Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Sailor conducts her physical fitness assessment. (MC3 Julio Martinez Martinez/U.S.

Cuts to the military medical budget over the years and delays in implementing reforms across the Defense Department health system have undermined the Pentagon's ability to care for troops in wartime, ...

Senators are delving into the question of whether the military establishment is prepared to handle mass combat casualties. Shown here, Idaho National Guard members conduct medevac training in 2022.

Navy Hospital Corpsmen are the backbone of medical support in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Trained to handle everything from combat trauma to preventive care, they operate in war zones, aboard ...

James "Jimmy" Twedt, a 17-year-old from Roland, Iowa, was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. Twedt, a Navy corpsman, was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his ...