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YOKOSUKA, JAPAN

YOKOSUKA, Japan (Feb. 20, 2025) U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Yokosuka personnel transport a simulated patient to USNH Yokosuka during a mass casualty drill. USNH Yokosuka and 374th Medical Group from Yokota conducted a surgical team assist and medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) operation during the joint mass casualty drill. The drill tested the efficiency of transporting a surgeon from Yokosuka to Yokota via 459th Airlift Squadron while simultaneously evacuating a Yokota-based trauma patient to a higher level of care in Yokosuka. (U.S. Navy photo by Daniel Taylor/USNMRTC Yokosuka Public Affairs) Share

YOKOSUKA, JAPAN

YOKOSUKA, Japan (Feb. 20, 2025) A UH-1N Huey assigned to the 459th Airlift Squadron from Yokota Air Base prepares to depart from Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka’s helipad in support of an exercise between U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Yokosuka and 374th Medical Group from Yokota. USNH Yokosuka and 374th Medical Group conducted a surgical team assist and medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) operation during a joint mass casualty drill. The drill tested the efficiency of transporting a surgeon from Yokosuka to Yokota via 459th Airlift Squadron while simultaneously evacuating a Yokota-based trauma patient to a higher level of care in Yokosuka. (U.S. Navy photo by Daniel Taylor/USNMRTC Yokosuka Public Affairs) Share

YOKOSUKA, JAPAN

YOKOSUKA, Japan (Feb. 20, 2025) Lt. Cmdr. Alana Noritake, general surgeon at U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka, prepares to board a UH-1N Huey assigned to the 459th Airlift Squadron from Yokota Air Base during a mass casualty drill. U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Yokosuka and Yokota's 374th Medical Group conducted a surgical team assist and medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) operation during a joint mass casualty drill. The drill tested the efficiency of transporting a surgeon from Yokosuka to Yokota via 459th Airlift Squadron while simultaneously evacuating a Yokota-based trauma patient to a higher level of care in Yokosuka. (U.S. Navy photo by Daniel Taylor/USNMRTC Yokosuka Public Affairs) Share

YOKOSUKA, JAPAN

YOKOSUKA, Japan (Feb. 20, 2025) U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 374th Medical Group transfer a simulated patient to U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Yokosuka during a mass casualty drill. USNH Yokosuka and 374th Medical Group from Yokota conducted a surgical team assist and medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) operation during the joint mass casualty drill. The drill tested the efficiency of transporting a surgeon from Yokosuka to Yokota via 459th Airlift Squadron while simultaneously evacuating a Yokota-based trauma patient to a higher level of care in Yokosuka. (U.S. Navy photo by Daniel Taylor/USNMRTC Yokosuka Public Affairs) Share

YOKOSUKA, JAPAN

YOKOSUKA, Japan (Feb. 20, 2025) U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 374th Medical Group transport a simulated patient from a UH-1N Huey assigned to the 459th Airlift Squadron from Yokota Air Base. U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Yokosuka and 374th Medical Group from Yokota conducted a surgical team assist and medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) operation during a joint mass casualty drill. The drill tested the efficiency of transporting a surgeon from Yokosuka to Yokota via 459th Airlift Squadron while simultaneously evacuating a Yokota-based trauma patient to a higher level of care in Yokosuka. (U.S. Navy photo by Daniel Taylor/USNMRTC Yokosuka Public Affairs) Share

YOKOSUKA, JAPAN

YOKOSUKA, Japan (Feb. 20, 2025) A UH-1N Huey assigned to the 459th Airlift Squadron from Yokota Air Base prepares to land at Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka’s helipad in support of an exercise between U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Yokosuka and 374th Medical Group from Yokota. USNH Yokosuka and 374th Medical Group conducted a surgical team assist and medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) operation for a joint mass casualty drill. The drill tested the efficiency of transporting a surgeon from Yokosuka to Yokota via 459th Airlift Squadron while simultaneously evacuating a Yokota-based trauma patient to a higher level of care in Yokosuka. (U.S. Navy photo by Daniel Taylor/USNMRTC Yokosuka Public Affairs) Share

