WASHINGTON, D.C. – On behalf of the Department of Defense, Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) presented the Spirit of Hope Award to a Sussex, New Jersey, native who dedicated service to caregivers of the Navy’s wounded, ill and injured, during a ceremony at Washington Navy Yard, Oct...

On November 17, 2021, Naval Medical Center camp Lejeune administered the first doses of the pediatric COVID-19 vaccine. NMCCL offers the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for eligible, pediatric TRICARE beneficiaries ages 5-11 years old.According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the vaccine...

GULF OF OMAN (Nov. 19, 2021) – While underway in the Gulf of Oman conducting operations, the medical team aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52 conducted sophisticated tactical combat casualty care training.The team used volunteers as simulated casualties and practiced the...

In the early morning of March 19, 1969, a Marine combat base at Phu Loc 6 near An Hoa, Vietnam, became the scene of a surprise enemy attack. As the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) infiltrated the camp’s barbed wire perimeter, a 24-year old corpsman named Bobby Ray charged into the melee to render...

In time honored tradition, a name change like no other took place at Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Bremerton, November 19, 2021.Chief Hospital Corpsman Benjamin R. Chapin, Chief Personnel Specialist Chia W. Hu, Chief Hospital Corpsman Julius M. Ramirez and Chief Yeoman Zakeyia...

For those who wish to make the commit to quit, Naval Hospital Bremerton’s (NHB) tobacco cessation counselor can help them cut through any blown smoke to make it happen.Using the annual Great American Smokeout as a reference and starting point, Pat Graves offers encouragement for any and all tobacco...

The president’s cabinet is convening this morning, but you will not find them in any boardroom or oval office. This is 1929 and the president is on the south lawn of the White House immersed in a new morning ritual that the press has dubbed “Hoover Ball.”Starched shirts and polished shoes have been...

Generating a medically ready force means identifying gaps in care and filling those needs; one of those gaps being the sexual health of active duty personnel.Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune’s Department of Public Health has made strides in the past several years to care for the sexual health of...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (Nov. 17, 2021) – Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) welcomed Operation PEACE (Peer Empowerment and Community Engagement), headed by Miss District of Columbia, Ensign Andolyn Medina, Nov. 17.Medina, event founder, stopped by the NMCP Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and...

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Courtney Saint has been on the receiving end of a few expressive comments of late.Feedback from patient, staff and community has been favorable towards Saint since October 16, 2021, to help handle the influx of COVID-19 patients at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane,...