Posted by GruntDoc on 28th March 2003
Rick sent me a very amusing link to Ftrain.com’s American Military Operation Name Generating Device.
A sample:
Operation Infallible Gunship
Operation Massive Toad
Operation Sexually Ambiguous Assassination
Operation Bloodthirsty Wizard
Operation Umbrageous Rain of Burning Death
Operation Hot Marsupial
Operation Touchy Amphibian
Operation Medieval Teacher
Operation Furious Capitalists
Operation Very Mad Imperialism
Operation Plunging Supernova
My favorite one so far was Operation Ceasless Wombat. Reload often for new names, and remember this page should the Pentagon ask you to name an operation.
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Posted by GruntDoc on 28th March 2003
Medscape (link requires free registration) has an interview with Col. Cliff Cloonan, MD, chairman of military and emergency medicine at F. Edward H?bert School of Medicine, the military medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. His CV is impressive, and he knows what he’s talking about. His experience is Army, and so’s his jargon, but the medicine is the same (though Navy Corpsmen are better trained than the basic Army medic).
Medscape: Does working in desert conditions while traveling pose unique challenges, such as maintaining a clean field during surgery, or preventing shock in injured patients exposed to extremes of heat and cold?
Col. Cloonan: Most wars are fought in uncomfortable, dirty, nasty environments, but that’s just where we operate. In Korea we had the freezing cold; in Iraq we have the blazing heat and windstorms blowing sand in your eyes. We tend not to fight wars in Hawaii.
I like this, and hope Medscape gets their in-theater doctor/reporter they want.
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