Army researchers showcase Performance Readiness Bar

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05/26/2017

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Army researchers showcase Performance Readiness Bar

A broad audience ranging from high school students and military cadets to general officers and government Senior Executive Service had an opportunity during the Department of Defense Lab Day at the Pentagon on May 18 to learn about the science behind the Performance Readiness Bar, a calcium and vitamin D-fortified snack bar developed to optimize bone health in basic trainees.

 

Use of the snack bar is slated to begin at Fort Benning, Georgia, this summer and will be fully implemented at all four Army basic training locations in 2018.

 

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Airmen, Sailors support life-saving mission

Recently, Airmen and Sailors worked together to outfit a C-17 Globemaster III with life-saving equipment at Kadena AB.

 

Together, the Airmen and Sailors prepared the logistics and materials for a specialized life-support omnibed system that was put into an Air Force C-17 for the first time. The bed was required to transport a 16-month-old burn victim from U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan, to Travis Air Force Base, California, where he will be transferred to a civilian hospital for treatment.

 

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