Col Christopher W. Bates, a KC-46 pilot-physician, serves as Commander of the 10th Medical Group and Command Surgeon at the U.S. Air Force Academy, overseeing care for tens of thousands of beneficiaries while also leading the International Association of Military Flight Surgeon Pilots and advising on human-systems integration for tanker operations. Col Christopher Backus, now the USTRANSCOM Command Surgeon, has led large joint and coalition patient-movement readiness efforts—such as Ultimate Caduceus and other aeromedical-evacuation exercises—and serves as a key voice on how physicians underpin global mobility and readiness. At Wright-Patterson AFB, Col Benjamin Park continues clinical and aerospace-medicine support at USAFSAM, contributing to the operational flight-medicine mission and training environment. Lt Col Sandra Salzman, a C-130J pilot-physician, has been a public leader in both operational integration—supporting exercises like Astral Knight in Europe—and in mental-health policy reform, helping drive the change that now allows USAF aircrews to continue flying while seeking behavioral-health care, and advancing aviator peer support through MAPS presentations. Maj Matthew Sandridge has combined aerospace medicine and operational test work with high-visibility performance in the Air Force Marathon “Fly! Fight! Win!” challenge, Lt Col Jonathan Beich has contributed to cutting-edge research on suicidality and clinical natural-language processing that informs military mental-health care, and T-6 instructor pilot Dr Andrew Pellegrin continues the pilot-physician tradition in family medicine after an early career as a Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training FAIP. Pilot-physicians are simultaneously advancing clinical care, operational readiness, human-systems integration, and mental-health innovation for the Air Force in 2026.