Background: Military medicine is one of the important orders of military systems that takes responsibility for providing health services to the military forces. Military physicians need knowledge and skills required for their role. In today's world, different countries have designed and developed certain activities and curricula for military medical education at general and pro...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this research is to describe the leading circumstances of military vehicle crashes to guide prioritization and implementation of crash avoidance and/or warning technologies. METHODS A descriptive study using narrative text analysis on 3,944 military vehicle crash narratives. Crash data on drivers, from 2001 to 2006, were assembled from the U.S. Army Combat Readines...

Although military men have heavier drinking patterns, military women experience equal or higher rates of dependence symptoms and similar rates of alcohol-related problems as men at lower levels of consumption. Thus, gender may be important for understanding substance use treatment (SUT) utilization before deployment. Military health system data were analyzed to examine gender differences in bot...

The U.S. Army, the forerunner of the military distribution system that utilizes high-technology, has presented visions of "ARMY 21" and "Army After Next," made plans in detail by predicting the operation of the army according to varied military campaigns, making all out efforts to prepare for the future. During the war in Iraq, the U.S. had to open up 30,000 containers to verify their contents....

various and complex human activities in geographical contexts need proper ground if at most efficiency is to be achieved. land preparation regulates the relationship between human, space, and human activities. land preparation has various dimensions related to value system, political, scientific, artistic, and defense-security aspects. one of the most important dimensions of land preparation is...

introduction a mission of the military nurse is to deploy medical support for military forces on short notice. military nurses must possess a working knowledge of trauma management. peacetime military hospitals do not routinely care for severely injured patients. the military is challenged to provide multiple clinical opportunities for personnel to enable them to maintain readiness to respond t...

Although knowledge of torture and physical and psychological abuse was widespread at both the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and known to medical personnel, there was no official report before the January 2004 Army investigation of military health personnel reporting abuse, degradation or signs of torture. Military medical personnel are placed in a position of ...

To complement our reviews of health plan organization in the civilian managed-care sector and readiness issues in the military sector, we reviewed past reports on the MHS and interviewed senior DoD officials and others who are knowledgeable about military health issues. The past studies revealed a debate on military health system organization that has continued intermittently for five decades. ...

The Message Handler extracts critical intelligence information from the free-text of military messages to merge with the data'parsed from fixed-fields. In the third of four project phases, the current focus is on developing stand-alone capabilities demonstrating the viability of natural language processing in Advance Concept Technology Demonstrations (ACTDs), and to operational users at militar...