28 February 2024 Making injury prevention a HABIT: Virtual CNATRA app first of its kind to aid in head and back injury prevention Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA) has renewed focus in researching, developing and implementing leading edge training technologies in the production of Naval Aviators. Throughout the history of naval air training, pilots utilize continuously evolving tools, hardware and wearable protective gear...
22 February 2024 Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Military Manpower and Personnel) Visits Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit FIVE SAN DIEGO, Ca – Ms. Lisa M. Truesdale, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy (military manpower and personnel) and assistant secretary of the Navy (manpower and reserve affairs) visited Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit FIVE (NEPMU-5) on Wednesday, February 14.During her visit,...
12 February 2024 NMRC Commander holds Navy Medical R&D Enterprise All Hands JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Feb. 8, 2024) – Capt. Franca Jones, commander, Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), held a NMRC Enterprise All Hands at the Military and Family Readiness Center during her visit to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio.Jones spoke on numerous...
29 January 2024 Understanding the POW Experience: Navy Research Psychologist Graduates SERE School It’s dusk and you are alone in the forest. It’s been two hours since you were forced to eject from your aircraft, which turned into a fiery ball of metal after being hit by an enemysurface to air missile. You are shaken and lost, but still mobile. This is when your training and mental preparation...
26 January 2024 U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales recognizes Navy Chiefs for taking Care of One of Their Own JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Jan. 25, 2024) – “By experience, by performance, and by testing, you have been advanced to chief petty officer. In the United States Navy – and only in the United States Navy – the rank of E7 carries with it unique responsibilities and privileges you are...
25 January 2024 BUMED FORCM Mangaran visits Navy Hospital Corpsman "A" & "C" Schools JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Jan. 25, 2024) – Force Master Chief PatrickPaul Mangaran, director, Hospital Corps, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), joined by Master Chiefs Hospital Corpsman Hansen LaFoucade, deputy director, Hospital Corps and Leslie Giuy, lead hospital...