For some children in South Texas, the impact of Operation Healthy Nueces County 2026 became clear the moment they put on their first pair of glasses.
“There were kids who were 8 or 10 years old coming in to get glasses for the first time,” said Maj. Brian Obermeier, a 155th Medical Group bioenvironmental engineer and officer-in-charge of a Nebraska Air National Guard contingent that traveled to South Texas to participate in the unique medical operation. “We fabricated more than 1,000 pairs of glasses on site and were able to give them to people the next day.”
The glasses represented one part of a two-week joint medical mission that brought more than 200 military service members to Nueces County, July 12-26, 2026.
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