{"id":568602,"date":"2019-01-17T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1734098\/growing-air-forces-space-medicine-culture\/"},"modified":"2019-01-17T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:05:00","slug":"growing-air-forces-space-medicine-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=568602","title":{"rendered":"Growing Air Force\u2019s space medicine culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As space continues to play an increasingly critical role in our nation\u2019s defense, the need for the space medicine specialty grows. Medical Airmen within U.S. Air Force Space Command are making sure space operators are ready for future readiness requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpace is no longer a neutral, docile domain,\u201d said Col. Walter \u201cSparky\u201d Matthews, AFSPC Command Surgeon. \u201cIt has become a contested environment where many state and non-state actors actively seek to disrupt U.S. space capability.\u201d<br \/> <br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2019\/Jan\/17\/2002080573\/82\/55\/0\/190117-F-FT687-001.PNG' alt='Medical Airmen assigned to U.S. Air Force Space Command are charged with delivering care to the Airmen who launch, monitor and operate the Air Force\u2019s satellite systems. As space continues to play an increasingly critical role in our nation\u2019s defense, medical Airmen in AFSPC are also preparing for the future of space medicine. (U.S. Air Force illustration)' \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As space continues to play an increasingly critical role in our nation&rsquo;s defense, the need for the space medicine specialty grows. Medical Airmen within U.S. Air Force Space Command are making sure space operators are ready for future readiness requirements.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Space is no longer a neutral, docile domain,&rdquo; said Col. Walter &ldquo;Sparky&rdquo; Matthews, AFSPC Command Surgeon. &ldquo;It has become a contested environment where many state and non-state actors actively seek to disrupt U.S. space capability.&rdquo;<br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2019\/Jan\/17\/2002080573\/82\/55\/0\/190117-F-FT687-001.PNG\" alt=\"Medical Airmen assigned to U.S. Air Force Space Command are charged with delivering care to the Airmen who launch, monitor and operate the Air Force&rsquo;s satellite systems. As space continues to play an increasingly critical role in our nation&rsquo;s defense, medical Airmen in AFSPC are also preparing for the future of space medicine. (U.S. Air Force illustration)\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2868,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593046,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568602\/revisions\/593046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}