14 March 2025 Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune officer named 'Occupational Therapy Officer of the Year' Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune is celebrating the recognition of one of its providers as Occupational Therapy Officer of the Year for the United States Navy.Lieutenant Jeff Bazanele was announced earlier this year as the recipient of the honor for 2024. Bazanele, a native...
14 March 2025 Mission: Lifesaver – The U.S. Military’s Accelerated Paramedic Training Program SPRING LAKE, N.C. – Amidst the chaos of battle on distant shores, a Marine goes down—“DOC!” echoes across the field, and a Navy Corpsman pushes forward before the word even finishes tearing itself from their lungs. Aboard a warship, alarms blare as a medical team work to stabilize an injured Sailor,...
13 March 2025 Dr. John Simecek awarded Civilian Service Commendation Medal at NAMRU San Antonio JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (March 13, 2025) – Dr. John Simecek, director, Craniofacial Health and Restorative Medicine (CHRM), was awarded the Civilian Service Commendation Medal by Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio Commanding Officer Capt. Jennifer Buechel, Nurse Corps,...
13 March 2025 Personal Determination Leads Civilian Employee to 35 Years at Naval Hospital Jacksonville “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed” (Washington, 1901, p. 217).As the most senior and final remaining civilian galley employee at Naval Hospital (NH) Jacksonville, Michael Jennings,...
13 March 2025 Pulmonary, Critical Care Physician earns Junior Officer of the Year Honors at NAMRU San Antonio JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (March 13, 2025) – Lt. Cmdr. Jeffrey Biberston, Medical Corps, of Casper, Wyo., department head, Expeditionary and Trauma Medicine (ExTrMed), was recently selected as Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio’s Junior Officer of the Year for 2024.The...
13 March 2025 EMF 150 Alpha conducts Command Master Chief Change of Charge On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Alpha conducted a change of charge ceremony aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.Master Chief Petty Officer Mario L. Lyons was relieved by Master Chief Petty Officer Robert E. Flowers as the EMF command master chief in an indoor...
13 March 2025 Special Operations Medics Enhance Arctic Lethality FAIRBANKS, Ak. – (Feb. 18, 2025) A thick blanket of white snow covered the environment as clear directions rang out in the cold, with the breath from the medic’s mouth forming frost on his eyelashes in temperatures well below zero degrees. The pounding rhythm of a Black Hawk helicopter thumped...
12 March 2025 All paws on deck! U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay begins American Red Cross Animal Visitation Program GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba - Tongues – and tails – were wagging at U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay as news traveled down the halls one paw at a time; it was official, the American Red Cross Animal Visitation Program kicked off, Jan. 22, 2025.The inaugural visit began in the command suite boardroom...
12 March 2025 NMRTC Jax, EMF-M trains HSM-50 in medical ops The Navy is looking at the future of warfare and with solutions of how to treat wounded are being explored. Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 50 stationed at Naval Station (NS) Mayport recently received casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) training from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command...
12 March 2025 A Corpsman and Canine Connection for Operational Readiness There was a heightened sense – and scent – of collaborative operational readiness training for U.S. Navy and U.S. Army personnel recently.Navy hospital corpsmen, along with Navy Medical Corps, Medical Service Corps and Nurse Corps officers assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness Training Unit Bangor,...