NAVY MEDICINE READINESS AND TRAINING COMMAND PATUXENT RIVER, Md.– The highly specialized aviation and test missions at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River rely on a unique level of medical and scientific support, delivered directly by the Navy’s Medical Service Corps (MSC). Spanning 31 diverse...

PENSACOLA, Fla. – A Naval Hospital Pensacola Sailor is being recognized for his quick thinking and decisive actions that protected a child wandering near Interstate 10 in September 2025.Blake Molinaro, a behavioral health technician, was driving with his wife when they noticed a child alone near the...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — On May 2, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa—one of the largest amphibious assaults and deadliest battles of World War II—a young Navy hospital corpsman charged across an exposed battlefield under heavy fire to save a wounded Marine.By the end of the day, Hospital...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - At the Naval Expeditionary Medicine Warfighter Development Center (NEMWDC), a steady cycle of high-fidelity training serves as the bedrock of readiness for Navy Medicine. Each month, the center puts multiple specialized medical teams through their paces, ensuring a...

When Naval Hospital Bremerton leadership consented to address a local professional organization April 24, 2026, the requested caveat was to include a handful of topics tailored specifically for the primarily retiree attendees.After Capt. Karla Lepore, Naval Hospital Bremerton director and Navy...

YOKOSUKA, Japan (March 9, 2026) — U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka is increasing access to elective facial plastic and reconstructive procedures, offering beneficiaries specialized care while maintaining medical readiness in the Indo-Pacific region.Among the procedures performed is functional...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO – FORT SAM HOUSTON – (May 30, 2026) – During the month of April, research engineers assigned to the Combat Casualty Care & Operational Medicine Directorate, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, visited with dental and veterinary science instructors to test the...

SAN DIEGO– The Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) provided its lab facilities and personnel to support a NASA study from the Artemis II mission on April 11, 2026.Following the splashdown and recovery of the Orion spacecraft on April 10, a team of NASA, Harvard and Space Tango scientists and...

Three sailors serving aboard Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point were recently selected as Sailors of the Quarter.The honorees are Hospitalman Alyson Cuff, Bluejacket of the Quarter; Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Naleni Castillo, Junior Sailor of the Quarter; and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Emmanuella...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa, Japan — The wardroom from U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa (USNHO) held a professional military education (PME) event to observe the start of the Battle of Okinawa.In a quote from then-Secretary of Defense and retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, in theSummary of the 2018...