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  • Drug-monitoring innovations help providers assist patients

    Two Military Health System innovations are helping ensure best practices for patients with pain, and for those who have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. According to Chris Nichols, the Defense Health Agency’s program manager for Enterprise Intelligence and Data Solutions, the MHS

  • New DOD policy prohibits GPS-enabled devices in deployed settings

    Deployed service members are going to have to ditch their “geolocation devices” in response to a new memo from Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan.This includes physical fitness aids, applications in phones that track locations, and other devices and apps that pinpoint and track the

  • DOD exempts wounded warriors from ‘deploy or get out’ policy

    Service members wounded in combat will be exempt from the Defense Department’s new policy to be deployable in 12 months or face separation from the military, according to a recent Pentagon announcement. The policy update came after criticism that DOD would be removing personnel who were only in

  • Stay covered after age 21 with TRICARE Young Adult

    Have you recently graduated from college, but not yet found your dream job? Or did you just turn 21, and are not enrolled in college?  If you are worried about your health care coverage as a military dependent, TRICARE Young Adult or TYA, may give you the coverage you need. TYA eligibility begins

  • Air University launches free mobile application

    Air University has launched a free mobile application designed to transform the way it interacts with audiences outside its academic institutions and to improve communications for those within its classrooms and workspaces. As of July 16, the Air University app, which can be found on both the Apple

  • Out of the darkness, on target

    Staff Sgt. Brent Young aimed for the bulls-eye at the 2018 Department of Defense Warrior Games and won a gold and a silver medal in archery competition.The 96th Security Forces Squadron member also netted a silver medal in wheelchair basketball at the games, held at the Air Force Academy in Colorado

  • Eligible veterans can seek refund for taxes on disability severance payment

    The Defense Department has identified more than 130,000 veterans who may be eligible for a refund for taxes paid on their disability severance payment, a DoD tax expert said.Army Lt. Col. David Dulaney, the executive director for the Armed Forces Tax Council, said the department began mailing

  • Offutt to host Warrior CARE Event

    The 55th Wing is scheduled to host an Air Force Wounded Warrior (AFW2) Program Caregiver Support, Adaptive Sports and Ambassador Workshop, Resiliency Programs and Recovering Airman Mentorship Program, and Empowerment in Transition Workshop (CARE) event July 23–27, here.These CARE events provide

  • 59th MDW expands wounded warrior care at MacDill AFB

    MacDill Air Force Base’s 6th Medical Wing’s dermatology clinic partnered with members from the 59th Medical Wing to learn fractional laser resurfacing, a treatment used by the 59th MDW since 2007, which provides patient-centered care to wounded warriors with traumatic amputations, burns and severe

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