Vol. 3 -- # 14

   After Dinner Remarks
  Industrial War College
Dining-In at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
     March 15.1983

A "Dining-In" is a long-standing tradition with the Army, Navy, Air Force, and perhaps
at times in the United States Marines, the Coast Guard, and the Public Health Service. It
is usually an evening of frivolity, some roasting, some poking fun, and sometimes even
going to the extreme of having certain select diners drink from a punch-bowl in which
their maybe floating a few dead fish. The Dining-In for the Industrial War College was a
little less frivolous, and after some humorous remarks, I moved into a formal
presentation.

At the Industrial War College the activities of the Armed Forces is ever so much better
understood than that of the unarmed Uniformed Commission Corps of the Public Health
Service, and this lecture was one attempting to bring the Armed Forces up-to-date on
what the Public Health Service was, its budget, as well as a number of changes that were
taking place in the function of the Public Health Service in the United States.

This lecture is an excellent analysis for the State of Affairs with the Public Health Service
viz or viz, Reagan Administration in March of 1983.
                   Block grants

Care of protected populations
Public health service changes
   Apportionment of responsibility of
        Health

Composition of American
   population

The perception of disease &
   disability

   Perceptions of costs of healthcare
    Priorities for research
Public health service hospitals
Statistics - financial & diagnostic

John Adams
National Institutes of Health
Office of Assistant Secretary of Health