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Guarantor: MAJ Richard W. Pope, MC USA

Contributors: CPT James T. Schumacher, Jr., SC USA*; MAJ Joseph F. Creedon, SC USA$; MAJ Richard W. Pope, MC USAt

*B CO, 261 st ASMB (ABN), Fort Bragg, NC.

^ Orthopedic Surgery Service, Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, GA 30905.

^^ U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, MA 01760. The views expressed are solely those of the authors and do not represent those of the U.S. Army or the Department of Defense.