OBJECTIVE To provide a comprehensive assessment of smoking prevalence and risks for smoking in an entire population of United States Air Force (USAF) military basic trainees (n = 32,144). DESIGN Population-based survey with every individual entering the USAF enlisted force from August 1995 to August 1996. SETTING USAF Basic Military Training (BMT) facility at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas....

Objectives Transmission of polio poses a threat to military forces when deploying to regions where such viruses are endemic. US-born soldiers generally enter service with immunity resulting from childhood immunization against polio; moreover, new recruits are routinely vaccinated with inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), supplemented based upon deployment circumstances. Given residual protecti...

Abstract FA-50 aircraft is a combat version of the KAI T-50 Golden Eagle jet trainer. The development began in October 1997.The phase finished January 2006, during which 6 prototypes were built. It worth noting that 2012, was awarded military certificate issued by Korean MAAC (Military Aircraft Airworthiness Committee) as first fighter-class aircraft. On 16 September 2022, approval ceremony for...

This article builds on the political geography of islands and emerging research relationship between island, border sovereignty. Today, are recognised as crucial sites for understanding contemporary controls. Military bases that were built during earlier colonial periods increasingly used transnational migrant detention practices. aims to offer another important insight politics borders from an...

This paper provides a current review of existing evidence-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with a description of psychopharmacologic options, prolonged exposure therapy, cognitive processing therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, especially as they pertain to military populations. It further offers a brief summary of promising treatments with a dev...

This paper describes Disciple, an Artificial Intelligence based decision aid which subject-matter experts can train and use when making decisions under stressful, complex, and constrained conditions. The tool was developed and used under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s High Performance Knowledge Base and Rapid Knowledge Formation programs. Some domains in which the tool would be...

Military bases perform important national security missions. In order to these missions, specific electrical energy loads must have continuous, uninterrupted power even during terrorist attacks, adversary action, natural disasters, and other threats of interest the military. While many global military established microgrids that can maintain base operations critical grid disconnect events where...

The Applied Research Laboratory has been helping U.S. law enforcement and military agencies develop an information base on which to make decisions about minimal force options for conflict resolution since 1997. The premise of minimal force option studies, often referred to as non-lethal or less-than lethal “weapons,” is whether there are appropriate alternatives to lethal force in order to mini...