Gerald Flint Aerospace Medical
Technician, US Air Force Reserve.
 
Twelve years ago, while military doctors rushed to
the assistance of soldiers, American combat field medic
Gerald Flint saw civilians dying on the battlefields
of the Gulf War. So, while stationed in Kuwait City
in 1991 at the outset of the war, Flint founded
Volunteer Medics Worldwide, an organization that
now has more than 80 volunteers in 11 countries and
has completed 35 disaster relief missions. In addition
to receiving donations of medicine, eyeglasses, and
schoolbooks, to date, Flint has spent US$100,000 of
his own money on Volunteer Medics Worldwide.
When off-duty from his current job as an aerospace
medical technician with the
US Air Force reserve near St. Louis, Missouri,
Flint, also a physician
assistant and LVN,
teaches and provides treatment to individuals in African
countries, Bosnia, the Czech Republic, Turkey, and
Romania. He does everything from delivering babies
to patching people up after they've been injured.
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Article published on Jul 29
04 12:59AM.
Originally published in the
Spring 2003 issue of MedHunters Magazine. |
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