
Distinguished Cardio Pulmonary Technician from the United States Air Force, Senior Airmen Norman Vanderhorst showcases expertise in cardiovascular and pulmonary care, excelling in ventilator operations and pulmonary medication administration. A proven leader, he adeptly supervises junior enlisted Airmen, demonstrating exceptional team leadership and technical proficiency in critical care environments.
He has a professional goal of putting together a great body of work within an MSC career , retiring after 20 plus years . He wants to lead his subordinates and support the next generation of MSC’s that are to come, elevating not only the MSC career field, but the Air Force in its entirety. After retirement , he wants to become a medical service corps member in the GS civilian realm, taking his knowledge and skills from his Air Force career and applying it to a GS employee career. His professional goals go hand in hand with his personal goals by providing him the means to support a family and lead them in the way he was taught by his parents and their direction from God . He also has a goal of opening a training facility after retirement to lead youth and adults in health and fitness .
Senior Airmen Norman Vanderhorst operates in the USAF as a cardiopulmonary technician ( Respiratory Therapist). He is a specialist and expert in the care of a patients cardiovascular and pulmonary systems . Some of the tasks of a cardiopulmonary technician include , administering airway medicinal treatments , operating ventilators , and performing invasive/noninvasive procedures , for diagnostic and therapeutic motives, in relation to the heart and lungs and other bodily functions .
Pulmonary Medication administration
Pulmonary /Cardiac therapy specialist
Ventilator operations
CCATT (critical care air transport team) member
Deans List 2021 , Incarnate Word University
2022 Critical Air Transport Validated Respiratory Therapist
2024 Airmen Leadership School Distinguished Graduate
Certified Respiratory Therapist (CRT)
Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT)