Navy dental professionals are expanding patient care capabilities through advanced digital dentistry while ensuring Sailors receive the hands-on training necessary to sustain these capabilities for the Fleet and contingent environments.Lt. Cmdr. Elizabeth Joseph, assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness...

Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) New England launched its first iteration of command physical training, marking a renewed focus on readiness, resilience, and unit cohesion among military staff, August 20, 2026.“Fitness is not a requirement, it is a commitment to yourself, your...

AGANA HEIGHTS, Guam — After more than four decades of dedicated service to military medicine in the Pacific region, Mr. James Terlaje, the environmental program manager at U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Guam, was honored by leadership July 10, 2026 ahead of his upcoming retirement.Defense Health Agency...

Great Lakes, Ill. - In a day marked by two milestones, Lt. Cmdr. Robert Johnson, Medical Officer Programs and Scholarships officer assigned to Navy Talent Acquisition Group Great Lakes, commissioned two newly selected officers into the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps.Ensign Carina Alers and Ensign Itzel...

By 8 a.m., the pediatric department at Naval Hospital (NH) Jacksonville is already running on its usual rhythm while four Sailors moved through it carrying more than their duty assignments.None of them had planned to be pregnant at the same time. It had simply happened — four women, one department,...

It is 1976. You are aboard the Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier USSAmerica(CV 66), slicing through the Mediterranean during high-stakes fleet exercises, when disaster strikes: a heavy wrench falls deep into the ship's massive turbine, completely disabling the vessel.Who do you call in this...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms recognized Hospitalman Hanna Parkos as Blue Jacket of the 3rd Quarter, highlighting her contributions to occupational health, patient care and operational readiness.Parkos works in the occupational...

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Matthew Case, acting surgeon general of the Navy and acting chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, joined more than 80 Sailors in Billings, Montana, to kick off the city’s first-ever Navy Week, Aug. 20-22.The 3-day visit was part of a Navy Office of Community Outreach...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — A farewell dinner for a Navy hospital corpsman turned into a real-world emergency response Aug. 21 when 10 hospital corpsmen and several Marines rushed to the scene of a house explosion in Twentynine Palms, helping move an injured man away from the damaged home, evacuate...

Ensuring warfighters are medically ready to deploy across the vast Pacific region requires more than routine care. It demands a culture that constantly finds ways to do our operational processes better. That drive to improve was the focus of the 2026 Naval Medical Forces Pacific Continuous Process...