Fighting multiple fights: The life of a flight surgeon

[The Patriot]

From fighting off sickness on the ground, to fighting an enemy in the air, a flight surgeon holds a set of skills crucial to any unit.When he isn’t seeing patients, Capt. Brett Lindstrom, a 335th Fighter Squadron flight surgeon assigned to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, is gearing up as a weapons systems operator to accompany a pilot in the back of an F-15E Strike Eagle dual-role fighter aircraft.


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