11 February 2026 Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms Appoints New Pediatric Advanced Life Support Program Director TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. – Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms has appointed Lt. Cmdr. Jasette Marian M. Fong as its new Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Program Director, strengthening the hospital’s pediatric emergency readiness and reinforcing its commitment to high-quality healthcare...
11 February 2026 NMRTC Camp Lejeune officer honored as Navy Medicine Senior Financial Management Officer of the Year Paperwork and spreadsheets essential to mission accomplishment fill United States Navy Lieutenant Commander Edward Abgevey-Tamakloe’s physical folders and digital files. Perhaps not the immediate imagery when one thinks of readiness, but Agbevey’s duties are.Agbevey currently serves as the director...
11 February 2026 I Keep the Warfighter in the Fight: Hospitalman Emily Williams A Sailor serving aboard Naval Health Cherry Point feels that the Navy has called her to serve and become a part of something greater than herself.Hospitalman Emily Williams, a native of Jacksonville, North Carolina, serves aboard the clinic as a Hospital Corpsman in the facility’s Radiology...
10 February 2026 Fort Walton Beach Native Named Navy Junior Optometrist of the Year While Serving with Navy Medicine in Cuba Courtesy story by Lt. j.g. Taylor Worley, Navy Office of Community OutreachMILLINGTON, Tenn. — Lt. Trey Ketchum, a native of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, was recently named the Stanley H. Freed Navy Junior Optometrist of the Year for 2025 while serving with U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training...
10 February 2026 NMRTC Bethesda Tests Sailors’ Expeditionary Medical Readiness During TCCC Training NMRTC Bethesda Tests Sailors’ Expeditionary Medical Readiness During TCCC Training U.S. Navy story by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Alec Kramer BETHESDA, Md. (Feb. 2, 2026) — Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) is the Department of Defense standard for battlefield trauma care and a...
09 February 2026 Getting Up To Speed [Mentoring] at NMRTC Bremerton It was an informal – and informative – medical mingling meeting as Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton hosted speed mentoring for U.S. Navy officers, February 6, 2026.“The event put a professional spin on the speed dating concept to foster career growth and connection among its...
06 February 2026 Toledo Native Serving with Navy Medicine in Cuba Selected for Commissioning Program MILLINGTON, Tenn. — Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Borst, a native of Toledo, Ohio, was recently selected for the Medical Enlisted Commissioning Program (MECP) for academic year 2026 while serving at U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC) Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.MECP is a Navy...
06 February 2026 We deal in blood: Valkyrie, emergency transfusions, and artificial blood Strengthening Navy Medicine’s operational readiness and advancing standardized, joint trauma capability for future combat, Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Fort Belvoir hosted the Joint Trauma System (JTS) Valkyrie Course to operate Emergency Fresh Whole Blood Transfusion (EFWBT)...
06 February 2026 From Baseball Pitcher to Navy Medicine’s Biochemistry Officer of the Year From the pitcher’s mound to the front lines of naval science, Lt. Cmdr. Elih M. Velazquez-Delgado’s unconventional path has culminated in one of Navy Medicine’s highest honors.Velazquez-Delgado, a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) chemistry division military deputy and acting division head for...
05 February 2026 U.S. Naval Hospital Guam Hosts the First Approved Mobile Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examiner Course U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Guam hosted the first approved mobile Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examiner (SAMFE) course to provide training and certification for joint medical personnel across the Indo-Pacific Region, Jan. 5, 2026.Cmdr. Michelle McCormick and Lt. Cmdr. Amy Zabel, SAMFE instructors...