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• The Defense Health Agency is now 11 years old. With over 700 medical, dental and veterinary hospitals & clinics, and a ...

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• Purple Heart Day is celebrated annually on August 7th to honor and remember U.S. military members who were wounded or ...

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• World War II medic Waverly B. Woodson, Jr. was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest U ...

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• Military nurses were saved many lives during WW2. 1LT Marian Charlotte Jones and 1LT Edna Nina Statman both served in the ...

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• A brief explainer on military medical dogs or mercy dogs who served in WW1 and WW2.

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• Lt Col Frances Liberty, with the US Army Nurses Corps, recounts the heartwarming story of a soldier she cared for during ...

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• Three nurses recount their experiences during the Vietnam War, stationed both on land and sea. From deployment to the ...

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• Military members and their families depend on blood donors every day, and your donation can save a life. The need for ...

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• American military medicine has been the cornerstone of medical accomplishments since the founding of the United States. ...

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• On the battlefield and off. Yesterday and today. Women in military health have been more than doctors or nurses. They're ...

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• Lynn "Doc" Munger was a 23-year-old pharmacist's mate during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. When Munger ...

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• This Veterans Day, the Military Health System remembers U.S. Army Spc. 5th Class Clarence Eugene Sasser who received a ...

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• This Veterans Day 2023, the Military Health System honors military medical personnel who went above and beyond the call ...

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• U.S. Army Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Telita Crosland becomes the fourth director of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) in a ceremony ...

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• Electronic records are so common, it's hard to remember a time they weren't around. Learn about the #genesisofGENESIS and ...

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• Did you know that Abraham Lincoln's first responder was a military doctor? Military medicine has come a long way since ...

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• Before his midnight ride, Paul Revere was an amateur dentist. See how his work during the Revolutionary War inspired the ...

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