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Naval dental researcher, others honored during Heroes of Military Medicine San Antonio Awards
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas - U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Travis Reyes was recognized as a Hero of Military Medicine Ambassador honoree during the 2024 Heroes of Military Medicine San Antonio Awards Program held at The Red Berry Estate. The awards program, hosted by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., recognized exception community leaders who advance military medicine in and around the greater San Antonio area. Reyes was an observer/aerial gunner on a MV-22 Osprey training flight that crashed on the Tiwi Islands off the coast of Darwin, Australia on Aug. 27, 2023. Requiring immediate intensive care, he was treated at Royal Darwin Hospital and subsequently transferred to the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, where he spent approximately two months in the Intensive Care Unit. In a groundbreaking effort, the Department of Defense’s only Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation team collaborated with the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center to orchestrate a complex retrieval mission to bring Reyes to BAMC once he was in better conditions. This mission was the longest ECMO retrieval in history and marked the first ECMO unit circuit change performed in a moving aircraft. (U.S. Navy photo by Burrell Parmer)


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