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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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• Alexis Gore, a phlebotomist with the Armed Services Blood Program, encourages everyone to donate blood. It's fun!

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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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• Military nurses were saved many lives during WW2. 1LT Marian Charlotte Jones and 1LT Edna Nina Statman both served in the ...

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

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• Ms. Seileen Mullen, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs encourages everyone to donate blood to the ...

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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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• Three nurses recount their experiences during the Vietnam War, stationed both on land and sea. From deployment to the ...

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• Meet part of the Armed Services Blood Program team! Staff Sergeant Davis, a lab technician in the initial processing ...

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• For Lab Week awareness, we follow Staff Sargeant Watson, a lab technician in the phlebotomy section, as she helps to draw ...

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• Meet part of the Armed Services Blood Program team! Specialist Blanca, an ASBP mobilized reservist, works in the ...

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• If you could save three lives in less than an hour, would you? Dr. Lester Martinez-Lopez, Assistant Secretary of Defense ...

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• Blood is being collected to be shipped out all over the world and we have Army, Air Force, Navy and DOD civilians acting ...

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• The Armed Services Blood Program has been the sole provider of blood and blood products for military members, their ...

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• American military medicine has been the cornerstone of medical accomplishments since the founding of the United States. ...

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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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