During World War II, the U.S. Army opened its first Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals, changing the way the wounded were treated in battle for several decades — saving lives and increasing warfighter readiness. Combining mobility, surgery, and post-op care, MASH units were known as the front-line surgical hospitals of the future.
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Medical Unit, Self-contained, Transportable, 45th Surgical Hospital, Texas, 1966
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Medical Unit, Self-contained, Transportable, 45th Surgical Hospital, Texas, 1966
Transport module of Medical Unit, Self ...
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Medical Unit, Self-contained, Transportable, 45th Surgical Hospital, Texas, 1966
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8055th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, Korean War, 1952
Army Chaplain Capt. Thomas L. Doyle (left), and Airman 1st Class ...
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Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, Korean War, 1952
Army Cpl. Gerald Benger analyzes blood at a Mobile Army Surgical ...
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212th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, Balkans, 1990s
U.S. Army surgeons perform surgery in one of the 212th Mobile Army ...
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Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, Iraq, 2003
U.S. Army surgeons operate in a portable operating container of a Mobile Army ...
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The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center’s Patient Advocacy Office helps patients navigate medical care concerns and ...
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Lt. Joshua Bagley, a physical therapist assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Twentynine Palms, ...
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Sailors assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command San Diego (NMRTC SD) participate in a first-of-its-kind ...
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Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Dakota Amato, assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command New England, prepares ...
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Inpatient and Maternal Infant Services nursing staff at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton pose on Oct. 29, 2026, after the ...
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Naval Hospital Pensacola Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class John Christopher Dabu, takes the blood pressure of Hospital Corpsman ...
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Dr. Chuong Do, an inpatient pharmacist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, poses for a portrait in front of ...
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Service members and civilian employees gathered at Heaton Auditorium Oct. 28 for Landstuhl Regional Medical Center’s ...
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Spc. Christian I. Bell, left, and Pfc. Fredy J. Munoz Ordonez stand in the Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital laboratory ...
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Ms. Eriko Tosa, left, of U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Yokosuka Referral Management; Capt. Joshua A. ...
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Spc. Koffi Ballogou, a dental laboratory specialist assigned to Dental Health Activity Rheinland-Pfalz at Landstuhl ...
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Members of the Dutch military medical and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center delegations gather for a group photo during ...
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