Military Preventive Medicine: Mobilization
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Before these Marines arrived in Southwest Asia for the Persian Gulf War, an impressive amount of planning and coordination had been done by preventive medicine professionals on their behalf. The health threats facing these Marines had been assessed, plans had been made to counteract those threats, and systems had been put into place to monitor their health status during and after the deployment. These efforts were focused on keeping disease and nonbattle injuries to a minimum—and they worked.
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