Rare is the time when the normal staid and focused ambiance of the laboratory in Navy Medicine Readiness Training Unit Bangor becomes full of boisterous gaiety.Yet last year there was a sudden burst of unleashed enthusiasm when the Navy Medical Service Corps officially increased their ranks as Navy...

Okinawa, Japan-The pharmacy at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa (USNHO) recently added a fully automated ScriptCenter in the pharmacy lobby for beneficiaries in Okinawa. Capt. Kathleen Cooperman spoke during the ribbon-cutting to staff and patients in the waiting area about the importance of...

With May designated by the Department of Defense as Mental Health Awareness Month, there is one definitive aspect which Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Cade Crenshaw wants everyone to know about mental health.“Mental health isn’t a one size fits all. Just because something works for someone else doesn’t...

Cedric L. Fuller is an equipment manager and accountable property officer at Naval Health Clinic Lemoore. He is from Musella, Georgia and has worked at the clinic for four years.Fuller is responsible for the management of all medical and dental equipment that has a life cycle. His duties include...

The Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton directorate of nursing services held a skills-a-thon in the multi-service ward during the week of May 20, 2024.The event, coordinated by Lt. Stephanie Mondloch, was designed to provide healthcare providers the opportunity to brush up on their medical knowledge and...

A midweek morning suddenly exploded into a training drill at Naval Hospital Bremerton.As part of a full scale exercise to test the military treatment facility response to a mass casualty scenario, a mock blast went off near the radiology and laboratory area, resulting in a number of faux wounded,...

“You guys are the Marines’ doctors; there’s no better in the business than Navy corpsmen,” U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Lewis B. ‘Chesty’ Puller told his corpsmen during the Korean War.This enduring trust highlights the critical role Navy corpsmen play on the battlefield, a role that continually...

When command approval was timely needed for a Sailor, Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman Eric Morgan went and got it.Even it took traveling a long distance to get the signature.Such a scenario – and others similar - help exemplify Morgan’s commitment to his Sailors. That dedication did not go unnoticed,...

SAN DIEGO, CA - On Thursday, May 16, Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) welcomed 100 students to its Operational Readiness, Warfighter Performance laboratories where NHRC staff organized five different interactive stations, moving each group of students through the exhibits in a round-robin...

When Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Gunnar Haskill was asked to sum up his Navy Medicine career in one word, he replied, “Fulfilling.”Haskill is a behavioral health technician assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton. He assists psychologists and psychiatrists by performing...