Background: There is a growing need to reduce significantly the noise generated by high-performance, supersonic military aircraft. The noise generated during takeoff and landing on aircraft carriers has direct impact on shipboard health and safety issues. Also, noise complaints are increasing as communities move closer to military bases or when there are changes due to base closures and realign...

ID: 164 John V. Farr United States Military Academy Email: [email protected] Jacqueline A. Harris United States Military Academy Email: [email protected] Gregory J. O’Conner Program Executive Office Ammunition, Picatinny Arsenal Email: [email protected] Address: Center for Nation Reconstruction and Capacity Development, Department of Systems Engineering, United States Mil...

One of the most significant modern day efforts to prevent and control an arthropod-borne disease during a military deployment occurred when a team of U.S. military entomologists led efforts to characterize, prevent, and control leishmaniasis at Tallil Air Base (TAB), Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Soon after arriving at TAB on 22 March 2003, military entomologists determined that 1) high...

This article describes the development and use of the California Healthy Kids SurveyMilitary Module to provide data about military-connected (MC) students and potential differential educational experiences of military versus nonmilitary youths and their families. Three military modules were developed and pilot tested and are now available for use statewide. These modules elicited information fr...

In this article a snapshot of casualty presentations to the UK Role 3 hospital in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, will be briefly described. The observations allow reflection on the advances and strength of clinical provision at the time of the incident, written from a medical command perspective.

Introduction At th e end of a journey to the Beer Sheva, whilc studying the medical aspects of Alle nhy's Palestine Campaigns, I visitcd the British Military Cemetery ror those who were kllled in the area during these campaigns. What began as an aimless visit, soon became a search for RAMC servicemen who might he buried there. An hour later, J stood in front or a tombstone of Captain John FoxRu...

objectives to examine the military service predictors resulting in worsening drug abuse status. patients and methods a cross-sectional study with 3140 young soldiers was conducted in summer and autumn of 2010 and; the participants completed three questionnaires, namely the texas christian university drug screen (tcuds) ii, the addiction severity index and a questionnaire designed by the researc...

Captain and Quartermaster, R.A.M.C.(T.) ; Steward, Southmead Hospital. Thomas Jones began his career with the Guardians of the Parish of Lambeth in 1896, and was subsequently Master of Alresford Workhouse, Hants., from 1903 to 1905. Then, coming to Bristol, he was successively Storekeeper and Master's Clerk at Eastville Institution until he was promoted to be Steward at Southmead Infirmary in S...