CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute (NEMTI) continues Operation Firebreak during the Navy Reserve-Expeditionary Medical Facility-Bethesda operational readiness evaluation on Jun 19-20.Operation Firebreak, sponsored and run by NEMTI, provides realistic training for...

After a two-year pandemic pause, Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton Hospital Corps ball was back in full festival fettle for their 124th birthday celebration.“It does seem like a long time to come together and congregate,” Capt. Patrick Fitzpatrick, Naval Hospital Bremerton director...

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – Active duty service members aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune will soon have closer options for their health care needs. Since 2013, the Defense Health Agency has worked closely with Navy and Marine Corps counterparts to visualize and build Marine Centered Medical Homes...

ATLANTIC OCEAN — The hospital corpsman (HM) rate was established 124 years ago and has been saving lives and maintaining the well-being of service members ever since.On June 17, 1898, President William McKinley signed a bill that established the U.S. Navy HM rate. Since the Spanish American War, HMs...

There’s 58 names affixed on Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Heroes Wall of Honor.Everyone is a Navy hospital corpsman who lost their life after 9/11.There are no medics listed, which is not in any way to disparage or lessen the tremendous care, compassion and courage of any U.S. Army combat medic or U.S...

BETHESDA, MD – Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Washington celebrated the completion of structural concrete on the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Addition and Alteration project during a topping out ceremony on Friday, July 10, in Bethesda Maryland.Leadership from...

SAN ANTONIO – (June 10, 2022) – U.S. Navy Lt. Rachel Robeck, of Atlanta, a medical researcher assigned to Combat Casualty Care and Operational Medicine, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, was awarded 1st place in the Commanders’ Awards for Original Medical Research and Quality...

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) hosted senior medical personnel across the Navy at a meeting of the Fleet Health Integration Panel (FHIP), Jun. 8-9.FHIP is a coordination forum for stakeholders in Navy Medicine, with members including fleet force surgeons, fleet senior...

Join us on 28 June 2022 at 1100 & 1400 EST, for this quarter’s ‘2021 Health of the Force’ webinar. The presentation will discuss the overall purpose and key findings from the 2021 Health of the Force, describe the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical metrics, and detail how installations can...

FORT HOOD, Texas – Rear Adm. Cynthia Kuehner, commander of Naval Medical Forces Support Command (NMFSC), and NMFSC Command Master Chief Jason Reynolds attended a distinguished visitor day held for a Joint Emergency Medical Exercise (JEMX) on June 8.The exercise ran from June 6-10 and included 2,000...