Background: Military service requires physical fitness, including vision within set standards. Premature attrition inflicts a considerable manpower and fiscal burden upon the military. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort survival analysis of newly enlisted military personnel who entered active duty with a medical waiver for myopia between January 1, 1999, and December 31, 2001. Prematu...

This paper discusses system design issues related to enhancing present internetworking architectures to achieve controlled link sharing and high assurance data interchange guarantees. The military services are implementing both wired and wireless Internet Protocol (IP) based data networks to provide interoperable, heterogeneous network connectivity. A t present, internetwork routing products fo...

Social relationships are important to health out comes. The postdeployment family reintegration literature focuses on the role of the civilian family in facilitating the transition from Active Duty military deployment to civilian society. The focus on the civilian family relationship may miss other important personal connections in veterans' lives. One such connection is the relationship many v...

This paper discusses system design issues related to enhancing present internetworking architectures to achieve controlled link sharing and high assurance data interchange guarantees. The military services are implementing both wired and wireless Internet Protocol (IP) based data networks to provide interoperable, heterogeneous network connectivity. A t present, internetwork routing products fo...

Building on prior theorization of the prison–military complex and critiques Foucault’s claim similarities between prison military, this article uses example ex-military personnel as staff to consider nature relationship. In a UK context in which policy discourse speaks ‘military’ methods an aspiration for Prison Service but where critical scholars use term more pejoratively, it draws unique sur...

This essay briefly examines the British military and their decline as a world military leader between 1919-1939. During this period one could argue that naiveté clouded the lens through which they viewed military power in general in relation to other nations causing miscalculations in particular with regard to strategic policy considerations. We can contrast their lens then with our lens today ...

Khazarprovide Iran with an excellent geopolitical position, while Iran's "antdomination policy" not only deprive it from these privileges but alsobring some serious security challenges for it. U.S. engagement in vasteconomic, military and political undertakings in this region is one of majorthreat for Iran's vital interests. I'm going to argue here that majordifficulty in the way of consisting ...

BACKGROUND The US military is perhaps the only retailer consistently losing money on tobacco. Military stores (commissaries and exchanges) have long sold discount-priced cigarettes, while the Department of Defense (DoD) pays directly for tobacco-related healthcare costs of many current and former customers. Tobacco use also impairs short-term troop readiness. OBJECTIVE To examine the long str...