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WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, relocated to the base as part of the Base Realignment and Closure law, has more than 60 civilian jobs and about 50 military officer jobs to fill.
The medical training, research and epidemiological lab testing center relocated from Brooks City-Base, Texas, in San Antonio to Wright-Patterson as part of BRAC.
Farhad Sahiar, director of the Division of Aerospace Medicine at Wright State University, said with the Air Force training more pilots to operate unmanned aerial vehicles than manned aircraft, the excitement of being a flight surgeon working with flight crews may have “dissipated” for some.
Multiple deployments to the Middle East also may bring difficulty in filling ranks, he said, and some doctors who settled with their families in San Antonio may have chosen to stay there.
Wright State, though, has quadrupled students enrolled in its flight surgery ranks in Dayton.
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