21 November 2023 Naval Health Clinic Lemoore directly provides vaccines to the warfighter Naval Health Clinic Lemoore (NHCL) and the Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9 medical team provided typhoid and seasonal influenza shots in a mass vaccination effort called a shot exercise or SHOTEX held on Nov. 8 and 9, 2023 along the flightline at Naval Air Station Lemoore’s (NAS) Hangar 3.“The tremendous...
21 November 2023 Recruit Training Command volunteers turn out for ASBP Blood Drive Recruit Training Command (RTC) volunteers provided a lifeline to the front lines during the RTC Blood Drive Nov. 15...
21 November 2023 First Ever Gator Dawn Field Exchange Spotlights Navy Partnerships with African Militaries The Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE) successfully launched its very first Gator Dawn: a preventive medicine field exchange with participation from the armed forces of Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya. The event took place at NECE’s main facility on Naval Air Station Jacksonville (NASJAX),...
18 November 2023 USNS Mercy’s visit to Solomon Islands marks 2nd stop of Pacific Partnership 24-1 Pacific Partnership has returned to the Solomon Islands to continue the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific region, Nov. 18.The arrival of Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) to...
17 November 2023 Butting out with Cold Turkey Trot for the Great American Smoke Out It was a designated date to ruffle the feathers of smokers to butt out.Even just for the day.It was 46 years ago that the American Cancer Association inaugurated the nationwide Great American Smoke Out to encourage Americans to quit smoking. The event is held on the third Thursday of November every...
17 November 2023 Storie’s Stories: USS Gerald R. Ford’s Pharmacy Technician “Here, you aren’t just providing a service, you are helping people on their worst day,” said Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Austin Storie, from Pacific, Missouri, the pharmacy technician for the world’s largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78). “[If] they feel like garbage, or they’re sick,...
17 November 2023 NMCSD celebrates Perioperative Nurses Week Naval Medical Center San Diego celebrates Perioperative Nurses Week by acknowledging the amazing work our outstanding nurses continually provide to our patients.Perioperative nurses play an integral role in the operating room making sure logistics are cared for and provide much needed assistance to...
17 November 2023 Naval Hospital Bremerton staff hone skills in mass casualty training drill Following a challenging exercise to test Naval Hospital Bremerton staff response to an active shooter, they were again immersed in a training environment to handle the consequences wrought by the armed intruder.A mass casualty drill dubbed Operation Gray Dawn held Nov. 14, 2023, helped to identify...
17 November 2023 Pacific Partnership-24 sees Sailors helping Ebeye residents “This is incredible,” said U.S. Navy Cmdr. Mary Beth Linnell, an optometrist from the USNS Mercy docked in Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands. “This is the whole reason that I decided to stay in the Navy after my initial three-year obligation. This is what I always hoped to do.”Linnell and her...
16 November 2023 United States Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Unit (USNMRTU) Diego Garcia opens new dental clinic with a ribbon cutting ceremony DIEGO GARCIA, British Indian Ocean Territory—On November 15 United States Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTU) Yokosuka and the island of Diego Garcia celebrated a significant achievement with the completion and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Navy Medicine Readiness and Training...