master Sgt. Charles R. Cole Chief, Medical Enlisted Force

AFMS Personnel

Total Force Personnel

Active duty	34,665
Reserve	9,374
Guard	6,095
Civilians*	6,818
Contractors*	3,750
TOTAL	60,702

*As of Dec. 1, 2011

Deployed Operations

AF Medics deployed	1,362
Countries/Locations	19/53
CENTCOM patients moved	>92,000

From October 2001 to December 2011

Homestation Operations

Eligible Beneficiaries	2.6 million
Visits	6.4 million
Admissions	39,404

A Day in AFMS

In one day, AFMS will have:

24,475 Outpatient Visits
222 Surgery Procedures
136 Same Day Surgeries
86 Inpatients
29 Babies Delivered
168 Inpatient Admissions
61,578 Prescriptions Filled
31,601 Lab Procedures
4,637 Radiology Procedures
6,306 Dental Encounters

Inside AFMS