With the american soldier goes american medicine. Backing him up by his side, with him in his advance. In wartime and in peace, the medical department carries on, fighting disease, healing and rehabilitating the sick and wounded and working to search out disease vectors to prevent, detect and control epidemics. To pursue this mission successfully, the medical department was backed up by a farflung network of laboratories stretching from north to south, from east to west. Clinical, Public Health and Research Laboratories were required everywhere. Diseases new to the army doctor were being encountered, new procedures, methods of treatment and control had to be developed and evaluated. Operation and combat under extreme heat and cold produced problems that were a challenge to the medical department and its laboratories. Behind this vast medical Laboratory Organization which followed the armies to every distant outpost on our fighting front were the Mission Divisions and services of the Su
Narrator with the american soldier goes american medicine, backing him up, by his side, with him in his advance. In wartime and peace, the medical department carries on, fighting disease, healing and rehabilitating the sick and wounded, and constantly working to search out disease vectors to prevent, detect, and control epidemics. To pursue this mission successfully, the medical department was backed up by a farflung network of laboratories stretching from north to south, east to west. Clinical, Public Health, and Research Laboratories were required everywhere. Diseases new to the army doctor were being encountered. New diagnostic procedures, methods of treatment and control had to be developed and evaluated. Operation and combat under extreme heat and cold produced a produced problems that were a challenge to the medical department and its laboratories. Behind this vast medical Laboratory Organization which followed the armies to every distant outpost on our fighting fronts were the m
Morning and on a 7 am flight. It turned out that the earliest she would be able to get in because of a problem with planes was 2 am yesterday. She is not here with us and we have instead a graduate student here at ku on military history to read her paper. The questions will only be to the other adjustments. Marjorie will not answer questions. Although im sure she would do a lovely job. So the speakers today on our second session, we began with William Donnelly Senior Historian at the u. S. Army center of military history. And followed by eric flynn the director of the lewis army museum. And finally, the paper read by marjorie. First as a set federal Civil Servant i give the usual disclaimer that the opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the secretary of the army of the chief of staff or anyone else in the department of the army. Now president johnson and congress in june 1967 decided to and almost all graduate school draft deferment. Johnson deferred this decision in exe
Was a Mysterious Illness that point everybodys attention highly lethal. And it started to spread people died this was on the heels and nine all over. It was chaos we didnt know who was doing it. [theme music] welcome to how it really happened. Im jesse l. Martin. A suspicious letter arrives in the mail. Inside the envelope, a white powder. The fbi responds because today, thoughts immediately turned to terrorism. That fear was born out of an attack in september 2001. Just one week after the tragedy of 9 11, powderlaced letters began to make their way through the us postal system. The potential of murder by mail gripped the country with fear and launched one of the largest investigations in fbi history. This is how it really happened. [music playing] [people screaming] get out get out look out look out look out today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. It was something that the imagination didnt ca
Sunday. This was a Mysterious Illness that caught everybodys attention. Highly lethal, and it started to spread, people died. This was on the heels of 9 11. It was chaos. We didnt know what was going to happen next. We knew it was intentional but we didnt know who was doing it. [theme music] welcome to how it really happened. Im jesse l. Martin. A suspicious letter arrives in the mail. Inside the envelope, a white powder. The fbi responds because today, thoughts immediately turned to terrorism. That fear was born out of an attack in september 2001. Just one week after the tragedy of 9 11, powderlaced letters began to make their way through the us postal system. The potential of murder by mail gripped the country with fear and launched one of the largest investigations in fbi history. This is how it really happened. [music playing] [people screaming] get out get out look out look out look out today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of