COMBAT SURVIVABILITY HAS DOUBLED SINCE VIETNAM, SAYS ASSISTANT SECRETARY
August 14, 2008
August 14, 2008
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Army issued the following news release:
Recent advances in combat medicine are saving servicemembers' lives at unprecedented rates, the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs told a group of government and medical officials at a "Government Executive" event Wednesday.
Dr. S. Ward Casscells said new medicines, equipment, protective gear and better facilities have decreased the military's died-of-wounds ra . . .
Recent advances in combat medicine are saving servicemembers' lives at unprecedented rates, the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs told a group of government and medical officials at a "Government Executive" event Wednesday.
Dr. S. Ward Casscells said new medicines, equipment, protective gear and better facilities have decreased the military's died-of-wounds ra . . .