MilitaryTimes March 31, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the world and our nation, one steadying and encouraging resource has been the nation’s military. The Department of Defense (DoD) activated thousands of National Guardsmen and Reservists, tapping into our nation’s largest source for medical surge capability.
Military medicine has long been a critically valuable source of research, insight, training and skill for the nation and now is no different. Yet even as leaders turn to the military for manpower, medics, and expertise, the Defense Department is engineering a reduction of that system. Following through on this plan would be a terrible mistake.
DoD’s so-called Military Health System (MHS) Reform would eliminate up to 18,000 military medical personnel — 4,000...
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