Military medicine
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The U. S. military has recently been involved in many humanitarian assistance and disaster response missions around the world. This newfound role is in response to the U. ⋯ With each of these humanitarian assistance and disaster response missions, the U. S. military has learned how to more rapidly insert desperately needed services and skill sets into disaster-struck communities, how to arrange for in-country services (translation services, transportation, etc.) that cannot be readily brought in, and how to work closely with foreign governments and nongovernmental organizations to determine their needs and expectations without the U. S. military appearing as if it were trying to establish a permanent presence.
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The objective of this study was to evaluate the distributions of U. S. Marine Corps and Army wounded in action (WIA) and disease and nonbattle injury (DNBI) casualties during Operation Iraqi Freedom Major Combat Phase (OIF-1) and Support and Stability Phase (OIF-2). ⋯ Marines had a higher proportion of WIA and nonbattle injuries than soldiers. Although overall DNBI distributions for men and women were statistically different, their distributions of types of nonbattle injuries were similar. Identifying differences in injury and illness distributions by characteristics of the casualty population is necessary for military medical readiness planning.