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.”
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