Objective: This study documents the recent trends and current state of inpatient trauma care in U.S. Army hospitals. Methods: Inpatient trauma cases from Army hospitals worldwide from October 1988 through April 2001 were analyzed. Facilities included 3 Certified Trauma Centers (CTCs), 7 nonCTC Army Medical Centers, and 42 Army Community Hospitals. Logistic regression identified mortality risk f...

Army STARRS is the largest and most comprehensive research project of mental health ever conducted in the U.S. Army. The project was designed to examine a broad range of risk and resilience (protective) factors across a complex set of outcomes. Army STARRS scientists created a series of extensive databases with the potential to achieve groundbreaking results. These databases will allow scientis...

Suicide, as one of the greatest problems of maladjustment to the military environment, has been a subject of investigation in the Army of Serbia and Montenegro (former Yugoslav Army) for more than six decades. The Suicide Prevention Program was implemented in December 2003. The aim of the study was to follow-up the application of the Suicide Prevention Program in the Army of Serbia and Monteneg...

From 2004 to 2008, the suicide rate among US Army Soldiers increased 80%, reaching a record high in 2008 and surpassing the civilian rate for the first time in recorded history. In recent years, the rate of Army suicides rose again; the year 2012 reflects the highest rate of military suicides on record. There is a need to assess current behavioral health practices to identify both effective and...

timur began his domination by the help he received from parts of the chaghataid troops. then and concurrent to extending his realm and power, he recruited defeated populations as new part of his army. simultaneously he established household – provincial powers in his occupations which his sons and grandsons ruled over them. this political – administrative tradition was followed by his successor...

conclusions by intensive monitoring of the situation of substance abuse among soldiers, commanders can reduce modifiable predictors of suicidal attempt. results the majority of soldiers with mean age of 21.8 (sd = 2.4) years were single (82.1%), employed (54.5%) and had a low level of education or were illiterate (71.1%). in total, 296 (7.5%) soldiers had suicidal attempts in their military ser...

Since the events of 9/11, the official line of most Western governments has been that the fight against Islamist terrorism is not a fight against Islam itself. Strategically, there are a number of reasons for this — successful intelligence cooperation with Muslim majority governments, civilians in Muslim countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan and in the West itself is seen as crucial for Suppor...

NOT all-and perhaps very few-of those who have joined the Army Emergency Reserve or the Territorial Army are aware of the long train of events which has gone to make these forces what they are today. Each has a long and honourable history and before coming to a description of their medical services it is desirable to know something of their evolution. In brief, then, the Army Emergency Reserve ...

From the Division of Psychiatry and Neu­ roscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Silver Spring, MD (C.W.H., D.M., J.L.T., A.L.C., C.A.C.); and the Deployment Health Clinical Center and Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Washington, DC (C.C.E.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Hoge at the Division of Psychiatry and Neuro­...

The solitaire army is a one-person peg jumping game where a player attempts to advance an “army” of pegs as far as possible into empty territory. The game was introduced by John Conway and is also known as “Conway’s Soldiers.” We consider various generalizations of this game in different 2D geometries, unify them under a common mathematical framework, and find the minimum size army capable of a...