Doesn’t surprise me. U.S. Army has long had an interest in tropical medicine. Dates back at least to WW2 and Stillwell in Burma. When I was in Panama there was a research group there unpacking and researching things Stillwell’s medical staff had collected 50 years earlier.
Thanks for the info.
Added bonus: once he got there, he told the base commander that to forgive him for not introducing himself beforehand as his ministry was just down the road. The base commander says “Oh we know who you are father”
priest: “That’s odd as I dont remember coming here before”
base commander: “we know everything that goes on 1000 miles around”.
He then offered the GI’s Sunday mass which they went to religiously afterwards.
Dates back to the Spanish American war and William Gorgas and Walter Reed. Gorgas later worked in the Canal Zone.
Years ago, I caught a staph infection in Yemen. Darned near killed me, kept feeding me all kinds of meds for about 3 years, very little help. Then gave me a new family of sulpha meds, immediate relief, full recovery about a year later.
Yet my Dad had skin lesions from WW2, Pac. theater for the rest of his life, no cure.