08 May 2026 Operation Golden Flow and Beyond: A Short History of the U.S. Navy Drug Screening Program For today’s Sailors the summons from their command’s urinalysis coordinator is as routine as morning colors: "The following personnel have been selected by the Navy Drug Screening Program to provide a sample...."While Benjamin Franklin famously limited life’s certainties to “death and taxes,” those...
07 May 2026 Nurses through the Years at Naval Hospital Cherry Point: 1968 - 1979 Since its founding as a hospital in 1968 and subsequent transition to health clinic in 2007, nurses aboard Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point have played a critical role in the readiness of Marines and Sailors serving aboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point.These historical photos are of Nurses...
10 April 2026 First Contact: Meet the Dive Medical Recovery Team of Artemis II SAN DIEGO -- The first face the Artemis II crew will see upon their return to Earth will be the face of a U.S. Navy Sailor.Lt. Cmdr. Jesse Wang, Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman Laddy Aldridge, Chief Hospital Corpsman Vlad Link, and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Steve Kapala make up the dive medical...
14 January 2026 Sailor, Clinician, Leader, and Woodworker: The Journey of Rear Adm. Anthony LaCourse In the quiet, early hours of a Saturday morning in East Taunton, Massachusetts, the rhythmic sound of a chisel meeting grain fills a backyard workshop. The workspace is a blend of the ancient and the modern. Traditional hand saws and clamps share bench space with high-precision computer numerical...
29 December 2025 Honing the “Ghost in the Machine”; How Navy psychologists are building the future of aviation with ASANA PENSACOLA, Fla. – Images of hot-shot aviators pushing the outer limits of aircraft performance have been popularized through Hollywood films and popular culture, and while there are many traits that hold true, there is a grounded aspect that many overlook. How does the U.S. Navy select and retain...
21 November 2025 Laying the Keel of Navy Medicine: The Board of Consultation and the Origin of the Manual of the Medical Department Tucked away in a display case located in the command suite at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) in Falls Church, Virginia, lies an unassuming relic: a small, beige book of instructions dated 1917. The casual visitor may walk past this humble relic without thinking twice about its...
15 August 2025 The Roots of Readiness: Setting the Foundation for the Navy Dental Corps Anniversaries are more than just dates on a calendar. They offer a moment to pause and celebrate the contributions of individuals, both past and present. They also build esprit de corps by helping to define an organization’s origins and marking how far it has come. Each year on August 22, Navy...