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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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AGANA HEIGHTS (Dec.17, 2025) – Hospitalman Ojurereoluwa Bamgbade and Hospitalman Golda Viban, assigned to U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Guam, apply a chest seal to a wound on a training manikin during Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) training at U.S. Naval Hospital Guam. The scenario focused on sealing an open chest wound to prevent air from entering the chest, helping stabilize the casualty before continued care or evacuation in a combat environment. (U.S Navy photo Petty Officer 3rd Class Oluwatomiwo Sogaolu). Photo name: 251217-N- EM93 -2060
NMRTC Guam strengthens warfighting medical readiness through TCCC training
| March 19, 2026
AGANA HEIGHTS, Guam (Dec. 17, 2025) - U.S. Navy Sailors completed Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) training at Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Guam on Dec. 17, strengthening the command’s ability to...
SAN ANTONIO – (March 17, 2026) – Dr. Michael McGinnis, executive director of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and director of the Navy Medicine Civilian Corps, served as the moderator for a continuing education panel titled, “Overcoming the Unique Medical Challenges across the Indo-Pacific Theater during the 2026 Annual Operational Medicine Symposium (OpMed) & Technology Showcase held at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center. Panelists included Capt. Niels Olson, Medical Corps, chief medical officer, Human Systems Portfolio, Defense Innovation Unit; Capt. Delbert Clark, Medical Corps, command surgeon, 3rd Marine Division; Capt. Richard Gilliard Jr., Medical Service Corps, commanding officer, U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, Japan; U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Darrin Cox, commanding general, 18th Theater Medical Command; and Dr. Darrin Frye, chief science director, Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio. OpMed is one of the largest and most influential military medical events in North America for senior medical officials, clinicians, government leaders, and solution providers. The symposium explores how the Military Health System is preparing for large scale combat operations by championing innovations in combat casualty care to strengthen warfighter survivability and enhance the medical readiness of the joint force. Navy Medicine is committed to expanding partnerships in the medical field and the importance of sharing best practices, advancing medical capabilities, research and training opportunities. (U.S. Navy photo by Burrell Parmer, NAMRU San Antonio Public Affairs/Released)
Navy Medicine participates in OPMED 2026
| March 18, 2026
SAN ANTONIO – (March 18, 2026) – Senior leaders across the Department of War (DoW), federal government, academia, and industry attended the 2026 Annual Operational Medicine Symposium (OpMed) & Technology Showcase held at the...
Gone but never forgotten...the legacy of Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class David R. Ray, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient (posthumously) and namesake of David R. Ray Branch Health Clinic Everett - killed in action, March 19, 1969, at Phu Loc 6 near An Hoa in Quang Nam Province, Republic of Vietnam - is embodied by staff assigned to the clinic, caring for active duty, retiree and dependent beneficiaries in the greater Naval Station Everett area.
Branch Health Clinic Everett Namesake Remembered
| March 18, 2026
It was a lifetime ago lost of Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class David R. Ray.The Congressional Medal of Honor recipient (posthumously) and namesake of Branch Health Clinic Everett was killed in action, March 19, 1969, at Phu...
SILVER SPRING, Md. (March 18, 2026) The Daniel K. Inouye building at Forest Glen Annex, headquarters for Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC). NMRC, headquarters of Navy Medicine Research & Development, is engaged in a broad spectrum of activity from basic science in the laboratory to field studies in austere and remote areas of the world to investigations in operational environments. In support of Navy, Marine Corps and joint U.S. warfighter health, readiness and lethality, researchers study infectious diseases, biological warfare detection and defense, combat casualty care, environmental health concerns, aerospace and undersea medicine, operational mission support and epidemiology. (U.S. Navy photo by Aleece Williams/ Released)
NMRC Advances Bacteriophage Therapy to Phase 3 Clinical Trial
| March 18, 2026
SILVER SPRING, Md. – Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), in partnership with Armata Pharmaceuticals, has completed a phase 2 clinical trial on a Staphylococcus aureus (Staph A) bacteriophage therapy.The therapy, AP-SA02,...
U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Kenneth Murray III, a Joint Trauma System Valkyrie Prehospital Transfusion course instructor candidate with 2nd Medical Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, conducts a blood transfusion during the first JTS-VPT course at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. 2nd MLG is the first Marine Corps unit certified by the Joint Trauma System as a training site for the JTS-VPT course, which can now be held by 2nd Medical Battalion's Alpha Surgical Company on MCB Camp Lejeune and Bravo Surgical Company in Portsmouth, Virginia. The course focused on learning and practical application of fresh whole blood collection and transfusion for patients in forward-deployed and austere environments utilizing standardized, evidence-based protocols. Murray is a native of Ohio. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Talan Werner)
2nd Marine Logistics Group Hosts "Walking Blood Bank" Training for Enhanced Battlefield Care
| March 18, 2026
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – To enhance life-saving capabilities in combat, 2nd Medical Battalion hosted its inaugural Joint Trauma System Valkyrie Prehospital Transfusion course on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune,...

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