'ANGELS' STILL AT WORK Published May 3, 2008 By Staff Sgt. Jason S. Weiss Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. -- We want to sincerely thank you for the cover story titled "Avalanche Angels" in your January/February 2008 issue of Torch. The article provided a great depiction of what we do as independent-duty medical technicians during rescues. IDMTs are the first people tossed out of the helicopter and usually the last ones to get any recognition, so it was very nice for the IDMT career field to get noticed. The pictures were amazing, as well. We have a great need to display them for in-house training and to show the new guys different aspects of our job. Thanks for the letter. Update: The 36th Rescue Flight got another save March 10. The rescue team had to use night vision goggles and forward looking infrared to find a 15-year-old boy who was lost near the Schweitzer Ski Resort, 11 miles north of Sandpoint, Idaho. Master Sgt. Jason Oldenberg, an IDMT featured in the story "Mountain Rescue" (page 17), picked the teen up. Oldenberg had to be lowered via a 120-foot rescue hoist to assess the survivor's condition and assist with the extraction. The teenager, who had been lost for several hours, was cold but unharmed. He was safely delivered to a civilian emergency medical team and into the arms of his parents.