The Pentagon is conducting its first survey in more than 30 years specifically focused on the reproductive health of female service members, according to an Aug. 4 release from the Military Health System Communications Office. It begins this month.

The Department of Defense Active Duty Women’s Reproductive Health Survey will assess the behaviors and experiences of active-duty female service members, which can affect military readiness, and help clinicians learn about women’s gynecologic and obstetrical care needs. Collecting current data on women’s health issues will help shape policy and access to care, the release adds.

The survey will focus on women’s experiences with military health care, as well as their needs and preferences for family planning and contraception, said Kimberly Lahm, program director for Patient Advocacy & Experience, Women’s, Child & Family Health Policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.

“Participants have a great opportunity to provide feedback to help the military identify policies and practices that best meet their needs,” she added.

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The Associated Press | By The Associated Press
NORFOLK, Neb. — A bomb squad and military experts had to be called to a northeastern Nebraska museum after live military ordnance — including a World War II grenade and two artillery shells — were found in a museum storeroom, officials said.

The staff at the Elkhorn Valley Museum in Norfolk discovered the grenade, ammunition and ordnance on Wednesday, shut down the museum and called Norfolk police, the Norfolk Daily News reported.

Local officers were unable to determine if the vintage ordnance was live and called the Nebraska State Patrol bomb squad. The bomb squad determined that some of the items were live, and called the Nebraska Air National Guard explosive ordnance disposal team to help, which removed all of the live items.

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FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — The Army is now running its Soldier Integration Facility, a kind of crossroads between the high-tech conceptual ways in which scientists go after warfighting problems and the different programs that actually build gear.

Much like a race car garage, where mechanics might pull down high-engineering ideas to continually tweak cars for test runs and races, those running the SIF want to see it testing ideas in the virtual world and then making physical versions of gear that can be handled.

Those items would then continue in development by the larger programs that get gear built in quantity.

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Thanks to your financial support, WP-ORG’s abbreviated semi-annual fund drive has completed with full funding. WP-ORG continues to operate year after year through your donations, combined with an army of dedicated volunteers including advisors, moderators and many others. 
I would like to give special thanks to the Class of ’64 which donated over $8,000.   

Any additional donations received will accrue to Fund Drive 48. The final donation report may be seen at: https://secure.west-point.org/donate/report/
In addition to donation reports, we archive fund drive daily tallies, charts and tables comparing performance measures of current and past drives, and additional data which you may find of interest:  https://www.west-point.org/service/fd47/

Fund Drive 47 was delayed due to the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus. Its budget was intended to fund WP-ORG operations April – September 2020. Though we stretched our dollars going into lockdown, we hope to return to our typical Spring/Fall semi-annual fund drive schedule as soon as possible. To that end, our next fund drive will begin in October, as is typical, with the hope that the pandemic situation – and its economic repercussions – has improved.
May you remain healthy and whole in this season of change.   

Thank You Again!!!

Cameron Price
USMA ’96, on behalf of WP-ORG Advisors