Naval Medical Forces Pacific announced its annual Continuous Process Improvement project competition winners during an NMFP Commander’s synchronization meeting at the headquarters in Naval Base San Diego, California, July 7...

Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) departed Naval Base San Diego, May 3, launching the start of Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22)...

Naval Medical Forces Pacific announced the 2022 NMFP Senior Sailor of the Year during a ceremony at Naval Base San Diego, April 13...

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia (March 18, 2022) – Capt. Melissa Austin assumed command of Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Fort Belvoir during an assumption of command ceremony, March 18, on board Fort Belvoir Army Base.Austin is the first commanding officer of NMRTC Fort Belvoir, a...

On a picturesque morning, overlooking the cityscape across the San Diego Bay, friends, family and service members gathered at the Admiral Kidd Catering and Conference Center, Naval Base Point Loma, Harbor Drive Annex, San Diego, to bear witness and celebrate Naval Medical Forces Pacific’s deputy...

On February 17, 1948, a Navy medical team embarked on a historic journey across the African Continent. Over a period of nine months they travelled in a caravan from Port Said, Egypt to Capetown, South Africa while collecting thousands of rare specimens, providing medical care to local populations...

It is estimated that between 32,000 and 37,000 women veterans are homeless or living below the poverty line.Seventy percent of homeless veterans are single mothers.And women veterans are twice as likely to become homeless than women who have never served in the military.For Navy Reserve Nurse Lt...

Chiefs and Directors are an essential part of Navy Medicine and have long represented the upper tiers of corps leadership. By why do some staff corps have a Director and others a Chief? And if there is a distinction between these titles, why are they often collectively referred to as “Corps Chiefs”?...

The Navy Medical Department began 2022 by welcoming a new Director of the Medical Civilian Corps.Mr. Mark Boman, Chief of Staff, Naval Medical Forces Pacific, assumed the additional role in January 2022; the third person to hold the position since its inception in April 2017 and first person not...

In the early morning of March 19, 1969, a Marine combat base at Phu Loc 6 near An Hoa, Vietnam, became the scene of a surprise enemy attack. As the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) infiltrated the camp’s barbed wire perimeter, a 24-year old corpsman named Bobby Ray charged into the melee to render...