United States: Deployment Environmental Reports Not in Military Health Records

Nov 1, 2015 | Patricia Kime, Military Times
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For more than three years, the military services have been allowed to ignore a Defense Department order requiring the inclusion of environmental assessments of combat environments in troops' medical records. The Pentagon in 2006 published an instruction requiring the services add occupational and environmental risk assessments generated for locations during a certain period into medical records of troops who served in the affected place and time.