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US News & World Report: Pentagon Plans Massive Reorganization of Military Medicine
Here’s a link to this recent and controversial article:
The Navy is Not Going to Let You Retire Early
There have been recent discussions about cuts in military medicine and POM20, and some people found this recently signed policy about early retirements. They put 2 and 2 together and figured that they might be able to retire early.
The message from BUMED is that this was merely the required periodic update of the existing early retirement policy. It was unfortunate timing and there are no plans to use it that they know of.
If that changes, you’ll hear it here as soon as I can get it out there.
Military.com – More Than 17,000 Uniformed Medical Jobs Eyed for Elimination
Here is an article about the cuts, also discussed in my POM20 post:
More Than 17,000 Uniformed Medical Jobs Eyed for Elimination
Four Interesting Reads from Today’s Early Bird – Feres Doctrine and the Future of Navy Medicine
Here are four articles from this morning’s Early Bird of particular interest to those in Navy Medicine:
DoD hopes medical realignment will help prepare for fight against global powers
Navy Medical Corps Worries Future Funding Cuts Will Result in Fewer Doctors
Petition Calling Congress To Change The Feres Doctrine Reaches 17,000 Signatures
Vice Adm. Forrest Faison Discusses the Future of Navy Medicine at AMSUS
