Courtesy Photo | Defense Health Agency | 02.04.2025
Military public health experts who have monitored the occurrence of eye injuries among active-duty personnel have reported that the numbers have continued to go down over the years. U.S. Army Col. Mark Reynolds, ophthalmologist and chief of the Clinical Public Health and Epidemiology Directorate at Defense Health Agency-Public Health in Aberdeen, says the decline in eye injuries is in large......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Neil W. McCabe | Army Reserve Medical Command | 04.18.2015
Ryan Kiernan, a search and rescue volunteer with the Weber County, Utah, Sheriff's Department, treats a boy with an eyeball popped out of its socket at the April 18, 2015 exercise held by the department and the Medical Readiness and Training Command's 2nd Medical Training Brigade, based at Fort Douglas, Utah. Kiernan said he joined the search and rescue team 11 or 12 years ago because he had......
Photo by Cpl. Jennifer Martinez | 8th Marine Corps District | 09.28.2013
Medically retired Cpl. Joshua D. Carpenter was awarded a Purple Heart during a ceremony at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint reserve Base, Sept. 28, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas. Almost 10 years prior, the former infantry rifleman sustained a severe eye injury from a fragmentation grenade during a deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II in Fallujah, Iraq, in April 2004.Carpenter......
Photo by Cpl. Jennifer Martinez | 8th Marine Corps District | 09.28.2013
Medically retired Cpl. Joshua D. Carpenter, former infantryman with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, received his Purple Heart Medal, Sept. 28, 2013, almost ten years after he was injured in Fallujah, Iraq. The Duncanville, Texas, native suffered from a detached retina after he was hit by the blast from a fragmentation grenade while conducting a security patrol with his squad to......
Photo by Cpl. Jennifer Martinez | 8th Marine Corps District | 09.28.2013
Medically retired Cpl. Joshua D. Carpenter, former infantry riflemen with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, receives congratulations and poses with family after his Purple Heart ceremony at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint reserve Base, Sept. 28, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas. Almost 10 years prior, the Duncanville, Texas native suffered from a detached retina after he was hit by......
Photo by Cpl. Jennifer Martinez | 8th Marine Corps District | 09.28.2013
Medically retired Cpl. Joshua D. Carpenter thanks his friends, family, and fellow Marines during his Purple Heart ceremony at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint reserve Base, Sept. 28, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas. He also thanked his former squad leader Master Sgt. Josue Magana for playing a key role in assuring the Duncanville, Texas, native finally received his award 10 years later....
Photo by Cpl. Jennifer Martinez | 8th Marine Corps District | 09.28.2013
Medically retired Cpl. Joshua D. Carpenter receives his Purple Heart during a ceremony at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Sept. 28, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas. Carpenter's former squad leader, Master Sgt. Josue Magana, who Carpenter says played a key role in assuring he finally received his award, pins the Purple Heart Medal onto Carpenter almost 10 years after Carpenter......
