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Special Operations Medicine Today
By J.R. Wilson in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with 2 comments
Every American warfighter now goes into combat with a personal first aid kit and Combat Lifesaver training to provide both personal and buddy medical care immediately. Only moments away is a Combat Medic, ...more »
Warfighter Hearing Impairment: Prevention and Treatment
By J.R. Wilson in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with no comments
The ongoing conflict in Southwest Asia has brought new understanding – and treatments – to a number of age-old military medical issues. One that has received less public attention than most, but has ...more »
Tasers on Steroids and More: 21st Century Non-Lethal Electrical Shock Weapons
By Dwight Jon Zimmerman in Defense Wide under Defense Technology, Featured with no comments
The Department of Defense’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD) at Quantico, Va., is the go-to place for weapons designed to do everything but kill an adversary. One JNLWD program is the Human Electromuscular ...more »
Book Review: For Military Merit: Recipients of the Purple Heart
By Robert F. Dorr in Defense Wide under Commentary, Defense Issues, Featured, History with no comments
Special operations troops and military service members caught up in terrorist attacks are among more than one million Americans who’ve received the Purple Heart.
While the original criteria specified that the award be given ...more »
FNH USA Responds to End of SOCOM SCAR Mk 16 Procurement
By Chuck Oldham (Editor) in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, News with 2 comments
FNH USA posted the following press release following the news over the weekend that SOCOM will not be allocating further funds to the 5.56 mm SCAR Mk 16 and will instead reallocate the ...more »
Helping Haiti: Logistics Challenges and Successes
By J.R. Wilson in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with no comments
When a devastating earthquake struck the Caribbean island nation of Haiti in January 2010, destroying its airport and harbor facilities, President Barack Obama pledged an immediate and all-out rescue and humanitarian relief effort.
With ...more »
Veterans Behavioral Health: Improving Post-combat Care
By J.R. Wilson in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Featured, Print Edition with 2 comments
The ongoing conflict in Southwest Asia has garnered a number of distinctive markers. Its two signature medical outcomes are amputations (the result of an historically high battlefield survival rate) and traumatic brain injury ...more »
Shout Them Down: 21st Century Acoustic Weapons
By Dwight Jon Zimmerman in Defense Wide under Defense Technology, Featured with no comments
“So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, ...more »
“Set Lasers on Stun”
By Dwight Jon Zimmerman in Defense Wide under Defense Technology, Featured with no comments
In the 23rd century, Capt. James T. Kirk of the starship Enterprise famously (and routinely) ordered his crew to “set phasers on stun” against unarmed or lightly-armed attackers. In the early 21st century, ...more »
Interview: Gen. Anthony “Tony” Zinni, USMC-Ret., Chairman of the Board of Directors, BAE Systems, Inc. Part 4 of 4
By John D. Gresham and Susan Kerr in Defense Wide under Featured, Interviews, Print Edition with 1 comment
Anthony C. “Tony” Zinni is the chairman of the board of directors of BAE Systems, Inc., the company’s wholly owned U.S. subsidiary that employs approximately 55,000 employees in the United States, United Kingdom, ...more »
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