The Military Health System is an interconnected network of service members whose mission is to support the lives and families of those who support our country. Everyday in the MHS advancements are made in the lab, in the field, and here at home. These are just a few articles highlighting those accomplishments that don't always make it to the front page of local papers.
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Aug 29, 2025
As the 2025–2026 school year gets underway, Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital has reintroduced its school-based behavioral health program, placing an experienced clinical social worker inside Parkway Elementary School to provide direct care for military children.
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Aug 27, 2025
Former Joint Staff Surgeon Air Force Brig. Gen. (Dr.) John R. Andrus, who retires on Sept. 1, 2025, shares his unparalleled career of service to military families, U.S. airmen and Guardians, the joint staff, and combatant commands. With an extensive background in operational medicine and warfighter health stretching from land to space, Andrus provides ...
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Aug 27, 2025
When the U.S. Navy Dental Corps was officially birthed, Aug. 22, 1912, Sailors were drilled that individual oral health was crucial in putting their bite in the fight for operational readiness.
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Aug 27, 2025
In a simulated drone-attack scenario at Fort Detrick, Maryland, medics moved quickly--recording vital signs, injuries, and treatments on a tablet before transferring the data with a single scan.
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Aug 27, 2025
The 56th Air Refueling Squadron took off from Altus Air Force Base in support of the joint medical exercise “Vapor Trails” at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 21, 2025.
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Aug 27, 2025
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine may have found a genetic marker for adaptability to stress – a discovery that could potentially open the door to new methods for helping Warfighters manage stress more effectively and perhaps even to therapies for treating stress-induced trauma such as post-traumatic stress disorder
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Aug 26, 2025
A history of medical transport and aeromedical evacuation is told through the pioneering work of U.S. Army Maj. Gen. David Norvell Walker Grant, the “grandfather” of the present-day Air Force Medical Service.
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Aug 26, 2025
As the U.S. military observes Suicide Prevention Month in September there is a renewed focus on destigmatizing behavioral health care and promoting available resources for servicemembers and their families.
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Aug 26, 2025
A sailor serving aboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point was recently honored for her service to the communities surrounding the installation.
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Aug 26, 2025
Military medics undergo intensive preparation that spans classroom instruction and field exercises. U.S. Army medics complete 16 weeks of training—six weeks earning their emergency medical technician certification, followed by 10 weeks of combat casualty care.
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Aug 26, 2025
U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Chief Select Kazia Marecheau, a Midcoast Maine native, has been selected for advancement to chief petty officer and for a direct commission into the Medical Service Corps after 15 years of naval service.
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Aug 25, 2025
Embedded in medical specialty outpatient clinics at Walter Reed, Health Psychology Service staff members provide same-day access to care for beneficiaries with behavioral health challenges.
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Aug 25, 2025
Paraguayan and U.S. medical professionals joined forces during AMISTAD 2025, Aug. 9, 2025, to perform a complex six-hour reconstructive surgery, restoring both the face and the vision of a young man gravely injured in a violent robbery.
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Aug 25, 2025
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has starkly demonstrated the vulnerability of traditional medical infrastructure to deliberate attack, prompting a remarkable adaptation in Ukrainian battlefield medicine.
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Aug 25, 2025
During a visit to the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute, flight nurses from the Royal Thai Air Force received an education on the Preparatory Iraqi Nursing Course by Dr. Darrin Frye, chief science director, Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio.
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Last Updated: February 14, 2025