Maj. Gen. Melissa Rank, Assistant U.S. Air Force Surgeon General, Medical Force Develoment, discusses professional issues with Maj. Edilbert Castro and Maj. Jennifer Sur-Watanabe, Air Force Reserve 624th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, at the second annual Asia Pacific Military Conference. Majors Castro and Sur-Watanabe were two of more than 40 Air Force, Army and Navy nurses and medical professionals who attended the conference with attendees from seven countries Sept. 1-5 at the Korea Armed Forces Nursing Academy in Daejeon, Republic of Korea. The 624th ASTS is part of the 624th Regional Support Group, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii.