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2 MEB Gets Ready For Afghanistan
Combating insurgency in Afghanistan is not the only challenge awaiting the Marines and sailors of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade. In addition to enemy combatants, Marines deploying to Afghanistan’s Regional Command-South will also face a number of potential health threats. The Central Asian country has been labeled by the World Health Organization as one of the least developed countries in the world, with 70 percent of the population living in extreme poverty and health vulnerability. Several food-, water-, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Marines, Military, War on Terror
Leprosy in Arkansas
The multi-cultural nature of the United States has once again been revealed by the outbreak of serious disease in an immigrant population. The good thing is that these diseases are treatable and curable. The bad thing is that this is a population that will tend to be non-compliant with treatment. In 1986, a compact was created between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The compact granted the Marshall Islands — the site of numerous nuclear tests between 1947 and 1962 — its sovereignty and allowed the U.S. to continue maintaining a missile test site at the Kwajalein Atoll. The compact also allows citizens of the Marshall Islands to live and work in the United States without being subject to U.S. immigration laws, but they are ineligible for Medicare, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, Medicine, Original writing
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