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Welcome to the official website of Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Annapolis!

At NMRTC Annapolis, our mission is to provide a medically ready force – certifying the warfighters that we care for are ready to fight tonight supported by a ready, well-trained medical force. As the former Surgeon General stated, we “provide well-trained People, working as expeditionary medical experts on optimized Platforms operating as cohesive teams demonstrating high reliability Performance to project Medical Power in support of Naval Superiority”. While we are not an operational or expeditionary unit, we are a platform prepared to support expeditionary medicine at any time – and we must ensure our readiness as medical personnel to respond to that call.

Since 1845, NHC Annapolis has been committed to exemplifying the best of Navy Medicine though innovation, quality care, technology, talent management, and leadership. NHC Annapolis provides health support in six locations across three states. At its core is the care and commissioning readiness of the more than 4,400 members of the Brigade of Midshipmen. NHC Annapolis providers contribute to athlete development on and off the field, and support the Naval Academy as team physicians for 33 varsity sports teams and 26 club sports.
 

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Cmdr. (select) Jasette Marian M. Fong, Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist and newly appointed Pediatric Advanced Life Support Program Director at Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms, poses for a photo in front of Robert E. Busch Memorial Hospital at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Jan. 11, 2026. Fong brings more than 16 years of Navy experience to the role and will oversee the hospital’s Pediatric Advanced Life Support program to strengthen pediatric emergency readiness and training. (U.S. Navy photo by Christopher C. Jones, NHTP/NMRTC Twentynine Palms public affairs officer).
Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms Appoints New Pediatric Advanced Life Support Program Director
| Feb. 11, 2026
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. – Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms has appointed Cmdr. (select) Jasette Marian M. Fong as its new Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Program Director, strengthening the hospital’s pediatric...

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Edward Abgevey-Tamakloe is awarded the 2025 Navy Medicine Senior Financial Management Officer of the Year. Agbevey currently serves as the director for resource management with Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune, the readiness platform of Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
NMRTC Camp Lejeune officer honored as Navy Medicine Senior Financial Management Officer of the Year
| Feb. 11, 2026
Paperwork and spreadsheets essential to mission accomplishment fill United States Navy Lieutenant Commander Edward Abgevey-Tamakloe’s physical folders and digital files. Perhaps not the immediate imagery when one thinks of...

Hospitalman Emily Williams serves aboard Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point in the Radiology Department.  Williams, a native of Jacksonville, North Carolina, felt the Navy’s call for her to serve and become a part of something greater than herself.
I Keep the Warfighter in the Fight: Hospitalman Emily Williams
| Feb. 11, 2026
A Sailor serving aboard Naval Health Cherry Point feels that the Navy has called her to serve and become a part of something greater than herself.Hospitalman Emily Williams, a native of Jacksonville, North Carolina, serves...

Lt. Trey Ketchum was recently named the Stanley H. Freed Navy Junior Optometrist of the Year for 2025 while serving with U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC) Guantanamo Bay at U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  Ketchum is a native of Fort Walton Beach, Florida. (U.S. Navy photo by Emily McCamy/released)
Fort Walton Beach Native Named Navy Junior Optometrist of the Year While Serving with Navy Medicine in Cuba
| Feb. 10, 2026
Courtesy story by Lt. j.g. Taylor Worley, Navy Office of Community OutreachMILLINGTON, Tenn. — Lt. Trey Ketchum, a native of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, was recently named the Stanley H. Freed Navy Junior Optometrist of the...

BETHESDA, Md. (Dec. 08, 2025) – Lt. Simon Choi, Assistant Service Chief for the Medical Intensive Care Unit, at Walter Reed National Military Medicine Center (WRNMMC), right, and Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Evan Selinger, left, assigned both assigned to Navy Medical Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Bethesda, provide emergency care as part of the Tactical Combat Casualty Care course testing. The testing marks the culmination of the 63-hour TCCC Combat Medic/Corpsman course, which prepares Navy corpsmen and other military medical personnel to deliver lifesaving trauma care in austere, forward-deployed, and combat environments. NMRTC Bethesda mission is to maximize warfighter performance through optimized medical readiness tailored to operational requirements; enhance the readiness of the medical force to sustain expeditionary medical capability; and train and develop the Navy Medicine Force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Alec Kramer)
NMRTC Bethesda Tests Sailors’ Expeditionary Medical Readiness During TCCC Training
| Feb. 10, 2026
NMRTC Bethesda Tests Sailors’ Expeditionary Medical Readiness During TCCC Training U.S. Navy story by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Alec Kramer BETHESDA, Md. (Feb. 2, 2026) — Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) is...


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