Privacy on the battlefield? A bizarre thought at first glance – but is it really that far-fetched? In this study we look at modern conflicts, such as the war on terror, and dig deeper into what privacy means to a soldier engaged in such a campaign. With the ever-increasing amount of technology used for troop command and control, there is less room for an individual soldier to act without being ...

The Global War on Terrorism and its corresponding frequent and long deployments have resulted in an increase in mental health concerns among active duty troops. To mitigate these impacts, the Department of Defense has implemented postdeployment screening initiatives designed to identify symptomatic soldiers and refer them for mental health care. Although the primary purpose of these screenings ...

On November 5, 2009, an individual entered the Fort Hood Soldier Readiness Processing (SRP) site and opened fire with a handgun. The result of the shooting was a total of 13 people killed and 31 wounded. A two-person critical incident peer support (CIPS) team from the United States Army Military Police School (USAMPS) provided critical incident stress management (CISM) in the forms of critical ...

In eusocial insects (e.g., ants, bees, and termites), the roles of different castes are assigned to individuals. These possess unique phenotypes that specialized for specific tasks. The acquisition sterile individuals with is considered a requirement social evolution. termites, soldier caste. primitive taxa (family Archotermopsidae Stolotermitidae), however, secondary reproductives (neotenic re...

the DEVS formalism has been used as modeling and simulation technique for different natural and artificial systems. Cell-DEVS is an extension of DEVS that allows for executing cellular automata models with the advantage of evaluating the cells asynchronously with different timing delays. Both techniques have shown success in simulating space-shaped models. In this paper, we describe how they ca...

Sir,?I trust that it is not too late for a short reply to the ideas set forth under this heading by MajorGeneral Ogilvie in your issue of March. Major-General Ogilvie asks "Has the medical soldier really ceased to be a doctor? " Surely the answer depends on the extent to which his medical work and function are subordinated to, or affected by, the requirements of the service to which he belongs....

We describe the activity recognition component of the Soldier Assist System (SAS), which was built to meet the goals of DARPA’s Advanced Soldier Sensor Information System and Technology (ASSIST) program. As a whole, SAS provides an integrated solution that includes on-body data capture, automatic recognition of soldier activity, and a multimedia interface that combines data search and explorati...