The overall objective of the research reported here is to help the Army understand a new mission area called homeland security. To achieve this, the research had the following principal, more instrumental, objectives. They were to (1) characterize the range of threats that need to be considered; (2) provide a methodology for homeland security; (3) delineate Army responsibilities; (4) describe a...

Infections Alice Barsoumian, MD; Katrin Mende, PhD; Carlos J. Sanchez Jr., PhD; Miriam L. Beckius, MPH; Joseph Wenke, PhD; Clinton K. Murray, MD; Kevin S. Akers, MD; San Antonio Military Medical Center, JBSA Fort Sam Houston, TX; Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD; Department of Extremity Trauma, United States Army Institute of Surgical Res...

One hundred and sixty five officer cadets completed a 6 month physical training programme; 47 (28%) were smokers and 118 (72%) were not. Improvements in fitness were measured by the Army Personal Fitness Assessment (APFA) which scores for both strength and endurance. Initially both groups had similar APFA scores [mean (SEM)]: smokers 114 (3.1), non smokers 120 (2.3), difference not significant....

The U.S. Army, the forerunner of the military distribution system that utilizes high-technology, has presented visions of "ARMY 21" and "Army After Next," made plans in detail by predicting the operation of the army according to varied military campaigns, making all out efforts to prepare for the future. During the war in Iraq, the U.S. had to open up 30,000 containers to verify their contents....

This paper presents some estimates of the stock of the reserve army of labour, and flows into and out of the reserve army of labour for the postwar U.S. economy. Estimates of stocks are presented for the period 1948–2011 at a monthly frequency; 6 month moving average estimates of flows into and out of the reserve army of labour are presented for the period 1990–2011. Some interesting patterns i...

This is the fourth in a series of papers that review the evolution of the military casualty evacuation during the 20th Century. The previous three papers have looked at the British Army system. This paper looks at the organisation of army medical services from the United States, Israel, Russia and Croatia and compares these with the British Army system reported in the previous papers. All natio...

The lessons of Task Force Hawk and Kosovo have rung loudly in the halls of Congress and the Pentagon. However, the immense difficulty the US Army faced in deploying a capable, warfighting force to northern Albania is only symptomatic of a much larger problem that the Army has grappled with for several decades: how to develop a force light enough to get where it is needed quickly and yet lethal ...

King was born on 4 June 1921 in New York City, New York. When his mother died in childbirth, an aunt raised King in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. He studied at Fordham University [11] in Bronx, New York, where he earned his BS in 1943. Following graduation, King served as a US Army instructor in the Army Medical Technicians School [12] at the Lawson General Hospital [13] in Atlanta, Georgia. Whi...