Keesler’s flying surgeon to lead air mobility command

KEESLER AFB, Miss. - Keesler Medical Center Commander Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Kory Cornum - who encouraged the innovative "Hospital Without Walls" concept allowing flight surgeons and critical care air transport teams to share their expertise across the Gulf Coast region -- has been selected to become the Air Mobility Command Surgeon at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. He will be succeeded by Col. (Dr.) Thomas Harrell, commander of the Defense Department-Veterans Affairs Joint Venture Hospital at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. The change of command ceremony will be March 28. KMC partners with the Air Force Reserve Command's 403rd Wing's medical unit here to support KMC’s Total Force flying mission, including tactical airlift and the weather reconnaissance capability of the "Hurricane Hunters." Cornum also served an operational deployment, while assigned to the 58th Fighter Squadron at Eglin AFB, Fla., in support of Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Source: Keesler AFB, Feb. 4, 2014.