U.S. Navy Experience with SSS (Synchro-Self-Shifting) Clutches

US Navy experience with research on, and development of, hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers.

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Ventilation Systems, US NAVY SHIPS

Shipboard ventilation systems supply and remove air to/from spaces throughout the ship. In doing so, these systems control quality of breathing air and protect personnel and sensitive equipment from potentially hazardous airborne contaminants, fires, explosions, and excessive heat. The ability of ventilation systems to protect personnel from these hazards is particularly important aboard Navy s...

Humanitarian otolaryngology: a navy hospital ship experience.

The USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) is 1 of 2 United States Navy hospital ships. In 2011, she deployed to 9 countries in Central and South America including Jamaica, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Haiti. Eight surgical specialties including otolaryngology were involved, for a combined total of about 150 cases per country. An advance team coordinated patients ...

Does the US Navy attract young women who smoke?

OBJECTIVE To assess whether the United States Navy is disproportionately attracting and recruiting female smokers from the civilian sector. METHODS Standardised comparisons of cigarette use among Navy women recruits and civilian women were conducted with data from a 1996-97 Department of Defense study and the 1994 National Health Interview Survey. RESULTS Young Navy women recruits (18-22 ye...

Chapter 8 expeditionary operational stress Control in the us navy