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Medical should immediately be joint and separate -- maybe the deployed-with-unit combat medics should belong to each service, but there is no justification for
by rdl 11y ago
Medical should immediately be joint and separate -- maybe the deployed-with-unit combat medics should belong to each service, but there is no justification for the Navy, Air Force, and Army to all run separate medical and medical-logistics commands, role 3 hospitals (role 2 is borderline), stateside and fixed-base facilities like Landstuhl, etc.
Medical and Medical Service Corps are pretty borderline inherently-military, anyway; they could be a (uniformed?) federal service, able to handle disaster relief and public health, as well as treating the injured in war. We have PHS already.
(This also solves the VA vs. Active Duty healthcare difference; a unified records system and other processes for both would be ideal.)