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Sexually Transmitted Infections
Ask the Flight Surgeon / By MAJ (Dr.) Roger Williams & CPT (Dr.) Gurdeep Buttar: Q: Doc, I go to my flight surgeon every few months to get checked for sexually transmitted infections. I have been treated three times in the last year for these infections and I was wondering how this could affect my flight status. FS: From a military perspective, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), have a significant impact on the medical readiness of individual service members and degrades force health protection. According to the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch, between 2010-2018, approximately 350,000 service members were diagnosed with an...
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Branch Chief / By MG David J. Francis: Success no longer goes to the country that develops a new fighting technology first, but rather to the one that better integrates it and adapts its way of fighting… – The National Defense Strategy (2018) Helicopters of the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, stage on Chièvres Air Base, Belgium, Oct. 17, 2019 before deploying to more than 17 countries in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve./ U.S. ARMY PHOTO BY VISUAL INFORMATION SPECIALIST HENRI CAMBIER Once again we are at a defining moment for Army Aviation as we move ever closer...
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President’s Cockpit / MG Jeff Schloesser, U.S. Army Retired: U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence commander and Aviation Branch Chief, MG Dave Francis hosted a superb Army Aviation Senior Leaders Forum at Fort Rucker, AL a few weeks ago. MG Jeff Schloesser, U.S. Army Retired34th President, AAAAThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Brigade command teams attending the Aviation Senior Leaders Forum at Fort Rucker gather in the Museum at the start of the annual Awards Dinner January 29, 2020 featuring AAAA Functional Awards and LTG Ellis D Parker Awards./ AAPI PHOTO...
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Family Forum / By Judy Konitzer: It is that time for making New Year’s resolutions, and here is one that is truly worth considering. Become a VOLUNTEER! The word derived from the French “Voluntaire” dates back to around 1600 as “one who offered himself for military service.” By the mid-19th century, the word “volunteering” expanded to a non-military sense which included community service. On 8 Dec. Charlie Company, 2916th Avn Bn, 916th Support Brigade, NTC, Fort Irwin, CA organized “Black Hawk Photos with Santa.” Soldier and Family members volunteered to fulfill the roles as photographer, photo op assistant and greeter,...
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Aviation Maintenance/Sustainment / By Ms. Debbie Daniel and Mr. Fred W. Pieper, Jr.: The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) is driving forward and challenging the status quo; and that is readily present in optimizing the supply chain. The following article describes the Army’s efforts to develop a predictive analysis capability integral to the supply chain management. The effort to develop the predictive analysis capability in the supply chain will span and engage all sustainment logistics business areas including, Business and Finance; Supply Chain Execution; Supply Chain Planning; Product Logistics Management; and U.S. Army PFC Tess Sandoval assigned to...
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