08 July 2026 Navy Medicine Master-at-Arms strengthen expeditionary readiness through Combat Skills Training SUFFOLK, Va. — Two Master-at-Arms assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms completed Combat Skills Training (CST) on June 12 in Suffolk, Virginia. The weeklong course for Expeditionary Medicine (ExMed) Sailors, standardized by Naval Medical Forces Pacific and...
08 July 2026 Zimble’s Rubber Chicken: An Overlooked Symbol in a Navy Surgeon General’s Portrait Prominently displayed in the executive conference room at the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia, is a portrait of Vice Adm. James Zimble, the Navy Surgeon General from 1987 to 1991. At first glance, you may not see anything unusual in the oil...
07 July 2026 NMRTC Bremerton Corpsman Cup Kicks Off Summer with Tactical Medical Competition BREMERTON, Wash. – Navy Hospital Corpsmen are routinely expected to provide life-saving medical care in high-stress operational and emergency environments – scenarios that demand rapid decision-making, seamless teamwork, and decisive leadership. However, tactical medical and expeditionary skills can...
07 July 2026 Defense Health Agency Senior Enlisted Leader visits Cherry Point Clinic Navy Force Master Chief PatrickPaul “PaP” C. Mangaran, command senior enlisted leader for the Defense Health Agency, visited Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point on Friday, June 26, 2026. Mangaran toured NHCCP for an update on latest development to facilities for patients and staff. NHCCP serves as the...
06 July 2026 NAMRU EURAFCENT Welcomes New Command Senior Enlisted Leader NAVAL AIR STATION SIGONELLA, Italy - Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) EURAFCENT welcomed Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman Essozimna Andjo as its new command senior enlisted leader (CSEL) on June 17.Andjo, who brings more than two decades of operational and medical experience to the command, is...
02 July 2026 Navy physicians, interns graduate from Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune’s residency and fellowship programs CAMP LEJEUNE, NC – Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune graduates its newest class of family medicine residents, interns, and sports medicine fellows into the military medicine ranks. The Graduate Medical Education Directorate of the medical center (NMCCL) hosted the ceremony on June 30, 2026, at...