17 February 2024 Enhancing Medical Expertise: Quarterly Training Elevates Skill Proficiency GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (Feb. 16, 2024) – Some skill sets are too important to lose, that’s why round-robin training is held quarterly at U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay.Director of Expeditionary Medicine and Department Head of Staff Education and Training (SEAT), Cdr. Alexis McDermott, coordinated...
16 February 2024 Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Military Manpower and Personnel) Visits Naval Medical Center San Diego SAN DIEGO – Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Military Manpower and Personnel Ms. Lisa Truesdale visited Naval Medical Center San Diego, Feb. 14, to meet with staff who manage and support the Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES) process at the medical center.Truesdale is...
16 February 2024 Naval Hospital Bremerton keeping Military Families Safe from Measles As if the annual cold and flu season isn’t taking the breath away of many across the U.S., there’s another highly contagious respiratory virus out there dotting the landscape.Once considered eradicated, measles is now escalating.Like the public health experts at the national, state, and local...
16 February 2024 Curtis Wilbur Sailor Best Independent Duty Corpsman in Surface Navy YOKOSUKA, Japan – Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Andres Santamaria, assigned to Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54), was recognized with the Surface Force Independent Duty Corpsman (IDC) of the Year Award, Feb. 2.IDCs are hospital corpsmen who have undergone...
16 February 2024 Secretary of the Navy Visits MSC Hospital Ship USNS Mercy Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) played host to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro yesterday onboard the ship in San Diego.Del Toro toured the ship and spoke with senior members of the crew including Capt. Peter Nolan, Mercy’s civilian master, and Capt. Jeffery...
16 February 2024 Integrating Tactical Combat Casualty Care with Physical Fitness: Enhancing Military Medical Readiness ROTA, Spain – Sailors from the U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC) Rota continued their integration of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) curriculum into their physical fitness training regimen.Led by Lt. Cmdr. Charlene Brew, the staff and education training officer, and...
15 February 2024 Public health LPO shines as team player at NHC Lemoore LEMOORE, Calif. (Feb. 15, 2024) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class ReiCharles Quioco from Cavite, Philippines provides care in the public health directorate at Naval Health Clinic Lemoore. He graduated high school in 2009 and joined the Navy in 2013.Quioco is the leading petty officer and takes care of all...
15 February 2024 NORA Soldier Receives Coin from Commanding Officer Sgt. Sharmita Cuffie, a native of Lawrenceville, Georgia, received a command coin from Capt. Matthew Marcinkiewicz, commanding officer of Naval Medical Readiness Logistics Command (NMRLC), for being given an ‘outstanding’ during the command uniform inspection.Cuffie, a 2013 graduate of Central...
15 February 2024 SECNAV visits Branch Health Clinic Everett David R. Ray Clinic The namesake of Navy Medicine Readiness Training Unit Everett’s clinic has a gravitational pull readily visible to every staff, patient and visitor who enters onto the quarterdeck of the military treatment facility.Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro was drawn to the hallowed remembrance of...
13 February 2024 Forward Deployable Preventative Medical Unit Enhances Combat Effectiveness with Comprehensive Weapons and Threat Recognition Training This year, the Forward Deployable Preventative Medical Unit (FDPMU) participated in a first ever Weapons and Threat Recognition Training Course, specifically designed and tailored for the unit’s unique mission. FDPMU’s are rapidly, deployable, and mobile units that support force health protection,...