03 May 2024 Navy beats Army in annual Best Warrior Competition JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO – Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Michael O’Connell took first place in the noncommissioned officer category at this year’s U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School Best Warrior Competition held at Camp Mackall, North Carolina, April 2024.O’Connell, a special...
02 May 2024 HMCM Palacios: Balance for Success Serving in the military is an experience which encourages and enhances enlightenment, courage, growth and versatility. It is a space where individuality can see to be suppressed. Finding that balance, can be an everyday challenge, but when mastered, can make a person’s life so much more...
02 May 2024 U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa and Educational & Developmental Intervention Services (EDIS) Know: It Takes a Village Okinawa, Japan Friday, 26 April, EDIS held a developmental screening event on Camp Kinser. Educational and Developmental Intervention Services is a department of the U.S. Naval Hospital that provides services to children with special needs, independently or in conjunction with Department of Defense...
01 May 2024 Naval Medical Center Portsmouth Celebrates Charette Building 25th Anniversary PORTSMOUTH, Va. (April 30, 2024) Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) hosted the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Charette Health Care Center, or Building 2, April 30.The center is located between historic Building 1, built in 1830, and Building 3 (previously named Building 215) that opened in...
01 May 2024 Cherry Point Clinic Celebrates Sailors of the Quarter Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point celebrated the accomplishments and service of Sailors serving aboard the facility Tuesday, April 30 during a luncheon held at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point’s Hancock Marina.Honored with of the Quarter awards were Hospital Corpsman Third Class Miguel Rodriguez...
30 April 2024 Navy Expeditionary Medical Unit completes seven-month deployment supporting Middle East operations Expeditionary Medical Unit 10 Gulf (EMU 10G) recently concluded a vital seven-month deployment in support of Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) in the Middle East.The 31 personnel from EMU 10G returned from their deployment in Iraq April 26, 2024. This deployment marked the first time in nearly a...
30 April 2024 Crewsin’ in 2024 Challenge a success at NMRTC Bremerton It was a friendly competition designed to individually motivate and collectively encourage. It was an event which once concluded involved almost 20 percent of the command who crunched their way through the Crews Into Shape Challenge at Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton.Whether...
30 April 2024 Civilian Corps Celebrates Leadership Transition and Seven Years of Service The Navy Medicine Civilian Corps marked a milestone today with a ceremony at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) celebrating its seventh anniversary and the changing of the guard at its helm.The event saw Mr. Mark Boman, the outgoing Director of the Civilian Corps, hand over the reins to Dr...
29 April 2024 NMRC Discusses Jobs in STEM at Weller Road Elementary School Career Day SILVER SPRING, Md. – Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC) participated in Weller Road Elementary School’s annual Career Day, held on April 19, to engage with students on jobs in STEM.Lt. Cmdr. Sarah Jenkins and Lt. Cameron Sayer, active-duty researchers with NMRC, spent the day discussing their...
29 April 2024 Oral Cancer Awareness Month: Converging Past and Present: The Evolution of Oral, Head, and Neck Cancer Management By U.S. Navy Capt. (Dr.) Jason BurkesWalter Reed National Military Medical CenterEditor’s note: U.S. Navy Capt. Jason Burkes is an oral maxillofacial surgeon at Walter Reed and assistant professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS).April is Oral Cancer...