Great Lakes, Ill. - In a day marked by two milestones, Lt. Cmdr. Robert Johnson, Medical Officer Programs and Scholarships officer assigned to Navy Talent Acquisition Group Great Lakes, commissioned two newly selected officers into the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps.Ensign Carina Alers and Ensign Itzel...

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...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — More than 200 nurses and hospital corpsmen sharpened critical clinical abilities during Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms' Annual Nursing and Corpsmen Skills Fair, held April 28-29, reinforcing the command's commitment to delivering high...

CAMP LEJEUNE, NC – A United States Navy nurse at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune is being honored for her research and process improvement efforts in pediatric trauma care.Cdr. Emily Latimer, an emergency clinical nurse specialist, was recently awarded the Defense Health Agency Nursing Award for...

FALLS CHURCH, Va.— July 10 marked a rare and symbolic changing of the guard for the United States Navy Nurse Corps. On the same day that Capt. Lonnie Hosea concluded a distinguished three-decade military career, his daughter, Ensign Jenna Hosea Baker, raised her right hand to begin her own.In a...

SAN DIEGO — Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) launched the Navy’s first pilot Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) delivered through a virtual platform, June 10, marking a significant advancement in trauma education and medical readiness across the Military Health System.The three-day pilot...

Navy Lt. j.g. Drew Murray, a nurse assigned to U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Guam, recently earned recognition as a recipient of the 2025 Military health System (MHS) Nursing Leadership Excellence Award in the junior military category.The MHS Nursing Leadership Excellence Award honors military nurses...

Lt. Cmdr. Alainna Crotty a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Crotty graduated from Bishop McDevitt High School in 2007The skills and values needed to succeed in the Navy are similar to those found in Harrisburg.“Growing...

Courtesy story by Megan Lemly, Navy Office of Community OutreachMILLINGTON, Tenn. – Lt. Lowell Hartzog, a native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."The biggest lessons I learned from my hometown...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Lt. Ian Gabriel Mojica, a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Twentynine Palms, was recognized as the command’s Officer of the Quarter for the second quarter of 2026 for his leadership and contributions to operational mental...