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A battlefield promotion is awarded to enlisted soldiers who are promoted to a higher enlisted rank during combat or combat conditions. The US Army discontinued this practice after the Vietnam War with the centralized promotion system, but in 2009 decided to again allow such promotions. [3] "Battlefield promotions are predicated on extraordinary ...
In July 1941, Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall was given permission by Congress to remove inefficient Regular Army officers from active duty, and used stricter Army regulations to cull the ranks of over-age, medically, or professionally-unfit officers to create more vacancies for junior officers.
In 1909, the training contained a basic course of discipline and the duties of a soldier, drill and field work, animal care and horseback riding, anatomy and physiology, first aid and personal and camp hygiene, and nursing for all candidates, and a complete course for those with special aptitude, which added army regulations, cooking, Materia ...
On March 1, 1887, [38] the enlisted men of the Medical Department were organized into a Hospital Corps with the ranks of hospital steward, acting hospital steward and private of the hospital corps. Chevrons were prescribed on August 11, 1887. The colors for the Hospital Corps would be green with white stitching.
The U.S. Army asked nearly 20 high-ranking officers who were planning to retire or move to another job to delay their career moves and stay in their current roles through December.
When family members of veterans are included, the uninsured total rises to 2.3 million. An additional 900,000 veterans use VA health care but have no other coverage. Uninsured veterans are more likely to be male (90%), non-Hispanic white (70%), unmarried (58%) and earned a high school degree (41%). More than 40% are younger than 45.
Section 8 was a category of military discharge employed by the United States Armed Forces which was used for servicemembers judged mentally unfit for service. The term "Section 8" eventually came to mean any service member given such a discharge, or behaving as if deserving such a discharge, as in the expression, "he's a Section 8".
At the time of its creation, the Special Forces Tab was retroactively awarded to any Army soldiers previously Special Forces-qualified. In addition, as set forth in Army regulations, veterans of certain categories of former wartime service are also eligible for retroactive awards of the tab. Among these are: [1]