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SSgt Latasha Andrew and Husband Delton Andrew
BARKSDALE AFB, La. (KSLA) — Before you end up in a dental chair in the Barksdale Air Force Base dental clinic, you have to see Staff Sgt. Latasha Andrew.
“We have 5,300 active-duty personnel here,” she says. “I make sure that everybody comes in on time to get their dental exams and treatments done.”
Andrew is a dental technician on the base. But inside the dental clinic, her official title is the Air Force Dental Readiness Assurance Program monitor. “That’s a mouthful,” she said. While she’s quite the character, she takes her job very seriously.
“Most times you don’t have dentists out in the field,” she said. “You may have a medical doctor, but you don’t have an actual dentist. So just imagine having someone down range having a tooth emergency and then having to come back.
“So I think most members don’t get that portion of it,” Andrew continued. “But this is where we come in just to make sure we’re educating members. Or if I have to harass them or call them all the time, I will.”
Andrew recently celebrated four years in the Air Force. She never imagined her life in the small Caribbean island of Dominica would…
SSgt Latasha Andrew and Husband Delton Andrew
BARKSDALE AFB, La. (KSLA) — Before you end up in a dental chair in the Barksdale Air Force Base dental clinic, you have to see Staff Sgt. Latasha Andrew.
“We have 5,300 active-duty personnel here,” she says. “I make sure that everybody comes in on time to get their dental exams and treatments done.”
Andrew is a dental technician on the base. But inside the dental clinic, her official title is the Air Force Dental Readiness Assurance Program monitor. “That’s a mouthful,” she said. While she’s quite the character, she takes her job very seriously.
“Most times you don’t have dentists out in the field,” she said. “You may have a medical doctor, but you don’t have an actual dentist. So just imagine having someone down range having a tooth emergency and then having to come back.
“So I think most members don’t get that portion of it,” Andrew continued. “But this is where we come in just to make sure we’re educating members. Or if I have to harass them or call them all the time, I will.”
Andrew recently celebrated four years in the Air Force. She never imagined her life in the small Caribbean island of Dominica would…
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