Eight US Air Force medics from bases in Arizona, California, North Dakota, and Texas are working with Ecuadorian military doctors to aid victims of the Tungurahua volcano eruption earlier this month. US Southern Command asked for medical personnel in family practice, dermatology, ophthalmology, and eye, ear, nose, and throat. The nearly 1,500 patients treated over a three-day period suffered most from eye, sinus, and throat problems. (Read more here.)
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
