IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 309 
Commending Armed Forces medical personnel for their outstanding care 
of combat casualties. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 18, 2005 
Ms. BEAN (for herself, Mr. SKELTON, Mr. EVANS, Mr. MURTHA, Mr. SIM-
MONS, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. HINCHEY, Mrs. MCCARTHY, Mr. MCGOVERN, 
Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
SNYDER, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. REYES, Mr. ETHERIDGE, Mr. 
BUTTERFIELD, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. BOSWELL, 
Mr. SCHWARZ of Michigan, Mr. MILLER of North Carolina, Mrs. CAPPS, 
Mr. LANTOS, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi, 
Mr. TANNER, Mrs. TAUSCHER, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. HOYER, Mr. ISRAEL, 
Ms. HARMAN, Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. HOLDEN, Ms. 
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. HIGGINS, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. 
BURTON of Indiana, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. COOPER, Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. 
BROWN of Ohio, Mr. EMANUEL, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. WELDON of Pennsyl-
vania, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. ROTHMAN, Mr. DOYLE, Mr. PALLONE, 
Ms. HERSETH, Ms. SCHWARTZ of Pennsylvania, Mr. KIND, Mr. BOYD, 
Mr. CONYERS, Mr. FEENEY, Mr. SCHIFF, Ms. LINDA T. SA´NCHEZ of 
California, Mr. MATHESON, Mr. COSTELLO, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. CLEAVER, 
and Mr. BARROW) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which 
was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Commending Armed Forces medical personnel for their 
outstanding care of combat casualties. 
Whereas the Armed Forces have a distinguished history of 
providing excellent and prompt medical care to Ameri-
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cans wounded on the battlefield and have long been world 
leaders in emergency medicine and medical innovation; 
Whereas combat casualty care is provided by members of the 
Army, Navy, and Air Force, serving as corpsmen and 
medics on the frontlines; surgeons, nurses, and specialists 
aboard hospital ships and at forward surgical stations, 
combat support hospitals, and theater hospitals; crew-
members of transport aircraft; and staff at hospitals lo-
cated within the United States providing medical, thera-
peutic, and rehabilitative care; 
Whereas military medicine is an indispensable part of ensur-
ing military readiness by maintaining and, when nec-
essary, repairing the most important component of our 
military—the American service member; 
Whereas Armed Forces medical personnel contribute to the 
morale of members of the Armed Forces and their fami-
lies by ensuring that if members of the Armed Forces are 
injured or fall ill while they are deployed, they will receive 
the best medical care the United States can offer; 
Whereas more than 91 percent of casualties in Operation 
Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom have 
survived their wounds and fewer than 1.5 percent of 
wounded personnel have died after receiving some level of 
medical care—the best survival rates of any conflict in 
United States history; 
Whereas the combat casualty care provided by Armed Forces 
medical personnel has saved hundreds of lives in Iraq and 
Afghanistan through state-of-the-art technology, forward- 
deployed surgical units and hospitals, rapid patient-trans-
portation and aeromedical evacuation, and the skill and
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compassion of care providers serving on the frontlines 
and in hospitals at home; 
Whereas forward care is integrated with a responsive and 
specialized evacuation system that quickly transports pa-
tients to higher levels of care in the theater of operations, 
to facilities in Germany, and on to the United States, 
often within 48 hours of the injury; and 
Whereas Armed Forces medical personnel are as essential a 
component to United States defense and military success 
as those members of the Armed Forces who serve in com-
bat units: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) commends all current and former Armed 
Forces medical personnel for their service and dedi-
cation to the United States and their outstanding 
care of members of the Armed Forces who are in-
jured in combat; and 
(2) reaffirms its commitment to supporting 
Armed Forces medical personnel by providing the 
best training and equipment available, so that they 
can continue to provide the best possible care to 
members of the Armed Forces who are injured in 
combat. 
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