AGANA HEIGHTS, Guam - U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Guam strengthened its trauma care capabilities by becoming an American College of Surgeons approved Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course site, Jan. 23, 2026. This milestone that enhances medical readiness in the geographically isolated...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms launched a new “Commanding Officer for a Day” initiative on Feb. 19, 2026 aimed at strengthening leadership development and providing junior officers a firsthand look at the responsibilities of...

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – While many first babies of the year arrive within minutes or hours of midnight on Jan. 1, milestones unfold on their own timeline in a small, remote community like Naval Station Guantanamo Bay.U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay welcomed its first baby of 2026 on Feb. 18, at...

Courtesy story by Alvin Plexico, Navy Office of Community OutreachMILLINGTON, Tenn. - Every sailor’s story of naval service is unique. For Petty Officer 2nd Class Connor Cameron, this story began in Hollywood, Florida, where skills and values learned there would be foundational to success in the...

On Friday, Feb. 20, 2026, Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Alpha conducted a change of command ceremony aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.Capt. Kenneth Basford relinquished command to Capt. Cheri Smiley in an outdoor ceremony with the Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton Corpsman Memorial and Navy...

Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) Director, U.S. Navy Capt. Elizabeth Adriano, presented U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Chad Laughrey, chaplain at NMCSD, with his board certification from the National Association of Veterans Affairs Chaplains at NMCSD, Feb. 17.Board certification is a distinguished...

A routine lunchtime gym visit turned into anything but normal for U.S. Navy Hospitalman Joseph Clark in Waukegan, Illinois.It was corpsman up for man down.Clark, along with Hospital Corpsmen 3rd Class Adam Altreche, Zachary Evans and Dillon Talburt, responded to an urgent call with medical support...

By Bernard S. Little Walter Reed Hospital Communications“It’s Not Just Care, It’s Family” focuses on drawing awareness to the continuity of care service members and their families receive when they come to Walter Reed, and this care includes children’s oral health to enhance troop readiness.With...

YOKOSUKA, Japan — U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka conducted an Advanced Trauma Life Support course, reinforcing battlefield readiness and joint interoperability by training Navy, Air Force and host-nation medical personnel in standardized, life-saving trauma assessment and management. The most recent...

By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tyrell K. MorrisNEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Feb. 1, 2026) – Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) conducted its first at-sea surgery as she sailed through the Atlantic Ocean for the first time during Builder’s Trials. The emergency appendectomy was...