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‘Thanks, it has pockets!’: Service Khaki slacks featuring back pockets now available to female sailors
BLUF – The Navy has introduced redesigned Service Khaki slacks for female sailors featuring back pockets and a new modernized sizing system developed in response to sailor feedback, with the goal of providing a more consistent fit, reducing alterations, and improving overall comfort and functionality.
On Day 3 of MHSRS 2026, USU Research Confronts the Threats a Force Can’t See
BLUF – On the third day of the 2026 Military Health System Research Symposium, Uniformed Services University researchers highlighted studies focused on improving warfighter survivability and recovery, including advances in prolonged casualty care, infectious disease prevention, rehabilitation, operational psychology, and the use of artificial intelligence and data science to support military medical decision-making. For Navy Medicine, the research demonstrates how multidisciplinary collaboration is accelerating the translation of scientific discoveries into practical capabilities that enhance expeditionary medicine, combat casualty care, force health protection, and readiness across the Military Health System.
https://news.usuhs.edu/2026/08/on-day-3-of-mhsrs-2026-usu-research.html
From Feldshers to Force Health Protection: A History of Navy Physician Associates
BLUF – The article traces the evolution of the Navy physician associate profession from its early inspiration by Russian “feldshers” in the early 1900s through the formal establishment of the Navy Physician Assistant Program in the 1970s, highlighting how former Hospital Corpsmen have become an essential component of operational and clinical medicine across the Fleet and Marine Corps. For Navy Medicine, the history underscores the enduring value of physician associates in expanding access to high-quality care, enhancing operational medical readiness, and providing versatile clinical leadership in deployed, expeditionary, and military treatment facility settings.
Sharpening the Caduceus: How NEMWDC is forging the next generation of expeditionary Hospital Corpsmen
BLUF – The Naval Expeditionary Medicine Warfighter Development Center (NEMWDC) is transforming the training of Hospital Corpsmen through high-fidelity, expeditionary scenarios that prepare Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System (ERSS) and En Route Care System (ERCS) teams to deliver autonomous trauma care in austere, distributed maritime operations, emphasizing adaptability, damage control surgery, prolonged casualty care, and multifunctional operational skills. For Navy Medicine, the training represents a fundamental shift from hospital-based practice to expeditionary warfighting medicine, ensuring corpsmen and medical teams can provide seamless, lifesaving care from the point of injury through evacuation in future large-scale combat operations.
This Is What Actually Happens When Your Military DEERS Record Goes Out of Date
BLUF – An out-of-date DEERS record can quietly interrupt access to critical military benefits, including TRICARE claims processing, pharmacy services, commissary and exchange privileges, dependent ID cards, and base access, often without advance warning, making regular updates after life events such as marriage, retirement, relocation, or a child aging out of eligibility essential. For Navy Medicine, maintaining accurate DEERS information is critical to ensuring uninterrupted healthcare coverage, timely access to military treatment facilities and pharmacies, and continuity of care for service members, retirees, and their families.
As MHSRS 2026 Opens, USU Research Looks to the Future Fight
BLUF – Uniformed Services University researchers opened the 2026 Military Health System Research Symposium by presenting research focused on future battlefield challenges, including more realistic airway management training, early detection of blast-related brain injury, penetrating brain trauma, and drug-resistant combat wound infections, while military leaders emphasized translating scientific discoveries into capabilities that improve warfighter care. For Navy Medicine, the presentations highlight continued investment in operationally relevant research that will strengthen combat casualty care, traumatic brain injury management, infectious disease response, and expeditionary medical readiness for future large-scale conflicts.
https://news.usuhs.edu/2026/08/as-mhsrs-2026-opens-usu-research-looks.html
Finance Friday Articles
- An Advisor’s Guide To Opening 530A “Trump Accounts”
- An Appropriate Amount of Investing Risk
- I just received a lump-sum payout. What should I do first?
- Investing is a Game of Survival
- Reducing Spending Throughout Retirement
- Retirement is Squishy
- The 11 Boglehead Principles
- The Benefits and Pitfalls of Entering the World of Concierge Medicine/Direct Primary Care
- The Best Way to Sell a Concentrated Position
- This is how much money we need to be happy, according to science
- What It Feels Like to Lose Money
- What Types of Annuities Does the TSP Offer?
Pioneering medical researchers honored with 2026 Military Health System Research Symposium Awards
BLUF – The article highlights the work of military and civilian researchers whose innovations were recognized at the 2026 Military Health System Research Symposium Awards, honoring advances in areas including blood product use in austere environments, warfighter vision readiness, respiratory disease, cold-weather injuries, and bone stress injuries that directly improve the health and survivability of service members. For Navy Medicine, the awards underscore the critical role of research and innovation in advancing operational medicine, combat casualty care, and force readiness by translating scientific discoveries into practical capabilities for deployed clinicians and warfighters.
https://health.mil/News/Dvids-Articles/2026/08/03/news571374