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Helping To Raise Awareness About Veterans And Mesothelioma.
HOW MESOTHELIOMA AFFECTS YOUR BODY Mesothelioma is cancer caused by exposure to asbestos that most often forms in the lining of the lungs or abdomen. As it grows and spreads, different physical and mental effects are felt in the body. Understanding what to expect, as well as receiving the proper resources and information from qualified experts, is a step in the right direction to treating this rare cancer. Many people diagnosed with mesothelioma wonder exactly how the disease affects their body. You may be curious about what the cancer is doing to you physically and if there’s anything you can...
What Are MREs? Here's a little food for thought.
What Are MREs? MRE stands for “Meals Ready to Eat”. All the contents of these shelf stable foods are fully cooked and can be eaten hot or cold. An MRE will provide good taste and proper nutrition while maintaining a safe, long shelf life. Each MRE replicates the calorie count of a complete meal. There is no need to add water to an MRE. Simply open the pouch and enjoy! The big breakthrough was the POUCH. Its three special layers allow the food to be fully cooked, sealed and never exposed to the air again. The resulting taste and texture...
A Fasten-ating Story about ALICE & MOLLE!
A Brief History of Dog Tags
Dog Tags are meant to be used as a form of identification when a soldier is wounded or lost in battle, usually in some form where one or part can be left with the soldier while the other is used by those that need to keep track of such things. The set of Dog Tags has become a ubiquitous symbol associated with military service, the metal tags, hanging from chains around a soldier’s neck – or often hung as part of a make-shift memorial. These ID tags come to signify something very personal for the soldier, and unfortunately all too...
Free Medical Manuals
The New Hampsire Tactical Emergency Medical Support (NH-TEMS) group has a resource site for New England's Tactical Medic & Navy Corpsmen that provides medical information for the medic and operator. There's a lot of great information throughout the site for anyone looking for some reference material on handling various emergency medical situations - be it while hunting, camping, during some sort of natural disaster or other survival situation. These resources are not going to take the place of actual training, but if you have some basic skills, you can likely pick up a trick or two from the resources available here....