Meet Hospital Corpsman First Class (HM1) Ricky Bryant, a Recruit Division Commander (RDC) at Recruit Training Command (RTC) Great Lakes, the Navy’s only boot camp.A native of Melbourne, Florida, Bryant joined the Navy 17 years ago with a desire to serve something larger than himself while building a...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Jan. 13, 2026) – To enhance each other’s capabilities to counteract emerging threats, benefiting military health as well as global health security, representatives of Japan’s National Defense Medical College (NDMC) met with leadership and research...

For 47 years, the U.S. Navy’s Religious Program Specialist (RP) rating has carried on a legacy of service that stretches back to the start of the Chaplain Corps 250 years ago. Numbering about 750 Sailors, these specialists are tasked with a mission unlike any other, both combat-ready protectors and...

Team members with the Operational Medical Systems Program Management Office joined dozens of U.S. Navy corpsmen and medical officers at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, this week as part of an end-user touchpoint here, Jan. 14, 2026.The event was designed to collect feedback from...

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...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Genevieve Landers, a native of Annandale, Virginia, serves as a program support specialist at the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED).Landers graduated from W.T. Woodson High School (now Carter G. Woodson High School) in 2002 and most recently obtained her Master of...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Naval Medical Forces Development Command (NMFDC) launched a new, fully online and asynchronous Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Black Belt certification course, now open for enrollment to all Department of the Navy (DoN) personnel.The initiative is designed to...

NEWPORT, R.I. (Jan. 8, 2026): The U.S. Navy has recognized Lt. Ara Gutierrez, assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and training Command (NMRTC) New England, as the Junior Medical Laboratory Scientist of the Year, celebrating her profound impact on military readiness through innovation, efficiency,...

NEWPORT, R.I. (Jan. 8, 2026) - Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) New England has been recognized for its outstanding personnel retention, earning the Fiscal Year 2025 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) Retention Excellence Award.The command’s success was highlighted by the...

The Medical Logistics (MEDLOG) department at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) has been awarded the Commander's Cup in recognition of its critical support services role in executing the hospital's mission of optimizing health and enhancing readiness.While frontline caregivers are often in the...