U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Matthew Case, acting surgeon general of the Navy and acting chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, joined more than 80 Sailors in Billings, Montana, to kick off the city’s first-ever Navy Week, Aug. 20-22.The 3-day visit was part of a Navy Office of Community Outreach...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — A farewell dinner for a Navy hospital corpsman turned into a real-world emergency response Aug. 21 when 10 hospital corpsmen and several Marines rushed to the scene of a house explosion in Twentynine Palms, helping pull an injured man from a burning, collapsing home,...

Ensuring warfighters are medically ready to deploy across the vast Pacific region requires more than routine care. It demands a culture that constantly finds ways to do our operational processes better. That drive to improve was the focus of the 2026 Naval Medical Forces Pacific Continuous Process...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — In August 2026, Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms recognized Hospital Corpsman 1st Class April Million as Senior Sailor of the 3rd Quarter, highlighting her leadership, mentorship and commitment to supporting operational readiness and...

BREMERTON, Wash.— Dentists and hospital corpsmen at Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Bremerton gathered Aug. 20 to celebrate the 114th birthday of the U.S. Navy Dental Corps.While the official anniversary falls on Aug.22, the clinic marked the occasion early, taking time between...

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Student interns with the Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Program (SEAP), and college students with the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) presented findings from their summer research at Naval Medical Research Command’s STEM expo on Aug. 14.Interns...

BETHESDA, Md. — After 28 years of unwavering dedication to the United States Navy and its Sailors, Chief Hospital Corpsman Avesta El officially retired during a ceremony held at Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command (NMRTC) Bethesda on Aug. 14, 2026.The ceremony brought together family, friends,...

Nurses and corpsmen serving aboard Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Cherry Point spent an August morning refreshing their proficiencies and learning about updates to their career fields.The NMRTC Cherry Point Nurses Skills Fair held Thursday, August 20, 2026, in the facility gave staff...

SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON (Aug. 21, 2026) Arleen Hidalgo Morales, of Moca, Puerto Rico, is participating in the Office of Naval Research’s Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) at Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio.NREIP gives academically talented college students,...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — For one day, Lt. j.g. David J. Naiman traded his role overseeing preventive medicine for a seat in the command suite, gaining firsthand insight into the decisions, competing priorities and uncertainty that come with leading a Navy Medicine command.Naiman, an environmental...