AFMS News Roundup

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Some optical news: a team from Wilford Hall (WHMC), Sheppard AFB, and an Army unit deployed to St Kitts - tough assignment! - and provided optometric care to hundreds of villagers. The good folks at Lions Clubs also helped by providing donated eyewear. And retired Colonel Stephen Waller, the former chief of ophthalmology at WHMC, is still serving in a new capacity; he “deployed” to Iraq with a mobile “crash cart” to provide care to hundreds of Iraqis.

And the long march towards consolidation continues: Wilford Hall Medical Center and Brooke Army Medical Center, the two bastions of military medical care in San Antonio, are moving closer to becoming an integrated “San Antonio Military Medical Center” (aka SAMMC). Of course, if you were in San Antonio in the late 80s/mid 90s, this might sound vaguely familiar: you might recall “JMMC” - the Joint Military Medical Command. This current effort to integration, however, is likely to be permanent, as it has the force of BRAC behind it.

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