CAMP COURTNEY, OKINAWA, JAPAN- U.S. Navy corpsmen with 3rd Marine Division and III Marine Expeditionary Force stationed in Hawaii and Okinawa attended combat medicine training at Camp Courtney. Guest speakers shared their knowledge and experience with the evolution of the medical practice, the...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms launched a new “Commanding Officer for a Day” initiative on Feb. 19, 2026 aimed at strengthening leadership development and providing junior officers a firsthand look at the responsibilities of...

On Friday, Feb. 20, 2026, Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Alpha conducted a change of command ceremony aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.Capt. Kenneth Basford relinquished command to Capt. Cheri Smiley in an outdoor ceremony with the Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton Corpsman Memorial and Navy...

Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) Director, U.S. Navy Capt. Elizabeth Adriano, presented U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Chad Laughrey, chaplain at NMCSD, with his board certification from the National Association of Veterans Affairs Chaplains at NMCSD, Feb. 17.Board certification is a distinguished...

A routine lunchtime gym visit turned into anything but normal for U.S. Navy Hospitalman Joseph Clark in Waukegan, Illinois.It was corpsman up for man down.Clark, along with Hospital Corpsmen 3rd Class Adam Altreche, Zachary Evans and Dillon Talburt, responded to an urgent call with medical support...

YOKOSUKA, Japan — U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka conducted an Advanced Trauma Life Support course, reinforcing battlefield readiness and joint interoperability by training Navy, Air Force and host-nation medical personnel in standardized, life-saving trauma assessment and management. The most recent...

It’s not easy to catch up with a Navy Nurse Corps officer helping run half a dozen clinics, oversee over a hundred staff and coordinate healthcare for nearly 14,000 eligible beneficiaries.Even when such efforts have resulted in being recognized as Junior Officer of the Quarter for Fourth Quarter of...

Being named civilian of the year is a significant professional milestone. For Paula Curielabreu, the Naval Medical Forces Pacific’s (NMFP) Fiscal Year 2025 Civilian of the Year, it is more than an accomplishment. In a command whose core mission is the health and readiness of the nation’s...

The old adage of where there’s smoke must mean there’s fire is not always the [surgical] case.The Association of perioperative Nurses has formally recognized Naval Hospital Bremerton Main Operating Room with the AORN Go Clear Award for successfully eliminating surgical smoke in all operating...

Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Pendleton held a graduation ceremony for the 2026 Medical Service Corps Inservice Procurement Program cohort on Feb. 13, 2026, in the Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton galley meeting room.The cohort and graduation ceremony were coordinated by Lt. Nnika...