Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command San Diego’s very own Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Spencer Tanner will compete in the 2023 USA Cycling Masters and Para-Cycling Road National Championships, Aug. 26 - 27.The competition, which will be held in Augusta, Ga., will have Tanner competing in two...

Expeditionary Medical Facility (EMF) Juliet conducted its first orthopedic surgical partnership mission with Honduran healthcare professionals at Hospital Escuela during a Global Health Engagement in the U.S. Southern Command area of operations, Aug. 14-18...

(Aug. 17, 2023) KISSIMEE, Fla. – Researchers with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC)’s Biological Defense Research Directorate (BDRD) won second place for their poster presentation session at the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) on 17 August.BDRD, located in Frederick, Maryland...

SAN DIEGO– The Mentor, Train and Evaluate (MTE) program, led by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), brought their knowledge and capabilities to the West Coast for the first time, with a visit to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) from Aug.14-18, 2023.The...

TUY HOA, Vietnam - Now in its 18th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission in the Indo-Pacific region. The mission kicked off in Tuy Hoa, Vietnam earlier this month, and will conduct missions throughout Southeast...

KISSIMEE, Fla. – Personnel with the Naval Medical Research & Development (NMR&D) enterprise concluded the 2023 Military Health Symposium Research Symposium (MHSRS) on August 17.MHSRS, a four-day annual event which took place this year from August 14-17 at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Conference...

Sailors and Civilians recently bid Fair Winds and Following Seas to an officer who served his entire Navy career as a Nurse.Navy Capt. Phillip Boyer retires later this year after more than two decades in the Navy Nurse Corps, ending his service as Chief Nursing Officer aboard Naval Health Clinic...

(Aug. 14, 2023) Far be it for Navy Lt. j.g. Olivia Cook to wait until her initial Urgent Care Clinic shift to help another in need.There’s a two-year old child especially thankful.Cook, a Navy Nurse Corps officer, had just finished her first day check-in at her new command, Naval Hospital Bremerton,...

A Sailor aboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point credits his mother as inspiration to serve beneficiaries and the families of Marines and Sailors receiving medical care aboard the base.Hospital Corpsman Third Class Ernest Espiritu serves as the Work Center Supervisor in the Patient Centered...

In 2006, as a newly enlisted sailor, Zachary Newcomb asked his maternal grandfather what was in the locked wooden boxes that newly selected Navy chiefs carried. His grandfather, a retired Master Chief Petty Officer in the Hospital Corps replied, “I guess you’re going to have to make Chief if you...