After receiving more than 900 reports of problems with IVC filters over the last five years, federal regulators are warning doctors to remove the filters, which are meant to prevent pulmonary embolisms, before they can break free inside the patient and do damage. The FDA issued a safety alert this week for inferior vena cava (IVC) filters.
7th Special Forces Group Facilities eglin air force base, fl BTA partnered with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District to provide comprehensive design services for major new facilities to accommodate the relocation of the Armyâs 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) â Green Berets â from Ft. Bragg, North Carolina to Duke Field (Eglin AFB), Florida.
The group was redesignated and activated in on 1 November 1991 as the 56th Operations Group and assigned to the 56th Fighter Wing at MacDill AFB, Florida. The 56th OG was the operational component of the wing under the new Objective Wing concept adapted by the Air Force.ounting only air-to-air victory claims registered while with the group (therefore discounting air-to-ground claims), the 56th produced 39 aces, the second-most of any ETO fighter group (the 354th Fighter Group of the Ninth Air Force and the 357th Fighter Group, flying P-51s, each had 42).