01 July 2026 Cherry Point Clinic Celebrates Fifty-Eight Years of “Keeping the Warfighter in the Fight” Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point celebrated a milestone of its mission as the keystone of medical readiness aboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and wellness in the surrounding communities on July 1, 2026.Fifty-eight years earlier, at 11 a.m. on July 1, 1968, Naval Hospital Cherry Point was...
10 June 2026 Torpedo Destroyers, the Great War, and the Dawn of the Independent Duty Corpsman On the night of April 17, 1918, the American cargo steamer SS Florence H. lay at anchor in Quiberon Bay off the coast of Brittany, France. Then it caught fire. A fire on any ship is bad, but it is worse when its cargo hold is full of 3,500 tons of smokeless powder. With the appearance of the first...