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Military Health System

Our History

Military medicine has a long and celebrated history. We apply lessons from our past to improve the care of military personnel and their families today and in the future. New surgical techniques, powerful painkillers, antibiotic drugs, and triage and evacuation procedures have revolutionized military medicine.

In this section, you'll find featured stories and information about the history of military medicine.

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suicide prevention

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9/8/2015

U.S. Air Force photo illustration by Tech. Sgt. Nadine Y. Barclay

MFST ECCT

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9/8/2015

Airmen from the 379th Expeditionary Medical Group Mobile Field Surgical Team discuss the actions and supplies needed during a timed training scenario to help with familiarization training August 28, 2015 at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.

NMHM MRMC DHA

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9/4/2015

Army Maj. Gen. Brian C. Lein, Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick (right), speaks with Beth Eubanks, registrar, National Museum of Health and Medicine and Alan Hawk, NMHM historical collections manager, following a ceremony held on Friday, Aug. 28, 2015 to acknowledge the transition of NMHM from USAMRMC to the Defense Health Agency. (Photo by Matthew Breitbart, National Museum of Health and Medicine)

WWII

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9/4/2015

As an ambulance jeep evacuates three wounded U.S. soldiers to a rear area field hospital, one is given blood plasma en route by corpsmen of 102nd Medical Battalion. On Okinawa, April 22, 1945. (Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine)

Physical Therapy Biomedical Sciences

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9/4/2015

Air Force Capt. Jared Bueche, physical therapist, works with a patient. Eligible Airmen interested in biomedical sciences education or commissioning opportunities can now apply for any of the four available Biomedical Sciences Corps programs now accepting applications, including physical therapy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Eric Peterson)

ARMYfit

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9/3/2015

An ArmyFit user accesses the site remotely without a common access card, one of the benefits of the new site. (Courtesy photo)

McLamb

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9/3/2015

North Carolina Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Russell McLamb (right), an aeromedical evacuation technician, helps load an injured service member onto a C-17 Globemaster III on the flight line at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.

HERO Stone

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9/2/2015

Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone (right) receives occupational therapy from Capt. Ashley Welsh during an Aug. 31, 2015, appointment at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany.

Sleeping Soldier

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9/2/2015

U.S. Army Sgt. Jeremy Minner, 153rd Military Police Company, Delaware Army National Guard, sleeps on his flak jacket at the Trent Lott National Guard Training Complex in Gulfport, Miss.

TBI

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9/1/2015

Experts from across the Department of Defense took part in a roundtable discussion focused on traumatic brain injury research at the 2015 Military Health System Research Symposium.

Ebola Protective Equipment

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8/31/2015

A health care worker attending the Department of Defense Ebola Treatment Training Team’s class at the National Police Training Academy, Paynesville, Liberia, recovers after encountering an expert patient trainer who simulated a suspected Ebola patient who becomes confused and aggressive during his stay at an Ebola treatment unit.

BAMC Vaccum Assisted Closure Device

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8/31/2015

Army Col. Evan Renz explains the function of a vacuum-assisted closure device to Indalecio Morales while Morales' wife, Maribel, looks on in the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center at San Antonio Military Medical Center.

AFHSC

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8/28/2015

The Global Emerging Infections Surveillance (GEIS) Operations section provided funding for DoD laboratories involved in the Ebola Outbreak Response in West Africa

Vision

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8/28/2015

Maj. (Dr.) Lisa Mihora, a 332nd Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron ophthalmologist, prepares to cut a suture during a trauma surgery to repair a patient's eye.

No heat

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8/28/2015

Air Force pararescuemen, 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, and a U.S. Army Site Security Team soldier, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery Regiment, load a mock isolated person onto a stretcher during a training exercise in the heat of the Grand Bara Desert, Djibouti.

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Last Updated: March 17, 2023
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