| DRASH Shelters Facilitate Pandemic Response On September 21, 2009, staff at the Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas set up two DRASH 5XB Shelters outside of the hospital’s emergency room to serve as triage and treatment centers during this year’s flu season. The shelters, which together offer more than 700 square feet of usable space for triage and treatment, were first purchased by the Seton Family of Hospitals – a healthcare network in Central Texas - last year.Since the H1N1 Swine Flu virus first appeared in the United States this past April, the Dell Children’s Medical Center has experienced a huge influx of pati... army-technology.com |
Kirkuk Library Gets Major Facelift The Army Corps of Engineers is giving a major facelift to a Kirkuk, Iraq, library, preserving the historic structure while adding modern amenities. defenselink.mil |
Protect Your Troops from Harmful Gun Lubricants Conventional gun lubricants typically contain perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), two potential highly carcinogenic substances which cannot be broken down by heat, light, or microbes. It is common practice for lubricant manufacturers to make use of these substances as they are known to impart lubricating properties into the finished product; however the dangerous fact that they can also cause cancer is not regarded sufficiently and is widely neglected.Studies reported by the United States’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have shown that rats fed PFOA w... army-technology.com |
President Signs 2010 Defense Budget Into Law Defense officials are hailing passage of the fiscal 2010 budget that funds military programs and wartime operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and provides a military pay raise. defense.gov |
Arrival of Comfort Broadens Military's Mission in Haiti The arrival of the USNS Comfort, a military hospital ship, adds some 600 medical personnel to the humanitarian effort in Haiti, roughly tripling the number of American medical workers tending to the devastated country. defense.gov |