Suicide is a significant public health concern within the United States military. Suicide may occur before, during, and after military deployment or service for a multitude of reasons that may or may not be directly related to deployment. Therefore, it is crucial that mental health counselors are trained to identify risk at an early stage so they can offer evidence-based practices to manage and...

Although a subset of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans show aggression toward others after they return home from military service, little is known about protective mechanisms that could be bolstered to prevent violence. A national longitudinal survey was conducted between 2009 and 2011 using a random sample of veterans who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom. One thousan...

The processes of exploitation military objects are usually characterised by the specificity operation and complexity both process itself object. This may relate to type tasks that these carry out environment in which take place. Complexity is reflected very structure an object (for example, a ship, aircraft or helicopter) and, consequently, its operation/maintenance system. above mentioned feat...

The use of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) in civilian and military wounds is found effective in promoting granulation tissue, decreasing exudate and improving patient comfort. The Use of gauze-based NPWT is increasing in civilian trauma cases with availability of proprietary systems using gauze as filler material rather than the traditionally used reticulated open-cell foam. Military tr...

Who now reads Norman Dixon’s The Psychology of Military Incompetence, published 40 years ago, and does it matter ? Historical examples of military incompetence – sometimes referred to as ‘military blunders’ or in the case of Elliot Cohen and John Gooch, 1 as “military misfortunes” or failures – are legion : the failure of the Royal Navy to defeat the German High Seas fleet at Jutland in 1916 – ...

This is a new, revised and enlarged edition of Major Caldwell's well-known book on Military Hygiene. It gives a good account of those principles of sanitation which most nearly affect the soldier in his eveiy-day life, whether at home, abroad or in the field. Though primarily written for medical officers of his own Corps it is also hoped that it will be useful to officers of other branches of t...

In this paper, we focus on a continuously deteriorating critical equipment which its failure cannot be measured by cost criterion. For these types of systems like military systems, nuclear systems, etc it is extremely important to avoid failure during the actual operation of the system. In this paper we propose an approach which constrains failure probability to a pre-specified value. This valu...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been called the signature wound of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). The aim of the present study was to describe and assess the incidence of inpatient hospitalizations of U.S. military personnel who were medically evacuated from OIF and OEF with combat-related TBI. Inpatient medical records from 2003 to 2008 were used to determ...

Gallium nitride (GaN) RF power transistor and MMIC technologies have become sufficiently mature and reliable in the last few years that there are now large numbers of fielded devices in both military and commercial applications. Wide bandgap technology is now finding extended use in switching, control and low noise applications. Cree’s GaN on silicon carbide (SiC) MMIC processes provide high dr...