Day: 2/2/2010

  • What's wrong with this picture?

    February 2, 2010

    By: Major Kendall Mower


    I had a bunch of cool cases yesterday, but got pictures from a couple of them.  See if you can spot what is wrong with the pictures. Straight teeth - can you figure out what's wrong? Same patient Yet another view.  Figure it out yet?  He's missing a pair of front teeth - his lateral incisors (the ones next to the middle two teeth). This patient came in on sick call.  He had had surgery a few days prior, and his uvula was pretty swollen.  He was sent to Walter Reed and the oral...read more

  • CAMP EGGERS

    February 2, 2010

    By: Lieutenant Colonel John Cook


    There is no place, anywhere, quite like Camp Eggers in downtown Kabul. Home to over 1,600 military and civilians, Camp Eggers is also home of the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan as well as the newly-formed NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan. Both of these organizations are commanded by LTG William Caldwell. In very simple terms, the mission of these two commands is to show the Afghans how to save their country and provide them the tools to do the job. The camp is named in...read more

  • CHANGE 5,000

    February 2, 2010

    By: Major Andreas Wooten


    OK, so I was supposed to go to Haiti as part of the forward deployed HQ of US ARMY SOUTH. Well, that didn't happen. We spent long hours and days planning, preparing, having briefings and meeting, waiting on planes and boats. In the long run, everything changed multiple times, the situation on the ground, higher command intent and missions along with the availability of aircraft, ships and barges. Bottom line is I still have my bags packed but I am still here, still going to planning meetings...read more