BattlelandAuthor Q&A
Military medicine has received a lot of well-deserved attention in the wars launched since 9/11. More wounded troops than ever are surviving the battlefield, and there are many advances both there and back home that have made …
“From an architecture standpoint, certainly we could support that policy decision. But I guess I'll defer to the policymakers on whether that is a position that the United States, this Administration, the national leadership would choose to take. Within the system itself, on the platform, there's absolutely no reason we couldn't support that type of a policy decision.”
A CH-47 Chinook flies an M777 howitzer from FOB Hadrian to Kandahar airfield June 18.
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The light went on in my head during a debate over PTSD nomenclature last year.
Then-president of the American Psychiatric Association, John Oldham, was chairing a session entitled Combat-Related PTSD: Injury or Disorder?
A …
