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«NutritionNOTES»
COOKIES ANNOUNCE THE HOLIDAYS, and dessert is an expected part of every holiday meal. Unfortunately, desserts typically are the least healthy part of a meal, with high amounts of calories, sugar, refined carbohydrates, and fat. This holiday season, choose a few nutritionally balanced cookies or modify your desserts a bit to reduce the guilt.
On your pies, try a crumb topping with oatmeal, a whole grain, in lieu of a traditional processed flour-and-butter pastry crust. Another alternative is using only a top crust — especially a lattice one.
Cake-like cookies have less fat than crisp, butter types. Incorporate dried fruits (like those found in fruitcake) and oatmeal for an extra nutrient boost.
— Rear Adm. Joyce Johnson, USPHS (Ret), D.O., provides holiday dessert recipes, tips, and more information at
www.moaa.org/nutrition.
TRICAREUPDA+E
TRICARE BENEFICIARIES HAVE NEW PHARMACY OPTIONS available and accessible in the palms of their hands. Express Script’s mobile application lets beneficiaries use their smartphones to safely and securely manage their TRICARE pharmacy benefits.
The app includes medication reminders and an account registration tool. The reminder feature gives beneficiaries the option to set up daily alerts to make sure they take their medications as prescribed and don’t skip a dose. The account registration feature lets beneficiaries create accounts on their smartphones.
Download the app for free at
www.express-scripts.com/mobile or use a service like the Apple App Store or Android Marketplace. A mobile-optimized pharmacy website is accessible at
http://m.esrx.com.
In Review
Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army’s Victory That Shaped World War II. By Stuart D. Goldman. Naval Institute Press, 2012. $31.95. ISBN 978-1-59114-329.
The bloody Battle of Nomonhan (also called Khalkhin Gol), between Russian and Japanese forces in Manchuria in 1939, “was the most important World War II battle that most people never heard of,” says historian Stuart Goldman.
Nomonhan was also “the first instance in the modern age of limited war between great powers,” and Goldman convincingly claims it directly was related to the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact of 1939, which allowed Adolf Hitler to invade Poland and Joseph Stalin to successfully confront Japanese expansion in northeast Asia.
This is a brilliant battle study highlighting the military and political decisions, actions, and blunders. Goldman describes how a minor annoyance became a huge full-scale battle in a semiarid wasteland, with the Russians soundly defeating Japan’s arrogant Kwantung Army. The battle also revealed the doctrinal strength and superiority of Soviet military might led by Gen. Georgy Zhukov, the later hero of Moscow and Stalingrad.
True Faith and Allegiance: An American Paratrooper and the 1972 Battle for An Loc. By Mike McDermott. University of Alabama Press, 2012. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-8173-1755-3.
The Battle of An Loc from April to May 1972, during the Easter Offensive in South Vietnam, was a brutal “meat grinder,” pitting three veteran North Vietnamese Army divisions with tanks and artillery against a South Vietnamese airborne brigade and other infantry units defending a town battered into rubble.
Col. Mike McDermott, USA (Ret), American advisor to a South Vietnamese airborne battalion during that desperate fight, describes the savage, no-quarter combat that lasted weeks. His grim story praises the tactical skill and bravery of both sides, as well as his own pre-carious survival and expert proficiency in coordinating close-air support and B-52 bombing missions.
— William D. Bushnell
26 MILITARY OFFICER DECEMBER 2012
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