Randolph Medical Group realigned under 59th Medical Wing

Maj. Gen. Tom Travis, 59th Medical Wing commander (left), passes the 359th Medical Group guidon to its commander, Col. Soledad Lindo-Moon, Feb. 1 at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, during a ceremony that realigned the medical group under the 59th MDW. (U.S. Air Force photo by Sue Campbell)

Kenya

1st Lt. Earl Thomas, entomologist assigned to Brooks City-Base, Texas, uses a Ruggedized Advanced Pathogen Identification Device to test sand fly samples during the Vector-borne and Infectious Disease Field Diagnostic Development Initiative in Marigat, Kenya, Jan. 11. The Air Force officer was part of a medical team that traveled to Africa to study the flies, which transmit a parasitic disease, Leishmaniasis. (U.S. Air Force Photo By Senior Airman Josie Kemp)

Kenya

Army Lt. Col. (Dr.) Todd Vento, infectious disease fellow, and Army Capt. (Dr.) Becky Abell, emergency medicine resident (right), both from Brooke Army Medical Center at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas, examine a patient at the regional Kala-Azar clinic in Marigat, Kenya, Jan 9. The physicians traveled to Kenya to research the rare disease Leishmaniasis. (U.S. Air Force Photo By Senior Airman Josie Kemp)

Kenya

Maj. Keith Blount, Air Force entomologist, takes traps out into a field to capture sand flies, which carry Leishmaniasis, during the Vector-borne and Infectious Disease Field Diagnostic Development Initiative in Marigat, Kenya, Jan 9. (U.S. Air Force Photo By Senior Airman Josie Kemp)

First-ever nursing poster session

1st Lt. Tia Hutto, clinical nurse, 59th Medical Inpatient Squadron, explains her poster to Maj. Gen. Tom Travis, commander, 59th Medical Wing, at the first-ever nursing poster session Jan. 20 in the Wilford Hall Medical Center atrium, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. There were 20 posters set up to be judged by Col. Kimberley Cox, chief nurse executive, 59th Medical Wing. The poster session will be held twice each year in January and August to increase nursing research projects. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Nicole Roberts)

Lackland playgroup

One-year-old Ophelia Paquin plays with toys at the Lackland playgroup Jan. 14 in the Admiral Boorda Building, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The Lackland playgroup is for children ages 0-4. It is ran by the Family Advocacy Program and meets every Thursday from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The playgroup recently moved to the Admiral Boorda building which belongs to Children Achieving Maximum Potential, or C.A.M.P. (Air Force photo by Senior Airman Nicole Roberts)