The Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE) successfully launched its very first Gator Dawn: a preventive medicine field exchange with participation from the armed forces of Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya. The event took place at NECE’s main facility on Naval Air Station Jacksonville (NASJAX),...

Two years after its inaugural 1993 class, the Navy’s Military Tropical Medicine (MTM) program took on a tri-service mission, with a hallmark structure of 4 weeks of in-person didactic followed by 2 weeks in tropical infectious disease endemic locations. In 2020, the course momentarily halted...

SAN ANTONIO – (Oct. 12, 2023) – Sailors assigned to Naval Medical Forces Support Command (NMFSC), Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, Navy Talent Acquisition Group (NTAG) San Antonio, and Navy veterans gathered at Municipal Plaza during a City Council Session to honor the Navy’s 248th...

Hospital Corpsman Second Class Douglass Jones joined the Navy to challenge himself and develop skills that could one day be useful outside of the military. Fortunately for one service member, Jones was able to apply his newly learned skills in a very unexpected way.The son of Navy parents, Jones...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (July 25, 2023) – Capt. William Brafford, commander, Naval Medical Forces Support Command (NMFSC), joined by Command Master Chief Veronica Brittenum, visited and toured facilities of Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio at the Battlefield Health...

Established in February 1923, the Naval Postgraduate Dental School (NPDS) serves as the cornerstone for the Navy Dental Corps’ postgraduate training and is the primary force generating producer of dental specialists for the Fleet. Academically aligned with the Uniformed Services University of the...

CAPT Walter D. Brafford relieved Rear Adm. Cynthia A. Kuehner as commander, Naval Medical Forces Support Command (NMFSC), in a ceremony at the Historic Quadrangle, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, May 25, 2023.Rear Adm. Anne Swap, Director, National Capital Region Market, presided over the ceremony,...

Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Travis Hunter from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Rota, Spain, was announced as Navy Medicine's 2022 Sailor of the Year (SOY), on May 18, 2023.Hunter received the recognition at a ceremony hosted by U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) leadership...

SAN ANTONIO – (May 1, 2023) – Personnel assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, joined by senior leaders from throughout Joint Bases San Antonio, attended numerous events during Fiesta San Antonio, April 20 - 30.On April 24, NAMRU San Antonio Executive Officer Capt. Ewell Hollis...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas – Rear Adm. Cynthia Kuehner, Commander of Naval Medical Forces Support Command (NMFSC), provided congratulatory remarks prior to the JBSA Annual Volunteer Awards Ceremony held here April 19, 2023. She then assisted other senior leaders in handing out...