JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (March 25, 2024) – Rear Adm. Guido Valdes, commander, Naval Medical Forces Pacific (NMFP) made an official visit to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio.During his visit, he toured NAMRU San Antonio facilities at the Battlefield Health and Trauma...

What started as a unique civil service opportunity for one human resources specialist has turned into more than 40 years of service to her nation.“In the early 80s I was attending San Diego Mesa College when the opportunity to work at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) surfaced. Because my dad...

A ship’s medical department is a complicated, interwoven group of people with different responsibilities dedicated to the health and wellbeing of the crew. Ranging from the ship’s nurse to the enlisted corpsman the medical administration, everyone has a purpose and a mission to complete.Lt. Cmdr...

On the morning of March 20, in the year 1969, Hospital Corpsman Tommy Vickers, stationed in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, was looking for his friend and fellow corpsman after Viet Cong had run over their positions at An Hoa.Vickers and others were had toiled through the previous long day and longer...

Inventive ingenuity was on display for staff, patient and visitor at Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton.During the command-wide Continuous Process Improvement Fair held March 11-14, 2024, multiple departments came together to showcase their ideas to enhance the impact on quality...

The Drug Education for Youth (DEFY) Team at Navy Readiness and Training Command San Diego was awarded a Length of Service award Jan. 25, 2024 during a Train the Trainer event in Millington, Tennessee, to highlight and acknowledge three years of continuously running a DEFY program.DEFY is a...

It was a slice of support for this year’s Patient Safety Awareness Week.With the theme “Be a Patient Safety Hero: Anytime, Anywhere – Always,” Naval Hospital Bremerton reached out to staff to describe their commitment to patient safety by providing replies to the following questions:What does...

Selected as Naval Medical Center San Diego’s Junior Officer of the Quarter, fourth quarter, FY2023, Lt. Victoria Medved, NMCSD Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy assistant department head, exemplifies the significance of the award, 12 Mar.Medved, a Lowell, Mass., native is the daughter of a...

NAVAL AIR STATION SIGONELLA, Italy – Rear Adm. Guido F. Valdes, commander, Naval Medical Forces Pacific (NMFP), visited U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) EURAFCENT and U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Sigonella on February 26 and 27.Valdes toured NAMRU SOUTH...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (March 6, 2024) –The Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) Medical Inspector General (MEDIG) evaluated the performance, efficiency, and mission readiness at Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio during a scheduled command inspection at the...