Military medicine has a long and celebrated history. We apply lessons from our past to improve the care of military personnel and their families today and in the future. New surgical techniques, powerful painkillers, antibiotic drugs, and triage and evacuation procedures have revolutionized military medicine.
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10/11/2017
Navy Cmdr. Eric Gryn, department head of the multi-service ward at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton explains the purpose and importance of a mass casualty exercise. Mass casualty exercises are mandatory drills that ensure the readiness of emergency services.
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10/5/2017
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Rose Jane Schoenwandt, 349th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, Travis Air Force Base, California, and Staff Sgt. Caleb Boles, 445th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, discuss the importance of moulage during Patriot Warrior.
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8/15/2017
The Naval Medicine Operational Training Center trains Sailors to work as a cohesive medical team.
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8/8/2017
U.S. Navy Corpsmen work alongside Mongolian Armed Forces Medics to lead classes in basic life-saving skill during Exercise Khaan Quest 2017. Khaan Quest 2017 is a Mongolian-hosted, combined, joint training exercise designed to strengthen the capabilities of the U.S., Mongolia and other partner nations in international peacekeeping operations.
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6/16/2017
U.S. Navy Corspmen celebrate their one hundred and nineteenth birthday June, 17 2017. The Navy Hospital corps is the most decorated corps in the United States military and has stood next to Marines on and off the battlefield. (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Lance Cpl. Samuel Taylor)
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3/23/2017
Hemorrhage is responsible for 91.5 percent of potentially survivable battlefield deaths. From 2001 to 2011, an estimated 24 percent of combat deaths occurred before patients reached a treatment facility; the major cause of death was blood loss. Battlefield trauma innovations like the occlusion balloon catheter and freeze-dried plasma will enhance the Joint Forces' current capabilities.
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3/22/2017
U.S. Air Force Maj. Sandra Nestor, tactical critical care evacuation team nurse, is assigned to the 3rd Platoon, C Company, 2-149 General Support Aviation Battalion Medevac. Medevac teams specialize in moving and treating U.S. and coalition forces who are injured and risk dying without immediate emergency care.
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3/7/2017
The Ophthalmology Medical Readiness Training Exercise (MEDRETE) team is comprised of 26 U.S. military personnel and several host nation physicians who have partnered together to train medical teams in preparation for deployment. During the MEDRETE, the teams are able to improve the eyesight of more than 250 Panamanian patients during the two-week training exercise. The goal is to provide medical care that benefits the people of Panama, while building relationships with the accompanying Panamanian medical professionals.
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11/18/2016
After seeing how time in the military has made Air Force Lt. Col. John Bini an elite surgeon, medical student Julie Whitis is thinking about an officer commission and joining the Force of the Future.
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9/6/2016
On September 11, 2001, an airplane slammed into the side of the Pentagon as part of the terrorist attacks that would become known simply as 9/11. We honor those who died during the attacks, and we also recognize the heroes who responded to the attack on the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, the World Trade Center in New York City, and the crash site of flight 93 located near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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