BACKGROUND As part of its response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak in west Africa, the United Kingdom (UK) government established an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone, staffed by military personnel. Little is known about the ethical challenges experienced by military medical staff on humanitarian deployment. We designed a qualitative study to explore this further with those who worked in the trea...

Recent closure or loss of overseas bases and assets now requires a greater dependence on deploying forces from the continental United States (CONUS), thus requiring efficient deployment planning. At the same time, widely scattered and increasingly numerous low-scale operations result in a greater pace of military deployments than ever before. Deploying from home station directly into theaters t...

Abstract In order to improve the battlefield survivability of military equipment and personnel, more research institutions have conducted on bulletproof performance equipment. This paper analyzes advantages disadvantages several main materials their applicable environments, briefly damage typical antiradiation missile warhead fragments. On this basis, a new type hanging bullet proof structure i...

According to the requirements of military education policy in new era, equipment instructors must constantly strengthen construction teaching ability order provide professional technical personnel for information war future. In view how comprehensively improve instructors, this paper first analyses main problems existing current our Institute, and then puts forward some specific measures which ...

An emerging and innovative technology that is a possible alternative to manual sampling is the use of continuous recording water-quality monitoring equipment (CRWQME) for collecting multiple ion-specific tracer data. Advantages of using CR-WQME include the ability to record continuously water-quality events (including unplanned events) during a tracer test at small time intervals of 15 minutes ...

An overview is presented of the recently proposed Vehicle and Heavy Equipment Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) Technology Development project under the Technology Reinvestment Project (TRP) of ARPA. The goals of the tasks proposed in the manufacturing process simulation area are discussed in detail, with particular emphasis on casting. An important aspect envisioned is the inte...