Watching the 9/11 terrorist attack unfold over 20 years ago brought a Casper, Wyoming native from the Rockies to Navy Nurse Corps ranks.Lt. James Kirlin, Natrona County High School graduate class of 2002, has gone from Naval Aviation to Navy Medicine in a career path defined by operations undertaken...

Ensign Gemelin Lozada and Chief Hospital Corpsman Melinda Canales are a mother-daughter duo currently embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), now underway for Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22).For Canales, who has served 19 years in the U.S. Navy, PP22 may be...

NMCP HOLDS 37TH ANNUAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH COMPETITIONThe 37th Annual Academic Research Competition (ARC) was held the week of May 2 with the winners of each phase of the competition announced during a ceremony, May 6.There were three phases to the competition throughout the week with a poster...

Inclement weather didn’t put a damper on Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Decontamination Team in successfully conducting and concluding a DECON certification course, May 5, 2022.Under less-than-ideal rainy conditions, NHB’s DECON team members were collectively and individually tested in being able to...

The U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) announced Navy Medicine's fiscal year 2021 Sailor of the Year (SOY) at Defense Health Headquarters, May 5.Rear Adm. Bruce L. Gillingham, Surgeon General of the Navy and Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and Force Master Chief Michael J...

Medical Power begins with people on optimized platforms operating as cohesive teams demonstrating high reliability performance.This is the very foundation of Navy Medicine. And few people illustrate this better than Lt. Cmdr. Daniel Hammer.Through his work as a Navy dentist, maxillofacial surgical...

Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) departed San Diego, May 3, marking the beginning of Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22).Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in...

When the Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) Douglas R4D broke through the clouds of volcanic dust and smoke to land on Iwo Jima on March 6 1945, it carried more than whole blood and medical supplies for the wounded. On board this inaugural air evacuation flight was a 22-year old nurse named Jane...

MILLINGTON, Tenn. – For those interested in a career in the medical field, the Navy has the Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) to help fund graduate-level professional schooling—all the way through residency. After graduation, scholarship recipients will become officers and professionals...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (April 28, 2022) –Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) staff used their expertise as care providers in a unique way on April 28. Instead of caring for the sick and wounded, they were educating and inspiring the future of our country.NMCP has partnered with Manor High School in...