Article: SURGEON SEARCHES FOR MUCH SUCCESS; PARENTS CALL ANTONIO EPPOLITO, WHO CHOSE RIGOROUS FLIGHT TRAINING, AN OVERACHIEVER.(SERIES: Voices from the front)(Local)

Byline: Jennifer Jacobs Staff writer

Flight surgeon Antonio J. Eppolito is trained to do search-and-rescue missions. He can stabilize wounded pilots in downed aircraft, then treat critical injuries while flying back to a field hospital.

His parents, Nancy and Antonio M. Eppolito, of DeWitt, don't know if he's been called into the battlefield to do this; they've received only one short e-mail since the war began.

They do know that their son, 34, a native of Liverpool, is near the Kuwait-Iraq border staffing a field hospital - a modern, Air Force version of the old M*A*S*H units.

Doctors there reportedly have treated troops with sore ...

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