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This year continues to be a turbulent one, with the devastation caused by hurricanes in the southern United States echoing the natural disasters so close to our own borders earlier this year. As signalled in the first journal this year, a themed edition will be published in November dedicated to Operation Tsunami/Sumatra Assist, and other… Read more »
As I sit here on a holiday long weekend, I am once again assailed by the news that ADF Health Personnel have been deployed to Bali to assist in the medevac and care of a number of Australians who have been severely injured as a result of terrorist bombings. It is the nature of our… Read more »
Short of participation in medical support of actual combat, there is no optimal educational medium to facilitate competence in the precepts of wartime casualty care. Consequently, there have been periodic calls for “military specific curricula” to help orient medical officers to the differences between the unique science of military medicine, and the practice of medicine… Read more »
The comedy/drama MASH, which concerned the lives of American army medical staff stationed just behind the front lines in the Korean War, was one of the most successful television programs of the 1970s. During its eleven year history, it presented an enormous range of issues from the essentials of friendship and loyalty to the concerns… Read more »
This paper discusses high velocity missile wounding caused by military projectiles. For the purpose of this paper, military projectiles considered will be those of eight mm diameter or less, fired from small arms like rifles, sub-machine guns and machine guns. High velocity is defined as speed in excess of 750 m sec1. EXPLANATION OF BALLISTIC… Read more »
EARLY TREATMENT With the vastly different technology, and almost primitive surgical skills, available to military commanders at the beginning of the nineteenth century, their attitude towards the wounded would appear to be callous. Apart from the commanders themselves, and perhaps some officers of nobility who might depend upon aides or personal servants to recover them… Read more »
‘We shot them under rule .303’1 ABSTRACT The .303 military round has been around for over 100 years and went from a round nose projectile full metal jacket, Mks I and II, to a soft point Mk II*, the so called dum-dum projectile. The hollow points, Mks III, IV and V, followed before going back… Read more »
ABSTRACT Thermobaric munitions are those munitions that, by design, produce more heat and overpressure than conventional explosives by exploding a vapour in the blast zone. Their main use initially was in airborne fuel-air explosive bombs. Whilst the United States has concentrated on airborne weapons, Russia has produced thermobaric weapons and warheads, from airborne bombs to… Read more »
ABSTRACT Non-lethal weapons have seen increasing use in the police forces and, more recently, the military forces of various countries around the world. With increased use in military operations in areas such as Panama and Somalia, there is an increasing likelihood of military health service officers coming in contact with the medical effects of these… Read more »
“Load up, load up, load up, the rubber bullets”1 INTRODUCTION The Australian Defence Force is becoming more involved in military non-combatant control and peacekeeping in areas such as Timor and Bougainville, boarding parties, and the handling of illegal immigrants. This is compounded by Defence Aid to the Civil Power requirements, in events such as boarding… Read more »
