ARMY AND NAVY SURGEONS.

Explaining Recent Army and Navy Minority Recruiting Trends

B lack representation among high-quality Army recruits has changed over time, with the black share of gross contracts falling 8.3 percentage points between fi scal years (FYs) 2000 and 2004, then increasing 1.2 percentage points between 2004 and 2007. (A recruit is deemed high-quality if he or she has a high school diploma and scores above average on the Armed Forces Qualifi cation Test.) Black...

Temporal trends in disability evaluation and retirement in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps: 2005-2011.

BACKGROUND Surveillance of trends in disability is necessary to determine the burden of disability on the U.S. military, the most common types of disability conditions, and the prevalence of combat exposures in the disability population. Previous studies of disability in the U.S. military have focused on a particular service or condition rather than examining the epidemiology of disability in t...

Army Tm 5-685 Navy Navfac Mo-912 Operation, Maintenance and Repair of Auxiliary Generators

Army Tm 5-685 Navy Navfac Mo-912 Operation, Maintenance and Repair of Auxiliary Generators

The use of chloroform by British Army Surgeons during the Crimean War.

The use of chloroform during the Crimean War was determined by the opinions and experience of medical staff and by the availability of chloroform on the battlefields and in the military hospitals. This paper will begin by reviewing medical opinion on the value of chloroform in military surgery at the start of the war, and after examining the availability and use of chloroform during the war, it...