It was nighttime on the I-805 north when a motorcycle went over a median between the H Street and Bonita Road exits, July 12. The crash left Silverio Gurrola injured on the pavement and his wife, Melinda Gurrola, with a traumatic leg amputation. Amid the chaos and speeding cars, U.S. Navy Hospital...

The South Pacific Island nation of Fiji might seem a world away for a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman from Queens, New York.Pacific Partnership 2025 made such a unique opportunity possible.Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Shane Durand recently took part in the Pacific Partnership mission stop which focused...

SAN DIEGO, CA – July 25, 2025 – Rear Adm. Guido Valdes relinquished command to Rear Adm. Kevin Brown as commander of Naval Medical Forces Pacific (NMFP) and director of the Defense Health Network – Pacific Rim (DHN-PR) during a change of command ceremony at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD)...

NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga – Cmdr. Christina Carter, a public health nurse currently serving as Director for Public Health at Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms and Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms, recently returned from a temporary assignment to the Kingdom of Tonga in...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. – Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms held a change of command and retirement ceremony on July 18, 2025, marking a transition in leadership and honoring decades of dedicated service in the Navy.During the ceremony, Capt. Janiese Cleckley...

The crisp lines of her Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) Dress Blue uniform mirrored the determination in Staff Sgt. Geraldine Corbita’s eyes as she held her certificate of completion. It was a small gesture, but one laden with history.On July 11, Corbita became the first Philippine Navy Marine corpsman...

NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga -- During their stop in the Kingdom of Tonga, the Pacific Partnership 2025 (PP-25) medical team, consisting of U.S. Navy, Army, Public Health Service and Tongan Ministry of Health personnel, conducted over 30 community health engagements in the fields of One Health, cardiology,...

Whether handling to a faux patient reporting body aches, sore throat and chills or being informed on the sugar tong method to stabilize a fracture, Naval Hospital Bremerton staff members honed their medical response abilities during the recently held July Skills Fair.Navy Nurse Corps officers and...

Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Urgent Care Clinic daily hours of operation are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., seven days a week, open on weekends and all holidays except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.For those patients in need of urgent care outside of the 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. window, they can contact our...

For Sailors assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton and other local commands who ever wondered about progressing into a Hospital Corps field of expertise, they were recently afforded that opportunity.They learned firsthand on a number of specialty jobs at a NEC [Navy...