SAN ANTONIO – (Oct. 17, 2024) – 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. Presenting the award was retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Caravalho Jr., MD, president and CEO of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (HJF), joined by U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Benjamin Watson, commanding general, Training and Education Command (TECOM). The awards program, hosted by the HJF, recognized exception community leaders who advance military medicine in and around the greater San Antonio area. The event brought the story of Military City USA’s unique military and civilian medical research and clinical care collaborations to national and global attention. Reyes, of Oxon Hill, Md., 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 (ECMO) team collaborated with the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) 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, NAMRU San Antonio Public Affairs/Released)
| Date Taken: | 10.17.2024 |
| Date Posted: | 10.18.2024 14:02 |
| Photo ID: | 8705415 |
| VIRIN: | 241017-N-ND850-1009 |
| Resolution: | 2100x1500 |
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| Location: | SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, US |
| Hometown: | OXON HILL, MARYLAND, US |
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