03 April 2019 Navy Surgeon General testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Editor?s note: Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy?surgeon general and chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, provided?the following opening remarks to?the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense, during a hearing April ...
25 March 2019 A Hero?s Image: Dr. Al Mateczun and the Medal of Honor Photograph Dr. Mateczun's aerial photograph of Lt. Col. Jackson's Medal ofHonor action, May 12 1968. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Air Force)...
22 March 2019 Apollo Swap: One of Navy Medicine's Favorite Furry Shipmates 1808310-N-PG340-042 PORTSMOUTH, Va. (August 10, 2018) Rear Adm. Anne Swap, Navy Medicine East (NME) commander, and Apollo Swap, a certified service dog who has been repurposed as a facility dog for NME. Navy Medicine East oversees the delivery of me...
19 March 2019 A Navy Nurse?s Reflections on Pacific Partnership 2018 180317-N-RM689-0482PACIFIC OCEAN (March 16, 2018) Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) transits the waters near Guam en route for Pacific Partnership 2018 (PP18). PP18?s mission is to work collectively with host and partner n...
19 March 2019 I am Navy Medicine, Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Ronald Laganzon My name is Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Ronald Laganzon. I often tell people ?I may have only been active duty for 17 years, but I?ve been in the Navy my whole life.? My interest in the Navy began at an early age, because I was born at Naval Hospit...
12 March 2019 Vice Adm. Forrest Faison Meets with Staff at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general and chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, made his way to Bethesda, MD, March 7, 2019, to visit Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC). Faison last visited WRNMMC in January of ...
04 March 2019 FIVE NAVY MEDICINE MOMENTS IN FEBRUARY 2019 [PHOTOS] Twentynine Palms, Calif. (Feb. 8, 2019) -- A U.S. Navy corpsmen with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, Marine Air-Ground Task Force-6 (MAGTF-6) helps stage packs in preparation for an Air Assault Course (AAC) during Integrated Training Exercise (IT...
28 February 2019 A Message from the Navy Surgeon General: Celebrating 148 years of the Medical Corps 180417-N-UP035-0249 PUERTO BARRIOS, Guatemala (April 17, 2018) Lt. Cmdr. Jason Souza of Bolton, Massachusetts and Dr. Jonathan Maldonado of Guatemala, remove a plexiform neurofibroma from a patient's face at the Hospital de Puerto Barrios in Puerto B...
19 February 2019 Global Health Engagement in action: Trinidad and Tobago PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Aug. 22, 2018) U.S. Navy Lt. David Cruz, Southern Partnership Station 2018?s Fleet Health Engagement Team (FHET) officer-in-charge, speaks with a Trinidad and Tobago (TTO) military professional as part of functional exercise ...
04 February 2019 FIVE NAVY MEDICINE MOMENTS IN JANUARY 2019 [PHOTOS] BREMERTON, WA, UNITED STATES (Jan. 16, 2018) - Lt. Laura Diconza quizzes visiting hospital corpsmen on procedures to follow at the Neonatal Resuscitation Program display during Naval Hospital Bremerton?s Command Skills Fair held January 16 and 18, 20...