TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms recognized two standout nurses for their extraordinary patient care and compassionate service as the 2025 DAISY Award Honorees on May 16. Lt. Affeya T. C. Jackson and Lt. jg. Aaron Joseph Gacad, both members of the hospital’s Maternal Infant...

SAN DIEGO (May 16, 2025) – Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) hosted a delegation of Defense Attaché spouses for a guided tour as part of the Spring 2025 Foreign Defense Attaché Orientation Program, a semiannual initiative led by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) on behalf of the Secretary...

Teaching the Tactical Combat Casualty Care course is a labor of love.So insists Hospital Corpsman 1st Class (Fleet Marine Force qualified) Austin Santistevan, Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton TCCC course instructor.“I love being a TCCC instructor. I can teach a course and know I’m...

HONOLULU (May 14, 2025) Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLT), announced the FY 2024 Sailors of the Year (SOY) during a ceremony held, May 14, at the Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu. Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Andrew Velikic was selected as the Sea Sailor of the Year, and Aviation Structural Mechanic...

Land, sea and air assets of the U.S. military assigned in the Pacific Northwest came together to hone life-saving techniques and strategies during a joint scenario-based field Tactical Combat Casualty Care exercise, May 15, 2024.Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton hospital...

Long have U.S. Navy hospital corpsmen answered the operational readiness call when needed.Even to return home.When Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Marissa Stancil learned about the opportunity to support the unique Navy mission of Huntsville Navy Week by heading back to her Alabama roots, April 21-27,...

SAN DIEGO (May 2025) – Lt. Melissa Campbell, a Navy Nurse Corps officer assigned to the Directorate for Surgical Services at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD), was named the command’s Junior Officer of the Quarter for Fiscal Year 2025, Quarter 1—an honor that recognizes junior officers who...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. – Sailors from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms showcased Navy Medicine career opportunities to local high school students during a recent Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) Exposition held on May 1, 2025 at Marine Corps Air Ground...

The was a slight caveat for Navy Nurse Corps offices stationed at Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton in recognizing not only their 2025 Daisy Award winner, but also the other two nominees.All three are temporarily unavailable due to operational commitment.As with that trio, such has...

The sound of explosions tore through the morning calm and shredded a squad on patrol.Man down meant corpsman up.The faux firefight was proving ground for hospital corpsmen assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton to hone their Tactical Combat Casualty Care abilities in an...