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The New Process Is Validated! Designation and Approval of Flag Grade Billets |
| A current list of flag grade billets has been approved. This is the first review and assessment using the
new process described in the Subchapter CC23.4, INSTRUCTION 7 “Flag Grade Officer Selection and Assignment”...see full story |
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PHS Instrumental Ensemble |
All sights were set for the Commissioned Officers Association’s (COA) 40th Annual Public Health Professional Conference at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel in Philadelphia, PA,
6-9 June, 2005. Quietly behind the scenes, officers of the Public Health Service (PHS) Instrumental Ensemble had been practicing, readying their instruments for the annual get-together...see full story
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APAOC Successfully Implements an Online Voting System |
| The Asian Pacific American Officers Committee (APAOC) successfully implemented an online voting system to enhance the ability of the committee to conduct official business...see full story |
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Deployment to Haiti Following Hurricane |
| Rusted metal hospital bed frames, piles of mud-covered debris, water lines on the walls reaching upwards of eight feet—these are
all images encountered during a surveillance of La Providence Hospital in Gonaives, Haiti...see full story |
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FIT FOR DUTY. . .FIT FOR LIFE! |
| In 2004, VADM Richard Carmona, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service issued a Surgeon General’s Report on bone health and osteoporosis to provide much needed information on bone health...see full story
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Meet the New Chief Professional Officer for the Dietitian Category |
CAPT Janice Huy was selected as the Chief Professional Officer for the Dietitian category effective 1 June 2005.
As Chief Dietitian Officer, CAPT Huy is responsible for providing leadership and coordination of Public Health Service (PHS)
dietitian professional affairs for the Office of the Surgeon General and the Department of Health and Human Services...see full story |
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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month |
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May is dedicated as Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month. Representatives Frank Horton of New York and Norman Y. Mineta of California first established it in
June 1977 in celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States...see full story |
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