On Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, Secretary of the Navy Carlos del Toro, Rear Adm. Darin Via, the Navy Surgeon General, Governor of Maryland Wes Moore, Mrs. Dawn Moore, the first lady of Maryland and Capt. Melissa Austin, Commanding Officer, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, took part in a...

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (Feb. 16, 2024) – Some skill sets are too important to lose, that’s why round-robin training is held quarterly at U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay.Director of Expeditionary Medicine and Department Head of Staff Education and Training (SEAT), Cdr. Alexis McDermott, coordinated...

SAN DIEGO – Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Military Manpower and Personnel Ms. Lisa Truesdale visited Naval Medical Center San Diego, Feb. 14, to meet with staff who manage and support the Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES) process at the medical center.Truesdale is...

As if the annual cold and flu season isn’t taking the breath away of many across the U.S., there’s another highly contagious respiratory virus out there dotting the landscape.Once considered eradicated, measles is now escalating.Like the public health experts at the national, state, and local...

YOKOSUKA, Japan – Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Andres Santamaria, assigned to Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54), was recognized with the Surface Force Independent Duty Corpsman (IDC) of the Year Award, Feb. 2.IDCs are hospital corpsmen who have undergone...

Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) played host to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro yesterday onboard the ship in San Diego.Del Toro toured the ship and spoke with senior members of the crew including Capt. Peter Nolan, Mercy’s civilian master, and Capt. Jeffery...

ROTA, Spain – Sailors from the U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC) Rota continued their integration of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) curriculum into their physical fitness training regimen.Led by Lt. Cmdr. Charlene Brew, the staff and education training officer, and...

LEMOORE, Calif. (Feb. 15, 2024) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class ReiCharles Quioco from Cavite, Philippines provides care in the public health directorate at Naval Health Clinic Lemoore. He graduated high school in 2009 and joined the Navy in 2013.Quioco is the leading petty officer and takes care of all...

Sgt. Sharmita Cuffie, a native of Lawrenceville, Georgia, received a command coin from Capt. Matthew Marcinkiewicz, commanding officer of Naval Medical Readiness Logistics Command (NMRLC), for being given an ‘outstanding’ during the command uniform inspection.Cuffie, a 2013 graduate of Central...

The namesake of Navy Medicine Readiness Training Unit Everett’s clinic has a gravitational pull readily visible to every staff, patient and visitor who enters onto the quarterdeck of the military treatment facility.Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro was drawn to the hallowed remembrance of...