166th Medical Group

February 27, 2009

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The diverse mission of the 166th MDG is, upon mobilization, to provide lifesaving medical care to the gaining major command, Air Mobility Command. Additionally, group members provide the same lifesaving care to our citizens when called to action by our governor, as was done in multiple hurricane evacuations. To this end, the 166th MDG operates the Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facility, previously a mission of the 142nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron.

At home station the group provides physical exam services for about 1,000 personnel assigned to the wing, ensuring our ability to fight, fly and win. 166th MDG members have deployed in force to Hurricanes Isabel, Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike.

In 2008 the group spearheaded a humanitarian aid mission to Delaware's State Partnership Program neighbor, the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago. That same year the group was the lead unit in a history making exercise bringing together the Delaware Emergency Management Agency, the Delaware Division of Public Health, the Delaware Army Guard aviation unit, the 142nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, the 142nd Airlift Squadron and the Veteran's Administration Medical Center in an exercise testing, for the first time, all the agencies that would respond in a real world emergency in Delaware.

The group has also deployed members around the globe; to Afghanistan, Iraq, Antarctica, Uzbekistan and Germany, to name just a few places.