Air Force Medical Services honors 81st MDG members

Published Feb. 10, 2010
By Steve Pivnick
81st Medical Group Public Affairs

KEESLER AFB, Ms. -- The 81stMedical Group has earned five Air Force Medical Services awards -- four for individuals and one for a team.

Staff Sgt. Capri Shand won the Chief Master Sgt. Harvey A. Cain nutritional medicine award in the airman category and Maj. Stacey Van Orden earned the field grade dietitian nutritional medicine award. Both are assigned to the 81st Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron nutritional medicine flight.

Staff Sgt. Matthew Colica, 81st Medical Support Squadron logistics flight, was recognized with the biomedical equipment repair noncommissioned officer medical logistics award.

Senior Airman Ashli Maldonado, 81st Medical Operations Squadron diagnostic imaging flight, received the Chief Master Sgt. Anton Zembrod diagnostic imaging technologist award.

Airman Maldonado was on temporary duty when the award was announced Feb. 1.

The 81st MDSS clinical research laboratory received the team Category III laboratory medicine award.