Twenty-five Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine enlisted service members assigned to the Uniformed Services University (USU) successfully completed the first phase of their journeys to become military physicians, trading in their non-commissioned officer stripes for the silver bars of second...

On the morning of June 6, 1944, Navy physician Lt. (j.g.) Frank Ramsey, Jr., and Pharmacist’s Mate Third Class Byron Dary landed on Omaha Beach with the 6th Naval Beach Battalion.Upon hitting the beachhead, the physician and hospital corpsman rushed to the aid of wounded Army personnel lying near a...

Naval Medical Readiness Logistics Command (NMRLC) hosted the U. S. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) FY-23 Logistics Summit, in Williamsburg, VA, Apr. 18-20.Department of Defense senior leaders from agencies around the United States and the Pentagon toured NMRLC warehouse facilities identified...

SAN DIEGO – Capt. Kim Davis turned over command of Naval Medical Center and Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command San Diego to Capt. Elizabeth Adriano during a ceremony at the hospital presided over by Commander, Naval Medical Forces Pacific, Director, San Diego Market and Chief of the...

The Human Research Protection Program of the Navy (DON HRPP) held its first-ever in-person meeting of stakeholders at the Defense Health Headquarters outside Washington, DC this week.The program, in cooperation with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), is formally responsible for overseeing the...

The Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center changed its name in accordance with section 711 of John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for FY19 to the Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command (NMCFHPC), effective January 01, 2023, emphasizing its operational mission...

An innovative idea, born out of necessity, implemented by hospital corpsmen under expert tutelage, has received LEAPS recognition from afar.The 2023 Rear Adm. Lewis E. Angelo Professional Symposium [LEAPS] High Reliability Organization poster competition winner in the non-clinical category was...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. ─ Naval Hospital Jacksonville was one of 10 medical facilities chosen to join in the Defense Health Agency’s Targeted Health Care Pilot program, which began in May. The program is in response to the growing need for behavioral health treatment, which has nearly tripled in the last...

Adm. Daryl Caudle, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC), named Operations Specialist 1st Class Kandace Tomkin, of Commander, Task Force 80, as the 2022 USFFC Sea Sailor of the Year (SOY) and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Heather Rufohuse, of United States Marine Corps Forces Command, as the...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (June 1, 2023) – Military and support personal assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio gathered to commemorate the 81st Anniversary of the Battle of Midway at the Tri-Service Research Laboratory.The Battle of Midway, one of the most...