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...

The president’s cabinet is convening this morning, but you will not find them in any boardroom or oval office. This is 1929 and the president is on the south lawn of the White House immersed in a new morning ritual that the press has dubbed “Hoover Ball.”Starched shirts and polished shoes have been...

Rear Adm. Bruce L. Gillingham, Surgeon General of the Navy and Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), visited Naval Medical Logistics Command (NMLC), Fort Detrick, Maryland, on Oct. 29, to personally thank more than 60 civilian members of the workforce as they transition to the Defense...

It was the summer of 1963.President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered two of the most important speeches in American history.The Beatles were basking in their new found fame with the release of their first album Please Please Me. They were still largely unknown in the United...

On October 18, 2021, Rear Adm. Maxine Conder, the former Director of the Nurse Corps and the second woman in the Navy to achieve flag rank died. She was 95.Admiral Conder took helm of the Navy Nurse Corps in July 1975, becoming its thirteenth leader and only the eighth person to hold the title of...