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Ronny Jackson: “The 82nd Medical Group at Shepherd must provide care for…”

Featuring: Ronny Jackson, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Texas, District 13

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'We Need More Bodies': Ronny Jackson Sounds The Alarm On Short-Handed Air Force Medical Staff

Published | Video Starts at 00:51

As a result, major training installations like shepherd, which produce 48%, which produces 48% of our tech training graduates, and 50% of all US fighter pilots experience severe manpower shortfalls relative to their actual day to day workload. For example, The 82nd Medical Group at Shepherd must provide care for more than half of the Air Force's annual throughput of airmen in training. as well as for student pilots in the Euro NATO Euronato jet pilot training program. Yet none of these rotational trainees are captured in the base's UMD authorizations. (00:51–00:59)

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Asserts that the 82nd Medical Group provides care for over half of the Air Force's annual airmen in training.

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