17 March 2023 U.S. Navy Corpsman Earns Challenging Expert Field Medical Badge, takes “Top Doc” Bethesda, Maryland (Mar. 17, 2023) – Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Weston Moore, assigned to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), earned the U.S. Army Expert Field Medical Badge (EFMB) and earned “Top Doc” by finishing with the highest score.The EFMB is a special skill award that
17 March 2023 Making WAVES: Remembering the First Women of the Hospital Corps As the bus arrived in Bethesda, Md., on a summer afternoon in 1945, Frona Liston could not have been more excited. The 20-year old from North Canton, Ohio, had just graduated from basic training at Hunter College, N.Y., and was now about to begin Hospital Corps School at the National Naval Medical
17 March 2023 Operation Iraqi Freedom – two decades after from Naval Hospital Bremerton They were there - slogged and sutured - at the very beginning.They were also there during the surgeries and surges in the battle-scarred years to follow.At the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom, March 20, 2003, to the final days of Operation New Dawn in 2011, Naval Hospital Bremerton staff members
16 March 2023 USS Boxer Hosts Integrated Medical Training Amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) hosted an integrated casualty receiving treatment ship (CRTS) exercise with medical personnel assigned to Boxer, Fleet Surgical Team (FST) 5 and Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command San Diego (NMRTCSD), March 8-10.The exercise simulated real-world
16 March 2023 NMFP augments Casualty Receiving Treatment Ship, enhances capabilities Members of various commands and amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) medical department participated in a medical exercise implementing a Casualty Receiving Treatment Ship (CRTS) mission aboard Boxer at Naval Base San Diego, California, March 6-10.
16 March 2023 Independent Duty Corpsman: A Department of One PACIFIC OCEAN (March 14, 2023) – Assuming duties typically reserved for a chief petty officer and tending to a crew of more than 100 is an intimidating prospect to many Sailors. However, Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Seo Song does exactly that every day aboard Independence-variant littoral combat ship