Superbug. The word evokes the image of a giant bug rampaging through city streets killing everyone in its path. While this scenario is more Hollywood than World Health Organization, concerns over superbugs are real. We live in a time when we expect that if we get sick, there is a medicine to help us get better.
Renamed AFCC and assigned with Air Corps to newly created Army Air Forces by Army Regulation 95-5 (revised), June 20, 1941. Formally abolished in the reorganization of the AAF, effective March 9, 1942, by Circular 59, War Department, March 2, 1942, implementing provisions of EO 9082, February 28, 1942.
The United States Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) consists of the five distinct medical corps of the Air Force and enlisted medical technicians. The AFMS was created in 1949 after the newly independent Air Forceâs first Surgeon General, Maj. General Malcolm C. Grow (1887â1960), convinced the United States Army and President Harry S. Truman that the Air Force needed its own medical service.