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• The Defense Health Agency is now 11 years old. With over 700 medical, dental and veterinary hospitals & clinics, and a ...

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• Purple Heart Day is celebrated annually on August 7th to honor and remember U.S. military members who were wounded or ...

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• World War II medic Waverly B. Woodson, Jr. was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest U ...

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• A brief explainer on military medical dogs or mercy dogs who served in WW1 and WW2.

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• Lt Col Frances Liberty, with the US Army Nurses Corps, recounts the heartwarming story of a soldier she cared for during ...

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• Military members and their families depend on blood donors every day, and your donation can save a life. The need for ...

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• On the battlefield and off. Yesterday and today. Women in military health have been more than doctors or nurses. They're ...

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• General Raymond G Davis and Billy Gene Devasher recount their experiences at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir during the ...

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• Lynn "Doc" Munger was a 23-year-old pharmacist's mate during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. When Munger ...

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• This Veterans Day 2023, the Military Health System honors military medical personnel who went above and beyond the call ...

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