Silver Spring, MD

SILVER SPRING, Md. (Feb. 26, 2025) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Maegan Dull, with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), demonstrates the use of a prop biocontainment unit with students from Sargent Shriver Elementary School at the school’s annual Career Day. Representatives from NMRC spent the day with 3rd, 4th and 5th graders answering questions, discussing careers within Navy Medicine and demonstrating laboratory equipment. NMRC is engaged in a broad spectrum of activities, 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 the Navy, Marine Corps, and joint U.S. warfighters, researchers study infectious diseases, biological warfare detection and defense, combat casualty care, environmental health concerns, aerospace and undersea medicine, medical modeling, simulation, operational mission support, epidemiology and behavioral sciences. (U.S. Navy photo by Elliott Page /Released) Share

Silver Spring, MD

SILVER SPRING, Md. (Feb. 26, 2025) Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Keiry Martinez-Ramos. with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), speaks with students from Sargent Shriver Elementary School at the school’s annual Career Day. Representatives from NMRC spent the day with 3rd, 4th and 5th graders answering questions, discussing careers within Navy Medicine and demonstrating laboratory equipment. NMRC is engaged in a broad spectrum of activities, 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 the Navy, Marine Corps, and joint U.S. warfighters, researchers study infectious diseases, biological warfare detection and defense, combat casualty care, environmental health concerns, aerospace and undersea medicine, medical modeling, simulation, operational mission support, epidemiology and behavioral sciences. (U.S. Navy photo by Sidney Hinds /Released) Share

Silver Spring, MD

SILVER SPRING, Md. (Feb. 26, 2025) Sidney Hinds, with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), speaks with students from Sargent Shriver Elementary School at the school’s annual Career Day. Representatives from NMRC spent the day with 3rd, 4th and 5th graders answering questions, discussing careers within Navy Medicine and demonstrating laboratory equipment. NMRC is engaged in a broad spectrum of activities, 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 the Navy, Marine Corps, and joint U.S. warfighters, researchers study infectious diseases, biological warfare detection and defense, combat casualty care, environmental health concerns, aerospace and undersea medicine, medical modeling, simulation, operational mission support, epidemiology and behavioral sciences. (U.S. Navy photo by Elliott Page /Released) Share

Silver Spring, MD

- SILVER SPRING, Md. (Feb. 26, 2025) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Maegan Dull (center), and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Alejandra Ramirez Alarcon, with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), demonstrates the use of a prop biocontainment unit with students from Sargent Shriver Elementary School at the school’s annual Career Day. Representatives from NMRC spent the day with 3rd, 4th and 5th graders answering questions, discussing careers within Navy Medicine and demonstrating laboratory equipment. NMRC is engaged in a broad spectrum of activities, 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 the Navy, Marine Corps, and joint U.S. warfighters, researchers study infectious diseases, biological warfare detection and defense, combat casualty care, environmental health concerns, aerospace and undersea medicine, medical modeling, simulation, operational mission support, epidemiology and behavioral sciences. (U.S. Navy photo by Elliott Page /Released) Share

Silver Spring, MD

SILVER SPRING, Md. (Feb. 26, 2025) Staff with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), interact with students from Sargent Shriver Elementary School at the school’s annual Career Day. Representatives from NMRC spent the day with 3rd, 4th and 5th graders answering questions, discussing careers within Navy Medicine and demonstrating laboratory equipment. NMRC is engaged in a broad spectrum of activities, 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 the Navy, Marine Corps, and joint U.S. warfighters, researchers study infectious diseases, biological warfare detection and defense, combat casualty care, environmental health concerns, aerospace and undersea medicine, medical modeling, simulation, operational mission support, epidemiology and behavioral sciences. (U.S. Navy photo by Elliott Page /Released) Share

San Antonio, TX

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON - (Feb. 25, 2025) – Rear Adm. Matthew Case, director, U.S. Navy Medical Service Corps, presented director coins to Army Sergeants Carlos Torres and Samantha Salas assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio’s Research Services Directorate during a tour of unit facilities at the Tri-Service Research Laboratory. Case, who additional serves as the director of the Navy Medical Service Corps, visited NAMRU San Antonio to better understand the unit’s mission, capabilities, and impact to Navy Medicine. Torres was Navy Medical Research and Development’s (NMR&D) 2024 Solider of the year and Salas was Solider of the Quarter (3rd Quarter 2024). NAMRU San Antonio is one of eight research laboratories within Navy Medicine Research and Development. Its mission is to conduct gap driven combat casualty care, craniofacial, and directed energy research to improve survival, operational readiness, and safety of Department of Defense personnel engaged in routine and expeditionary operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Cmdr. Nicholas Hamlin, NAMRU San Antonio/Released) Share