Staff Sergeant is a noncommissioned officer rank in the United States Air Force. The archival image records a laboratory technician assigned to the 18th Medical Group examining a slide on May 14, 2018, at Kadena Air Base, Japan, conducting bacterial culture analysis for medical diagnostics.

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