Medical Personnel

Pentagon officials are keeping quiet on details surrounding a plan to cut 18,000 medical billets across the military.

The draft House defense authorization bill also contains health and child care provisions.

The House Appropriations Committee passed the fiscal 2020 Defense Appropriations bill 30 to 22.

The Navy hospital ship Comfort will deploy next month to the Caribbean and Central and South America to provide assistance.

In a budget hearing on Tuesday, the services' surgeons general addressed realignment of the medical forces.

"Roughly 15,000" military medical billets are slated to become civilian jobs.

The reduction will allow those billets to be repurposed as war fighters or combat-support skills to increase lethality.

Attorney says the justices' unique request signals interest in a military medical malpractice case.

So far, Operation Enduring Promise 2018 has treated about 20,000 patients in Latin American countries.

More efficient blood warmers are a solution the AFSOC teams hope they can soon procure for their makeshift trauma rooms.