U.S. Navy Surgeon General, Vice Adm. Matthew L. Nathan, speaks to an audience of more than 1,000 military and civilian health care professionals at the Tri-Service Medical Information Management Symposium 2012.

Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Vinson Ilog shows a Vietnamese woman new stretches during a Pacific Partnership 2012 medical civic action project.

Yeoman 2nd Class Warren Ewing and Sonar Technician (Surface) Seaman Kelly Souva, both assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85), respond to a simulated medical casualty during a general quarters drill at sea.

Volunteer dental personnel from Naval Medical Center San Diego, Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton and Smile Art Dentistry extract a tooth from veteran Julian Morales during the Veteran's Village Stand Down.

Left, Hospital Corpsman Abel Leon explains to Marines of Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st MEU, where to administer a pressure dressing during basic first aid training aboard the forward-deployed amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42).