Here's a handy little guide to do-it-yourself dentistry:
http://www.hesperian.org/publication...ad_dentist.php
The U.S. Army has deployable dental teams. They are set up for dental emergency care, mostly combat related (not routine care), as was relayed to an evaluator from the Army Center for Lessons Learned by a pissed-off dentist as he was (roughly) performing routine care on me.
And a buddy of mine was deployed as part of the Swedish Army. She was a dental student at the time, has since graduated and also been commissioned as a 2LT in the Swedish Army. Infantry - the Swedish Army currently has ONE dentist, responsible for developing standards for entry into service and overseeing dental service contracts (for routine care of soldiers and forensic dentistry- ID'ing bodies from their dental records).
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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