{"id":183039,"date":"2024-05-22T22:15:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T22:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=183039"},"modified":"2024-05-23T02:06:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T02:06:37","slug":"medic-provides-care-to-those-searching-for-missing-wwii-airmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=183039","title":{"rendered":"Medic Provides Care to Those Searching for Missing WWII Airmen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n A 25-member team from the Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency, is in the Normandy region of France, searching for three missing airmen, whose C-47A aircraft was presumably shot down by German anti-aircraft fire on D-Day, June 6, 1944.\n<\/p>\n

While finding their remains is important, so is the health and well-being of the recovery team. Air Force Master Sgt. John Rinaldi, an independent duty medical technician, is tasked with providing medical care for the search team.<\/p>\n

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For civilians not familiar with the term, an IDMT is an enlisted medical provider, usually called a medic, who is utilized in forward-deployed locations for units conducting military operations. \u00a0<\/p>\n

With so many troops deployed around the globe, there just aren’t enough doctors to be in all places at all times, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“That’s why we get advanced training to handle a variety of medical issues,” he said, adding that all independent duty medics organically assigned to DPAA are nationally registered paramedics. Additionally, Rinaldi is a certified flight paramedic.<\/p>\n

That advanced training means he can diagnose, treat and prescribe medications within certain limits, just like medical providers do, he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“We stay pretty busy,” he said, meaning one other team medic and himself.<\/p>\n

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“After working all day, guys come up to see us with cuts, bruises, colds or stomach bugs and we take care of all that,” he said, noting that there’s been a lot of colds, given the cold, rainy and windy conditions that the team faced since arriving early April.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rinaldi also provides a lot of preventative care such as monitoring the sanitary conditions for water and food. In France, though, this isn’t a big issue, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Training to respond to medical emergencies is also important, he noted.<\/p>\n

Before deploying, Rinaldi had to determine where the local medical facilities are, what their capabilities are and what procedures are needed to take people there. Fortunately, there are a couple of large hospitals nearby, he said.<\/p>\n

Also, at the start of each mission, medics do casualty evacuation drills to freshen their skills, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to his medical work, Rinaldi pitches in with the rest of the team sifting through dirt in hopes of finding remains.<\/p>\n

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Rinaldi said he’s privileged to be on this mission “with a noble cause.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Charlotte, North Carolina, native has been an Air Force medic for nearly 17 years. His stepfather, who was a mechanical engineer in the Air Force, talked about his own service and influenced him to join, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He chats regularly with his stepfather and mother who still live in Charlotte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 25-member team from the Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency, is in the Normandy region of France, searching for three missing airmen, whose C-47A aircraft was presumably shot down by German anti-aircraft fire on D-Day, June 6, 1944. While finding their remains is important, so is the health and well-being of the recovery team. Air Force […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":183041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183042,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183039\/revisions\/183042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}