CAMP COURTNEY, Okinawa, Japan – Surrounded by friends and family, U.S. Navy Captain Joseph Piansay closed the book on a remarkable 35 years of honorable service. More than just a retirement; the ceremony was a testament to dedication and sacrifice that will inspire future Marines and Sailors for...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas – The Naval Medical Forces Development Command (NMFDC) is mission driven and most importantly people powered! Today, we highlight Logistics Specialist 3rd Class Andre Metoyer with the command’s Logistics and Facilities directorate.Metoyer answered a few...

ROTA, Spain (August 21, 2025)- A successful large-scale mass casualty exercise was carried out by U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Rota, in collaboration with Naval Station (NAVSTA) Rota and Federal Firefighters, August 21, 2025, aboard the naval station.The exercise was...

Staff at Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point bid Fair Winds and Following Seas to Hospital Corpsman Second Class Jared Michael Del Rosario on Friday, August 22, 2025.Del Rosario was Leading Petty Officer of the Laboratory Department from October 2021 to August 2025, leading 18 staff in the collection...

HA TINH PROVINCE, Vietnam – A U.S. Navy hospital corpsman deployed as a short-term individual augmentee to support a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recovery mission in Vietnam from May 28 to July 7, 2025, found himself in the right place at the right time for mission success.U.S. Navy Hospital...

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – In a quiet room turned makeshift battlefield, corpsmen at U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay leaned over training mannequins and volunteers, practicing one of the most critical lifesaving skills in combat trauma care: administering a whole blood transfusion in the field.The...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms has been awarded the Blue-H Award at the Gold Star level for the 14th consecutive year, a recognition from the Navy Surgeon General that highlights excellence in health promotion and wellness across Navy Medicine.The “H” in the Blue H stands...

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Yoann Le Breton, with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), and Evelina Angov, with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), submitted a provisional patent application for an antimicrobial, non-antibiotic solution to wound care on July 17.Le Breton and Angov, both...

By Lt. Katie Parizek, Medical Service CorpsFor the first time, Navy Reserve Medical Service Corps (MSC) officers assigned to the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) Headquarters participated in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps-led Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 2025, July 30 - August...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Eddie S. Cain, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, and retired U.S. Air Force veteran, has been promoted to receiving supervisor at Naval Medical Readiness Logistics Command (NMRLC), on Cheatham Annex, Williamsburg, Virginia.With more than 27 years of combined military and civil...