SUU Offers Medical Training for Triple Deuce and Others iology professor MaryJo Tufte and alumni Gregory BBarnes and Lisa Moore worked together to provide
the 222nd and SUU students with an invaluable training.
Medics stationed with the 222nd National Guard partnered with the Walter Maxwell Gibson College of Science and Engineering to offer unprecedented semesterly medical training for the medics and SUU students in pre-med, pre-nursing and nursing programs. Second Lt. Gregory Barnes and Lisa Moore of Classic Air, both SUU alumni, worked with Biology professor MaryJo Tufte to set up the training to provide the students and medics hands-on experience with cadavers that they likely would not have received for many years to
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come. “I have been in the military for 30 years,” said 222nd Executive Officer Gerald Williams. “But this is the first time that I have actually been able to get hands on training.” “For us to be able to come in here and have this hands-on opportunity, to be able to put together everything that we have been reading in the books, it is phenomenal,” he said. “Actually being able to come and do this here in a non-stressful environment where people aren’t shooting at you, or if you make a mistake it is not going to cost him his life, I can’t even put together words to say thank you to SUU for this opportunity.”