08 March 2023 ORION Program Engages Sailors and Marines To Help Ensure Mental Well-Being A Navy program connecting Sailors and Marines who were involved in or close to a non-combat incident, accident, or suicide, with mental health assistance, has reached more than 2,200 sailors since it’s inception.The program, Organizational Incident Operational Nexus (ORION), began as a pilot program...
07 March 2023 NAMRU San Antonio hosts NMTSC JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (March 7, 2023) – Commanding Officer Capt. Gerald DeLong and staff of Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio hosted a visit from Commanding Officer Capt. Paul Allen and staff of Navy Medicine Training Support Center (NMTSC) at the Battlefield Health...
06 March 2023 Ford Dental Department Gives Advice for Oral Hygiene on National Dentist Day Ford Dental Department Gives Advice for Oral Hygiene on National Dentist DayStory by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jennifer NewsomeUSS Gerald R. Ford Public AffairsATLANTIC OCEAN — Sailors aboard the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) celebrate National Dentist’s...
03 March 2023 Navy Medical Corps 152nd Anniversary celebrated at NMRTC Bremerton It was on March 3, 1871, that 153 U.S. Navy physicians was officially recognized as a staff corps to parallel their professional status with other naval officers.That date was readily acknowledged 152 years later, March 3, 2023, at Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton with an...
24 February 2023 Naval Special Warfare, Naval Medical Center San Diego Enhance Partnership Story by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chelsea D. Meiller, Naval Special Warfare Group 1 Public AffairsCORONADO, Calif. (Feb. 16, 2023) – Naval Special Warfare Group (NSWG) 1 hosted Naval Medical Center San Diego’s (Balboa) Executive Steering Committee – a collection of key leaders and...
24 February 2023 NMRC Participates in Elementary School Career Day SILVER SPRING, Md. - Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) research scientists visited Sargent Shriver Elementary School on Feb. 23 to speak and interact with students during the school’s annual Career Day event.Lt. Yuliya Johnson, an active-duty researcher and Jennetta Green, a Navy civilian...
22 February 2023 WRNMMC Recognizes Navy’s Civilian Pharmacist of the Year, Electronic Medical Records Innovator By Aisha LomaxWalter Reed National Military Medical CenterMylan Tran and retired Army Lt. Col. Johnnie Jackson received special recognitions during Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s monthly town hall meeting on Feb. 14.Tran received her award for being named the U.S. Navy’s Civilian...
22 February 2023 NMRC Observes Prolonged Casualty Care Training Junior officers from Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) traveled to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton to observe Navy hospital corpsmen assigned to the 1st Marine Division (MARDIV) conduct tactical combat casualty care during a Combat Trauma Management course on January 30th.NMRC sent four...
17 February 2023 The Hospital Corpsmen of Iwo Jima: Stories of Valor and Sacrifice At 0900 on February 19th, 1945, the first assault waves from the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions hit the beaches of Iwo Jima. Embedded within these units were corpsmen like Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class Stanley Dabrowski, of New Britain, Conn., who remembered the “tremendous noise,” concussion of...
16 February 2023 Drilling to the Tooth Truth at NMRTC Bremerton Lets drill to the tooth truth.Try not to gnash, grind, or grate your teeth that Feb. 9, 2023, was National Toothache Day. As uncomfortable as it might be for some to acknowledge that such a date actually exists, dental health and hygiene are imperative and directly linked to every command’s...