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  • Airmen with the 157th Medical Group, Detachment 1, setup a mobile medical tent during a New England CERFP mass casualty training exercise, Nov. 5, 2019, Brunswick, Maine. The exercise simulated the collapse of a chemical manufacturing building. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Aaron Vezeau)

    Pease Airmen participate in multi-state disaster training exercise

    Forty-five Airmen from the 157th Air Refueling Wing joined Army and Air National Guardsmen from three New England states to participate in a medical rapid response training exercise in Brunswick, Maine, Nov. 4 - 8.
  • Senior Airman Jesse D. Hyam and Staff Sgt. Alexander J. Barnhart, medical search and extraction team members assigned to the 157th Medical Group, N.H. Air National Guard, work to lift debris during a simulated exercise on April 11, 2018 at Joint Base Cape Cod, Mass. Hyam and Barnhart participated in a weeklong regional deployment readiness exercise as members of the N.H. CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package team. (N.H. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Kayla White)

    New England CERFP prepares for evaluation

    Vehicles laid overturned in the road, fires burned high, downed power lines draped low across the wreckage and people, trapped under debris, cried out for rescue.
  • U.S Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Amanda Harriman, Medical Technition, CERFP Medical Response Team, assigned to the 157th Medical Group at Pease Air National Guard Base, N.H. completes a pre-entry vitals check on U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Joe Spinelli, CERFP search and extraction team member, assigned to the 861st Engineer Company, R.I. National Guard, during the notional mass casualty CERFP New England Exercise held at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Thomas Johnson)

    CERFP New England, always ready, always there

    More than 200 Airmen and Soldiers from the Rhode Island, Maine and New Hampshire National Guards came out to the rolling hills of Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania to participate in a multi-day training exercise called CERFP New England August 7, 2017.

  • TRICARE benefits for National Guard and Reserve service members

    TRICARE is hosting a webinar to educate TRICARE beneficiaries about benefits available to National Guard and Reserve service members. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, from 12 noon to 1 p.m.No prior registration is required. Participants are invited to join using the following access link:
  • Operation Supplement Safety aims to help Airmen make informed, responsible decisions on supplement use.

    Keeping Airmen healthy and informed through Operation Supplemen Safety

    For peak performance, Airmen should eat healthy and exercise regularly. But in the quest to gain an "edge," many Airmen resort to dietary supplements.Enter Operation Supplement Safety, or OPSS. This Defense Department educational campaign, accessible at www.hprc-online.org/opss, educates the warfighter and healthcare provider on responsible dietary
  • U.S. Air Force Maj. Robert D. Groves and Nepalese optometry professionals assess patients for additional care at a health services outreach site in Manahari, Nepal, Sept. 8, 2014. Operation PACANGEL helps cultivate common bonds and foster goodwill between the U.S., Nepal and regional nations by conducting multilateral humanitarian assistance and civil military operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Melissa B. White/Released)

    NHANG optometrist participates in PACANGEL

    A N.H. Air National Guard optometrist recently participated in Operation Pacific Angel-Nepal, a six-day joint exercise that is an annual humanitarian assistance mission. Maj. Robert D. Groves, assigned to the 157th Medical Group, provided direct assistance to Nepal citizens as part of the optometry team during the exercise sponsored by U.S. Pacific

  • AF ensures command visibility on substantiated sex-related offenses

    Air Force officials announced a new policy requiring the inclusion and command review of information on sex-related offenses in personnel service records Sept. 30.The change was directed in the fiscal year 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, requiring the services to document this information in service member personnel records."Sexual

  • 157 MDG POD exercise, flu shot line scheduled for Nov.

    The 157th Medical Group will conduct their annual Point of Dispensing, also known as POD, exercise using the seasonal flu vaccine Nov. 1 during the November Unit Training Assembly.Dispensing of the vaccine will begin in Hanger 251 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. This vaccine is a mandatory for all military members. If members have been vaccinated already
  • NAVAL STATION NEWPORT, R.I. – U.S. Air Force Capt. Tori Scearbo, 157th Medical Group nurse, treats a patient alongside other medical staff during a maritime exercise intended to conduct mass medical care and triage to patients March 29 at the Naval Station Newport. Members of the New England Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High-Yield Explosives team, or CERFP team, conducted a full scale exercise in order to increase readiness posture and facilitate improved catastrophic responses with multi-agency partners. The exercise also was intended to test the team’s ability to run maritime operations. (N.H. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Mark Wyatt/RELEASED)

    Maritime exercise readies 157 ARW CERFP team

    Members of the New England Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High-Yield Explosive Enhanced Response Force Package, or also known as the CERFP team, gathered to conduct a full scale exercise to increase readiness posture and facilitate improved catastrophic responses with multiagency partners here March 29.The team deployed to the
  • Keeping Airmen healthy and informed through Operation Supplement Safety (AF Graphic / Steve Thompson)

    Keeping Airmen healthy and informed through Operation Supplement Safety

    For peak performance, Airmen should eat healthy and exercise regularly. But in the quest to gain an "edge," many Airmen resort to dietary supplements.Enter Operation Supplement Safety, or OPSS. This Department of Defense educational campaign, accessible at www.hprc-online.org/opss, educates the warfighter and healthcare provider on responsible
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