The effectiveness of Soldier Medical Readiness Councils in reducing and shaping the population of soldiers not medically deployable.

The population of Soldiers not medically fit for deployment has created readiness problems for the U.S. Army in recent years.

Medical capacity building efforts in northern Iraq 2009-2010.

The authors provide some back ground and general concepts for medical stability operations or medical civil military operations. Some novel programs were developed in northern Iraq, which have applicability to the greater military medical community. Train the trainer emergency medical technician and first aid course curriculums were developed and translated into Arabic and Kurdish and implemented by U.

Perceptions of frontline providers on the appropriate qualifications for battalion level care in United States Army ground maneuver forces.

Objectives: The U.S. Army emplaces physician assistants (PAs) in its maneuver battalions.