Defense Wide Stories
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 »
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 »
A Million Thanks and More
By Craig Collins in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Featured with no comments
A couple of years ago, when Shauna Fleming became the spokesperson for National Military Appreciation Month (NMAM), it was an honor she hadn’t foreseen in 2004, when she – a high school freshman ...more »
The VFW’s Troop Support Programs: Appreciating, Supporting, and Assisting Military Personnel – Every Day
By Craig Collins in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Featured with no comments
Since Congress made it so in 1999, May is National Military Appreciation Month, meant to honor the nation’s past and present service members and to draw awareness and appreciation to the 90 million ...more »
NATO at the Crossroads
By J.R. Wilson in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with no comments
For nearly half a century, the 16-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) stood ready to confront a massive air and land attack from its Eastern European counterpart, the Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact. It was ...more »
TechWatch: Commercial Expos
By J.R. Wilson in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured with no comments
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is the world’s largest exposition of cutting edge civilian technology – both recently entered into the marketplace and planned to begin shipping within the ...more »
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