It’s dusk and you are alone in the forest. It’s been two hours since you were forced to eject from your aircraft, which turned into a fiery ball of metal after being hit by an enemysurface to air missile. You are shaken and lost, but still mobile. This is when your training and mental preparation...

The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) Supply department, comprised of approximately 150 Sailors, along with four Pacific Partnership 2024-1 mission supply personnel, medical team planners and civilian mariners, worked together to provide logistical support for Pacific Partnership, the largest...

SAN DIEGO – Personnel with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC) provided training on biological attack response and mitigation to Sailors aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) from January 24-25.The training provides shipboard medical laboratory technicians with biological warfare...

During some medical crises a healthcare professional may also end up being a patient at the facility that they serve at. For Naval Medical Center San Diego’s (NMCSD) Chief Hospital Corpsman Charlene Green, that is exactly what transpired for her during the recent holiday period.Green, who serves as...

By Bernard S. LittleWRNMMC Command CommunicationsNavy Capt. (Dr.) Thanh Hoang, program director for the National Capital Consortium (NCC) Endocrinology Fellowship and on staff at Walter Reed, recently spoke at the American Thyroid Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., discussing his noted...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Jan. 25, 2024) – “By experience, by performance, and by testing, you have been advanced to chief petty officer. In the United States Navy – and only in the United States Navy – the rank of E7 carries with it unique responsibilities and privileges you are...

Reserve Component Naval Medical Forces Atlantic (RC NMFL) held a 4-day annual leadership sync for 20 commands within the region that focused on Navy Medicine and Navy Reserve priorities on board Naval Support Activity (NSA) Hampton Roads-Portsmouth Annex, Jan. 18-21.Nearly 50 Navy Reserve Component...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Jan. 25, 2024) – Force Master Chief PatrickPaul Mangaran, director, Hospital Corps, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), joined by Master Chiefs Hospital Corpsman Hansen LaFoucade, deputy director, Hospital Corps and Leslie Giuy, lead hospital...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Jan. 24, 2024) – Force Master Chief PatrickPaul Mangaran, director, Hospital Corps, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), joined by Master Chiefs Hospital Corpsman Hansen LaFoucade, deputy director, Hospital Corps and Leslie Giuy, lead hospital...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Jan. 24, 2024) – Force Master Chief PatrickPaul Mangaran, director, Hospital Corps, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), joined by Master Chiefs Hospital Corpsman Hansen LaFoucade, deputy director, Hospital Corps and Leslie Giuy, lead hospital...