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Military Health System Recognized for Stories of Remembrance, Readiness, at 2024 Defense Media Merit Awards
The Military Health System received high accolades at the 2024 Defense Media Merit Awards, winning 23 awards for outstanding communications products featuring remembrance and readiness.
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The Military Health System is an interconnected network of service members whose mission is to support the lives and families of those who support our country. Everyday in the MHS advancements are made in the lab, in the field, and here at home. These are just a few articles highlighting those accomplishments that don't always make it to the front page of local papers.
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Military personnel can suffer from a form of depression known as seasonal affective disorder or SAD, which results from a lack of daylight during the cold, dark months of autumn and winter.
Paratroopers with U.S. Army Alaska’s 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division ski across the drop zone during Exercise Spartan Pegasus in Deadhorse, Alaska.
Army Spc. Lauren O'Neal, 153rd Blood Support Detachment medical laboratory technician, prepares Spc. Samantha Criscio, Guard Force, to give platelets at Craig Joint Theater Hospital on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Dec. 31, 2015.
Family running outside in cold weather
Stimulants and other ingredients in weight-loss supplements can potentially be dangerous to human health. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration by Staff Sgt. Alexandre Montes)
Marine Cpl. Jordan Canchola, an artillery gunner with Golf Battery, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, takes a knee to shield himself from the rotor wash of a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter. The battery was training to distribute food and water as part of a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operation. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Carl King)
Army Maj. Lane Hansen (in lab coat), deputy director for Dog Center Europe, discusses treatment option for Military Working Dog Rocky with (Left to Right): Spec. India Mainville, veterinary technician Army Sgt. John Paul Perry, a Military Working Dog handler from the 525th MWD Detachment; Sgt. 1st Class Elizabeth Marroquin, Noncommissioned officer in charge of Dog Center Europe; Maj. Suzanne Todd, deputy commanding officer for Public Health Command District - Northern Europe; 1st Sgt. Gina Egan, PHCD-NE first sergeant; and Spec. Dimonde Davis, a veterinary technician. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Scott Chamberlin)
A medical team straps a role-playing patient onto a stretcher during a class at the West African Preparedness Initiative in Accra, Ghana. The training was conducted by the Defense Institute for Medical Operations. (Courtesy photo)
Dr. Rachel Markwald (right), a research scientist at NHRC, provides an overview of the research being conducting to detect the different stages of sleep and sleep disorders to visitors from the Chinese Navy.
Corpsmen and Marines rehearsed life-saving skills during Exercise Steel Knight’s mass casualty drill, Dec. 12, 2015. Steel Knight provides tough, realistic training for the Marines and sailors of 1st Marine Division.
Navy Seaman Lavone Rhymtate, hospitalman, Naval Medical Center San Diego, administers the seasonal influenza vaccine to Labor and Delivery Registered Nurse, Navy Lt. j.g. Kelly McKenna.
Mark Goodge, chief technology officer for the Military Health System, addresses the audience during the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Bethesda chapter's annual Health IT Day, in Bethesda, Maryland, Dec. 15, 2015.
The average football game consists of about 11 minutes of actual play – so you’re watching huddles, replays, and commercials in-between. Use that downtime to your advantage, call an audible, and get moving during time-outs.
Soldiers try and get comfortable and get some sleep on their way home from deployment.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Dr. Jonathan Woodson, delivers a keynote address marking the launch of the new Center for Global Health Engagement at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland on Dec. 17, 2015.
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