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Navy’s Global Engagement Helps Identify and Mitigate Disease
In support of the Military Health System, the Naval Medical Research Unit-2 is just one global entity that works with local partners to identify and combat global health threats.
Military Health System (MHS) Health Care Glossary serves as the official repository and consolidated reference (as a secondary source) for terms and definitions used within the MHS. Some terms may have multiple and varying definitions based on the context and primary source of authority. Note that certain definitions may be approved only for limited use in a single primary reference document, while others may have broad applicability in multiple contexts and issuances. To determine the most appropriate definition in a particular context, consult all relevant source documents. Any disparities between this Glossary and primary sources are unintentional, and the primary source shall control.
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A period of time in which a Service member serves on active duty.
Source of Definition:
The order of precedence among members of the military services.
Related Glossary Terms:
A position of duty, trust, and authority to which an individual is appointed.
The name (e.g., “Boatswain’s Mate”) prescribed for service members of a military service in an occupational field.
Very serious: dangerous to life-used of an illness or its prospects.
Characterized by sharpness or severity.
Fundamental deductions, consistent with medical facts, that are so reasonable and logical as to create a virtual certainty that they are correct. The Service PEB will state with specificity the basis(es) for the conclusion.
Service members not on active duty orders, to include service members on active duty for 30 days or less or on inactive-duty training.
A war, expedition, occupation of an area or territory, battle, skirmish, raid, invasion, rebellion, insurrection, guerilla action, riot, or any other action in which service members are engaged with a hostile or belligerent nation, faction, ...
The Service member’s decision to accept or appeal the MEB or PEB findings.
The PEB’s record of proceedings, which includes the fitness decision, code and percentage rating for each unfitting and compensable condition, stability and permanency of the disability, and administrative determinations.
Full-time duty in the active military service of the United States, including active duty or full-time training duty in the Reserve Component. Also called AD. See also active duty for training; inactive duty training. (JP 4-05)
Calendar day.
The permanent worsening of a pre-Service medical condition over and above the natural progression of the condition.
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