FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. -- Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Kory Cornum, Air Mobility command surgeon, visited the base to tour the clinic and present command-level annual awards to Team Fairchild Airmen.

Cornum visited a number of clinics including: physical therapy, public health, flight medicine and family health.

During the visit, Cornum also held an all-call to present the following AMC awards to Fairchild Airmen:

-Physical Medicine Non-Commissioned Officer: Staff Sgt. Sean Devereaux

-Excellence in Nursing Leadership: Lt. Col. James Stryd

-Team Award- Small Dental Clinic of the Year: Fairchild Dental Clinic

During the all-call, Cornum emphasized that small improvements can make major organizational change. He encouraged Airmen by stating, "keep looking for better ways of doing things; we do not need to solve world hunger to decide that what we are doing is better for the organization."

Cornum said he enjoyed visiting the base, "(Visiting Airmen is) fun for me, I get to travel around and see different groups and see (the) ...great innovations that you all are making happen," he said. "I look around, I look at you and you're smiling; I look at the patients in the hall and they are smiling and that's (the way) it should be."

According to Master Sgt. Dawn Traurig, 92nd Medical Operations Squadron superintendent, it is important for senior leaders to view or experience the mission.

"An electronic picture can only take you so far into how we complete the mission," she said. "Senior leaders can only get a true sense of our daily operations by visiting the Airmen that make it all happen."