Surveillance Snapshot: Illness and Injury Burdens, Reserve Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2019
Soldiers from each of the United States Army’s three components partnered together to conduct a training exercise at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, in January 2020. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Capt. Gurney F. Pearsall III)
5/1/2020
By:
Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch Communications Team
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