Courtesy story by Ashley Craig, Navy Office of Community OutreachMILLINGTON, Tenn. – U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Adalberto Pantojas, a native of New York City, made an impact while temporarily serving alongside sailors at U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Pantojas, a 2011 graduate of Urban Assembly...

It was nighttime on the I-805 north when a motorcycle went over a median between the H Street and Bonita Road exits, July 12. The crash left Silverio Gurrola injured on the pavement and his wife, Melinda Gurrola, with a traumatic leg amputation. Amid the chaos and speeding cars, U.S. Navy Hospital...

The South Pacific Island nation of Fiji might seem a world away for a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman from Queens, New York.Pacific Partnership 2025 made such a unique opportunity possible.Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Shane Durand recently took part in the Pacific Partnership mission stop which focused...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (July 28, 2025) -- U.S. Navy Reserve medical personnel applied their life-saving skills during a battlefield stress test July 24 at Fort Drum’s Bridgewater-Vaccaro Medical Simulation Training Center (MSTC).The culminating exercise of Operation Commanding Force 2025 required hospital...

SAN DIEGO, CA – July 25, 2025 – Rear Adm. Guido Valdes relinquished command to Rear Adm. Kevin Brown as commander of Naval Medical Forces Pacific (NMFP) and director of the Defense Health Network – Pacific Rim (DHN-PR) during a change of command ceremony at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD)...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – June 24, 2025 – The Comprehensive Integrative Musculoskeletal Care Team from Navy Medical Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Annapolis, embedded at the United States Naval Academy (USNA), has earned top honors from the National Capital Region (NCR) Transitional Year Internship...

LIMÓN, Costa Rica - The Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived in Limón, Costa Rica, July 24, 2025, for the fifth mission stop of Continuing Promise 2025 (CP25).“The Continuing Promise team is excited to be here in Costa Rica and ready to bring medical aid and participate in...

NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga – Cmdr. Christina Carter, a public health nurse currently serving as Director for Public Health at Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms and Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms, recently returned from a temporary assignment to the Kingdom of Tonga in...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas – The Naval Medical Forces Development Command welcomed Lt. Cdr. Angel Camacho to the team as the new director for administration, July 16, 2025.Originally from Ecuador, Camacho moved to Brooklyn, New York, when he was 13 years old and later joined the...

PUERTO PLATA, Dominican Republic - The Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) departed from Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, July 21, 2025, after a four-day mission stop during Continuing Promise 2025 (CP25).At the Dominican mission stop, Comfort’s team provided medical and dental care,...