The objective of this monograph is to determine whether the Army's casualty evacuation system is adequate to support soldiers in future combat. Research indicates the high Dow rates results primarily from the units' difficulties in efficiently...
The purpose of this manual is to teach the soldier what he can do for himself or a fellow soldier if injury or sickness occurs when no medical officer or Medical Department soldier is nearby. Information is also given concerning the use of certain...
Motivation reduces the amount of physical wounds Soldiers receive in combat and allows them to heal quicker. Motivation and human needs drive Soldiers to work as a team toward a common goal. Proof exists showing motivation reduces the amount of...
The United States Army medical system is currently facing some of its biggest medical concerns it has ever faced in over forty years. The ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are producing a high rate of injuries to our Soldiers. We will examine...
Conference subjects consist of communications, armored troop carriers, liaison planes, food preparation and distribution, mine detecting and disposal, supply replacement, supply means, clothing, body armor, training aids, and War Department...
Surgeons during the Civil War have been classified by soldiers from that time period as incompetent butchers. However, evidence of head injury cases from the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, The Wilderness, and Petersburg, evidence suggests that...
This is the final statistical record of battle casualties and nonbattle deaths incurred during World War II by United States Army military personnel, including members of the Army Air Forces. The period covered is 7 December 1941 through 31...
The Russo-Japanese war presents prominent features, apparently the result of the normal evolution of modern warfare, which affects the medical department as well as other branches of the service. This book presents a series of reports by United...
An orthopedic surgeon in command of the 274th Forward Surgical Team in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM from February to August 2003, Lieutenant Colonel (Dr.) Richard Pope was tasked with providing surgical support to enemy prisoners of war,...
This report covers the medical effects of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima 6 August 1945, and on Nagasaki 9 August 1945. It also analyzes the physical damage as related to death and injury of personnel, the organization of relief activities by...
Soldiers must provide medical care to a civilian who receive wounds on the battlefield even if it endangers the Soldier himself. This philosophy of Soldiers protecting civilians goes all the way back to the Civil War days, when Dr. Mary Walker not...
The purpose of this circular is to establish a uniform method of reporting the following categories of persons subject to military law, including all persons serving with or accompanying the United States Army in the field, in accordance with...
The US Army Medical Department (AMEDD) is in the process of developing new concepts to support the Army’s transformation. Its current mission is to conserve the fighting strength of US Army forces, providing force health protection to forces in a...
This report is written in response to numerous requests for war casualty statistics and lists of war dead. It provides tables, compiled by sources at the Department of Defense (DOD), indicating the number of casualties among American military...
This soldier's handbook from 1913 addresses the following topics: unauthorized absence; extracts from Army regulations of 1910; extracts from Articles of War; guard duty; rations; clothing; arms and equipment; international Morse or General Service...