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Students from international air forces attend, too. In 2010, 65 students from 46 countries took courses. The school has a partnership with Wright State University in which flight surgeons may earn a master’s degree in aerospace medicine, and SAM instructors volunteer at Wright State, said Dr. Farhad Sahiar, director of WSU’s Division of Aerospace Medicine. Four Air Force flight surgeons have graduated and four others are enrolled, he said.<\/p>\n
The Dayton Development Coalition and community leaders lobbied to have more Air Force missions such as the school locate to Wright-Patterson with the last BRAC, broadening the base’s footprint.<\/p>\n
“It’s a one-of-a-kind,” said Maurice “Mo” McDonald, a vice president of military affairs at the coalition and a retired Air Force officer. “This doesn’t happen anywhere else. They are the one-stop shop for medical training for the United States Air Force.<\/p>\n
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