JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (March 25, 2024) – Rear Adm. Guido Valdes, commander, Naval Medical Forces Pacific (NMFP) made an official visit to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio.During his visit, he toured NAMRU San Antonio facilities at the Battlefield Health and Trauma...

A Navy Nurse who served aboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point recently departed to pursue her passion and become a professional nurse researcher through the Navy’s Duty Under Instruction Program.After serving four years aboard Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point, Lt. Amanda Gwyn will continue...

BETHESDA, Md. – Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC)’s Clinical Trials Center (CTC) is seeking volunteers to test a new therapy intended for use as a pre- and post-exposure prevention measure for influenza.The study, expected to begin in mid-April and funded by the Defense Health Agency, will...

By the 1990s, the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda and Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., stood as two of the world's largest military hospitals – medical standard-bearers for the U.S. Navy and Army, respectively. At the time, few could have foreseen their eventual...

What started as a unique civil service opportunity for one human resources specialist has turned into more than 40 years of service to her nation.“In the early 80s I was attending San Diego Mesa College when the opportunity to work at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) surfaced. Because my dad...

Leaders aboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point marked the inauguration of a resource improving the method and manner Marines, Sailors and beneficiaries receive prescriptions aboard the base.U.S. Marine Col. Brendan Burks, MCAS Cherry Point commanding officer, and Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella,...

At the forefront of bolstering Navy's force health protection capabilities stands the Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE), dedicated to equipping Naval units with essential training and support. Recently, NECE delivered specialized pesticide equipment training to the Navy Environmental and...

The Defense Health Headquarters (DHHQ) located in Falls Church, VA, is part of the main Defense Health Agency (DHA), a joint activity that supports health care offered through the Military Health System (MHS) throughout the Department of Defense (DoD), and across the globe. It serves nearly 10...

A ship’s medical department is a complicated, interwoven group of people with different responsibilities dedicated to the health and wellbeing of the crew. Ranging from the ship’s nurse to the enlisted corpsman the medical administration, everyone has a purpose and a mission to complete.Lt. Cmdr...

On the morning of March 20, in the year 1969, Hospital Corpsman Tommy Vickers, stationed in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, was looking for his friend and fellow corpsman after Viet Cong had run over their positions at An Hoa.Vickers and others were had toiled through the previous long day and longer...