Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

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Group.png Bureau of Medicine and Surgery  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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Parent organizationUS/Navy
LeaderSurgeon General of the United States Navy
TypeMDMA.jpg Medical
Subgroups•  Naval Medical Research Center
•  Navy Medicine Education and Training Command
•  Navy Medicine East
•  Navy Medicine West
•  Naval Medical Logistics Command
•  Navy Medicine Information Systems Support Activity
•  Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center
Staff63,000
An agency of the United States Department of the Navy that manages "health care" activities for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps.
A declassified Naval training video discusses the US Navy's biological and chemical warfare experiments in the early 1950s.

An agency of the United States Department of the Navy that manages "health care" activities for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps.

Naval Medical Research Center

Full article: Stub class article Naval Medical Research Center

The NMRI was the first organisation to research LSD for the purposes of "mind control". Their 1947 Project CHATTER was directed by Lieutenant Charles Savage, under Dr. Theodor Benzinger.[1]

NAMRU-2

Full article: NAMRU-2

In 2010, the Naval Medical Research Unit 2 stopped its activities in Indonesia after public focus on its biological warfare research.


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