flight surgeon

noun

flight surgeon

a medical officer specializing in aviation medicine in the US and certain other air forces

First recorded in 1920–25

Life experience: U.S. Air Force flight surgeon, OB/GYN in private practice.

You were a flight surgeon for the 1st Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne).

He was another Special Ops flight surgeon and his sole responsibility was to cover the interrogation facility.

In 1991, as a flight surgeon during the first Gulf War, she was taken prisoner when her helicopter was shot down in Iraq.

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