Saudi trainee doctors in Canada allowed to stay longer
Five Canadian universities said that Saudi trainee doctors enrolled in their programs had been granted an extra three weeks in the country.
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In long Afghan war, U.S. Army tries new way to deploy trainers
FORT BENNING: As a U.S. Army medic, Sergeant First Class Jonathan Ortega admits that when he gets to Afghanistan, his instinct will be to help care for any wounded Afghan troops. It is a feeling he will have to fight.
Ortega is heading soon to the 16-year-old war as part of a new kind of U.S. Army training brigade specifically created to mentor Afghan soldiers in the field and taught to resist taking over missions, even in the event of a Taliban attack.
“It would be hard for me,” acknowledged Ortega, 30, who treated…