Sailors and Civilians recently bid Fair Winds and Following Seas to an officer who served his entire Navy career as a Nurse.Navy Capt. Phillip Boyer retires later this year after more than two decades in the Navy Nurse Corps, ending his service as Chief Nursing Officer aboard Naval Health Clinic...

(Aug. 14, 2023) Far be it for Navy Lt. j.g. Olivia Cook to wait until her initial Urgent Care Clinic shift to help another in need.There’s a two-year old child especially thankful.Cook, a Navy Nurse Corps officer, had just finished her first day check-in at her new command, Naval Hospital Bremerton,...

A Sailor aboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point credits his mother as inspiration to serve beneficiaries and the families of Marines and Sailors receiving medical care aboard the base.Hospital Corpsman Third Class Ernest Espiritu serves as the Work Center Supervisor in the Patient Centered...

In 2006, as a newly enlisted sailor, Zachary Newcomb asked his maternal grandfather what was in the locked wooden boxes that newly selected Navy chiefs carried. His grandfather, a retired Master Chief Petty Officer in the Hospital Corps replied, “I guess you’re going to have to make Chief if you...

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – (Aug. 15, 2023) – Research scientists assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio presented their scientific posters during two poster sessions on day two of the 2023 Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) held at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention...

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Military and civilian staff with the Navy Medical Research and Development (NMR&D) enterprise arrived at the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) on Aug. 14.MHSRS, an annual conference for stakeholders in the medical care of service members and veterans, takes place...

ALMIRANTE, Panama - The Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Burlington (T-EPF 10) arrived in Almirante, Panama, Aug. 11, marking the first of many stops throughout the course of the Continuing Promise 2023 mission.During Burlington’s time in Panama, U.S. Navy and partner nation...

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC) held a change of command ceremony in the Daniel K. Inouye building on the Forest Glen Annex on 11 Aug.Capt. William Deniston was relieved as commander, NMRC, by Capt. Franca Jones in an official ceremony in front of distinguished guests,...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Aug. 9, 2023) – Pennsylvania State University sophomore William Hervey, of San Antonio, an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) intern assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio’s Biomedical Systems Engineering and...

PHU YEN, Vietnam - Pacific Partnership has returned to Tuy Hoa, Phu Yen Province, Vietnam, August 9, to commence the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific. Returning to Vietnam for the 12th time, Pacific...