The Army Almanac: A Book of Facts Concerning the United States Army.

The Medical Department of the United States Army.

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The United States Army Ocular Teleconsultation program 2004 through 2009.

PURPOSE To describe the United States Army Ocular Teleconsultation program and all consultations received from its inception in July 2004 through December 2009. DESIGN Retrospective, noncomparative, consecutive case series. METHODS All 301 consecutive ocular teleconsultations received were reviewed. The main outcome measures were differential diagnosis, evacuation recommendations, and origi...

Suicide and the United States Army: Perspectives from the Former Psychiatry Consultant to the Army Surgeon General

The suicide rate of active-duty soldiers doubled between 2003 and 2010. In response, the Department of Defense and the United States Army improved their data collection methods to better understand the causes of military suicides. As retired colonel Dr. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie writes, unit history and the accumulation of stressors-from relationship problems to chronic pain-are significant suici...

Biomonitoring of United States Army Soldiers Serving in Kuwait

Biomarkers of polycychic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure and genetic biomarkers of potential cancer susceptibility were determined in a group of United States Army soldiers who were deployed to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in 1991 in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War. Because hundreds of oil well fires were still burning, there was concern that ground troops stationed in Kuwait might be expo...

United States Army supervision of civil prisons in Bavaria.