ARLINGTON, Va. – Lt. Cmdr. Robert Hontz, a microbiologist with Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU)-2, participated in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Service Chiefs’ Fellowship Program (SCFP) from Sept. 20 – Dec. 16, 2022.Fellowship participants shadowed program managers,...

Historical anniversaries offer us an opportunity to gain perspective on the present, see where we came from, and a chance to memorialize the trailblazers who paved the way for us all. This year the Navy Medical Department will mark several notable anniversaries that provide us ample reason to look...

CAMP LEJEUNE, NC – Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune welcomed its first baby of the new year. Rowan Joseph Acevedo Kouris was welcomed into the world at 10:15 a.m. on January 2, 2023 by his proud parents, Sergeant James Kouris and Trisha Acevedo. Baby Rowan weighed 8 pounds, one ounce and measured...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Dec. 29, 2022) – Dr. Yoon Hwang, of Seoul, South Korea, a research microbiologist, assigned to the Craniofacial Health and Restorative Medicine Directorate, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, was recognized by Commanding Officer Capt. Gerald...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Dec. 29, 2022) – Alfredo Gonzalez, of El Paso, Texas, a financial management analyst assigned to the Resource Management and Acquisitions Directorate, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, was recognized by Commanding Officer Capt. Gerald DeLong...

“Healthy Dreams”From Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Brent Pyfrom/All Hands MagazineLet’s talk about sleep. Did you know that 30% of American adults sleep less than seven hours per night? Or, that humans spend an average of six years of their life dreaming? These two facts are according to...

(Dec. 21, 2022) Norfolk, Va. — A Canadian medical team embedded with Military SealiftCommand hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived at Naval Station Norfolk following a scheduled deployment to U.S. Southern Command and U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations in support of Continuing Promise 2022,...

Hospital Corpsman (HM) 2nd Class Haley Acevedo, assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Rota, is the work center supervisor for the operations management department (OMD) under the directorate for administrations. She supervises three Sailors, advises and provide...

Resolutely standing its post at Naval Station (NAVSTA) Rota, Spain, Navy Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit (NEPMU) 7 provides theatre-wide preventive medicine support to Navy and Marine Corps forces, joint and combined military operations, and allied governments when directed including...

Across the U.S. Navy many service personnel speak of having two families. There is the personal family—the people who you are bonded to through blood ties and marriage. And then, of course, there is the “Navy Family”—those shipmates you work besides, united through shared mission and career...