BACKGROUND This study assessed the extent to which alcohol consumption in a military group differed from the general population, and how alcohol affected the military group's health and social functioning. METHODS A cross sectional survey of military personnel (n = 5311) collected self-reported data on alcohol use (AUDIT scale) and general health, role limitations because of physical health p...

Since World War II, the military has experienced outbreaks of Q fever among deploying units including recent case reports of Q fever in US military personnel returning from serving in the Middle East during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Occupational exposure and prevalence of Q fever among US Army Veterinary Corps officers have not been examined. A retrospective serosu...

Objectives The aim of the article is to present experience gained by Polish Military Contingent in Iraq field logistic support and preparation military equipment. An additional goal how process technical security Armed Forces outside country has evolved. Methods Theoretical research methods were used author this article, e.g. analysis specialist literature empirical method - diagnostic survey, ...

In theater, it is essential that the services have a common medical system; therefore, a program was initiated to design, develop, and implement an automated system to process medical data on deployed personnel. Once it was demonstrated that medical information could be efficiently processed in theater, a research effort was undertaken to automatically analyze the data in order to detect deviat...

PURPOSE To review potential clinical uses of erythrocyte substitutes in treating military battlefield casualties, with specific emphasis on combat injury rates and wounding patterns, resuscitation doctrine and logistic requirements. METHODS Review of published medical literature and of unclassified documents from the U.S. Armed Forces Blood Program. RESULTS Hemorrhage is the leading cause o...

BACKGROUND Military personnel exposed to potentially traumatic events whilst deployed on operational duties may develop psychological problems. The Royal Marines have made extensive use of Trauma Risk Management (TRiM), a peer-support system that operates through practitioners embedded within operational units. TRiM aims to promote recognition of psychological illness and to facilitate social s...

OBJECTIVE The mental health of military personnel varies as a result of different cultural, political, and administrative factors. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychological morbidity and quality of life of military personnel in Taiwan. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study utilized the World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument, brief version, Taiwan ver...

Military tactical communications systems will be facing great challenges in the near future. Performance of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies is improving at fast pace while at the same time life cycles of military equipment seem to remain long. The goal of this paper is to highlight a few interesting applications where development efforts of cognitive radio (CR), wireless sensor net...

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in distributed intelligent sensor networks [ 1121. This interest has been generated by the requirements of military surveillance systems and other civilian applications. An intelligent sensor network is a collection of units with sensing, computational, and communication ability. Thus one has a network of communicating processors with sensin...

We present an implementation of split-population duration regression in the spduration (Beger et al., 2017) package for R that allows for time-varying covariates. The statistical model accounts for units that are immune to a certain outcome and are not part of the duration process the researcher is primarily interested in. We provide insights for when immune units exist, that can significantly ...