For Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham, Navy surgeon general and chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, one of the fundamental principles of his prioritized guidance has been a crucial part of his career spanning nearly four decadesGillingham took the opportunity to remind everyone of that – and more -...

ATLANTIC OCEAN – Fleet Surgical Team (FST) 2 joined the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) as the ship departed Norfolk to support the United States Agency for International Development/Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/BHA) led humanitarian assistance...

Service before self.That mindset has become the hallmark during Yeoman 1st Class Zakeyia E. Vickers in her assignment to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Bremerton.She has helped innumerable staff navigate the U.S. Navy’s official paperwork, administration and correspondence.For...

Capt. Shannon J. Johnson handed over duties and responsibilities of Naval Hospital Bremerton (NHB) and Naval Medical Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Bremerton to Capt. Patrick Fitzpatrick on August 20, 2021.Johnson’s two-year tenure was notable by her leadership over the last 18 months,...

From uniforms and branding to wall decorations and command seals, Navy Medicine is steeped in symbolism. Oak leaves, acorns and caducei adorn the collars and sleeves of Navy medical personnel. Red Crosses emblazon our white-hulled hospital ships. Images of triumphant eagles and fouled anchors and...

The call comes in at night. Three women in the rugged terrain of the Sierra Nevada mountain range on the California/Nevada divide need help. Conditions are cold, dark and windy. The members of VX-31, the search and rescue unit aboard the Naval Air Weapons Station in Ridgecrest, California, scramble...

Sailors assigned to the dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41) hosted a mass casualty drill as part of Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 2021 while pierside at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Aug. 14-15.The drill, which started with a simulated helicopter crash and resulting casualties, took...

MILLINGTON, Tenn. – Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Johnathan J. Shewchuk and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Brian T. Beale, both Navy Casualty morticians from Navy Personnel Command (NPC) stationed in Guam, were recognized for their accomplishments via phone call Aug. 11.Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham,...

SAN DIEGO – Capt. Kim Davis, Naval Medical Center San Diego’s (NMCSD) commanding officer, received the San Diego Military Advisory Council’s (SDMAC) 2021 Nancy Dix Achievement Award on behalf of the hospital during their 14th Annual Achievement Awards ceremony at the Admiral Kidd Catering and...

For the preventive medicine technicians (PMT) assigned to Naval Hospital Bremerton, the Secretary of Defense all-hands memorandum came as no sudden surprise.In addressing all Department of Defense (DoD) employees, Secretary Lloyd Austin stated he will ask the president, no later than the middle of...