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flight surgeon

n.
An air force physician who specializes in aeromedicine.
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She also discusses Myhr's typical day as the 50 TCS's flight surgeon and then proceeds to directly quote Craven's and Crate's The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol.
* A nonrated member of a flight crew is an officer or enlisted Soldier who does not have the aeronautical rating of Army aviator or flight surgeon. (4)
The following morning I went to see the flight surgeon. He put me on seven days of light LIMDU--not my idea of a good time after being on deployment for only four days.
[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Rank Typical Positions Held 0-3 captain for Army and Staff officer (clinician working in Air Force, lieutenant in a hospital or clinic), small clinic Navy, Coast Guard/Public or department chief, operational Health Service (PHS) assignments to include--battalion or brigade surgeon, flight surgeon, dive medical officer.
From the Air Force we had me, the flight surgeon, a flight nurse, and an aeromedical evacuation technician.
The patient had no subsequent neck pain episodes that were reported to his flight surgeon or chiropractic physician over the ensuing 6 months and deployed to the combat theater without incident.
Through the Eyes of a Tiger is Hoyland's fascinating account of his year as a flight surgeon in the early days of the Vietnam War.
Air Force Afghanistan (8.00pm) Taliban insurgents launch a night attack on Kandahar air base, and a French flight surgeon offers her expertise to Afghan villagers..
One of the men developing the sport is ex-NASA flight surgeon Dr Jonathan Clark - whose wife Laurel died in the 2003 Colombia space shuttle disaster - magazine New Scientist revealed yesterday.
(Dr.) David Alexander, a NASA flight surgeon and Texas Air National Guardsman with the 149th Fighter Wing.
A flight surgeon said she was fine but still adjusting to Earth's gravity.
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