Maj. Eric Rausch, a Special Operations Surgical Team member with the 720th Operations Support Squadron, receives a Meritorious Service Medal during a ceremony at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, Feb. 13, 2017. Rausch was recognized for his actions while deployed as a SOST member, providing life-saving care to American and partner forces. SOSTs are highly-mobile, tailorable teams of surgical and emergency specialists trained to provide life-saving surgical care and trauma resuscitation on or near the battlefield. ( Air Force

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