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San Antonio, TX

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON - (Feb. 25, 2025) – Dr. John Simecek, director, Craniofacial Health and Restorative Medicine, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, briefs research on an in-house design of an amalgam separator for dental chairs to Rear Adm. Matthew Case, director, U.S. Navy Medical Service Corps at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute. 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. 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 Burrell Parmer, NAMRU San Antonio Public Affairs/Released) Share

San Antonio, TX

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON - (Feb. 25, 2025) – Dr. Daniel Thompson (left), a research scientist assigned to Craniofacial Health and Restorative Medicine, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, briefs research on BoneTape implants to Rear Adm. Matthew Case, director, U.S. Navy Medical Service Corps at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute. 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. 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 Burrell Parmer, NAMRU San Antonio Public Affairs/Released) Share

San Antonio, TX

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON - (Feb. 25, 2025) – Andres Martinez Murillo, a biomedical engineer assigned to Combat Casualty Care and Operational Medicine, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, talks about tactical combat casualty care (TCCC) treatments on a trauma manikin in extreme cold with Rear Adm. Matthew Case, director, U.S. Navy Medical Service Corps at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute. 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. 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 Burrell Parmer, NAMRU San Antonio Public Affairs/Released) Share

San Antonio, TX

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON - (Feb. 25, 2025) – Andres Martinez Murillo, a biomedical engineer assigned to Combat Casualty Care and Operational Medicine, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, joined by research scientist Tarea Burton, briefs the capabilities of a portable ozone sterilizer to Rear Adm. Matthew Case, the Defense Health Agency’s (DHA) acting assistant director, Health Administration (AD-HCA) at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute. The purpose of Case’s visit was to better understand NAMRU San Antonio 's mission, capabilities, and impact to Navy Medicine. 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 Burrell Parmer, NAMRU San Antonio Public Affairs/Released) Share

San Diego, CA

SAN DIEGO (Nov. 20, 2024) Naval Health Research Center’s (NHRC) Rapid Response Surveillance (RRS) team works to equip Navy leaders with information to better anticipate common service member stressors, with the goal of helping commands offer targeted resources and support. NHRC supports military mission readiness with research and development that delivers high-value, high-impact solutions to the health and readiness challenges our military population faces on the battlefield, at sea, on foreign shores and at home. For 250 years, Navy Medicine – represented by more than 44,000 highly-trained military and civilian healthcare professionals – has delivered quality healthcare and enduring expeditionary medical support to the warfighter on, below, and above the sea, and ashore. (U.S. Navy photo by Danielle Cazarez/released) Share

Cherry Point, NC

Mr. Edward Sorzano, center right with certificate, stands with the Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point Radiology Team on Wednesday, February 19, 2025. Sorzano is a “Plank Owner” of the organization, having served at the clinic during its first year of operation in 2007. He retired from the clinic in late February after more than two decades of service as a General Schedule Civilian. During his time there, he helped train more than 100 Radiology students from Carteret Community College while increasing the department’s radiology capabilities to include Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computed Tomography. Share

Cherry Point, NC

The “Plank Owner” certificate presented to Mr. Edward Sorzano on October 1, 2007 for his service aboard Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point during its first year of operation. He retired from the clinic in late February after more than two decades of service as a General Schedule Civilian. During his time there, he helped train more than 100 Radiology students from Carteret Community College while increasing the department’s radiology capabilities to include Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computed Tomography. Share

Cherry Point, NC

r. Edward Sorzano, Department Head of Radiology aboard Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point, is a “Plank Owner” of the organization, having served at the clinic during its first year of operation in 2007. He retired from the clinic in late February after more than two decades of service as a General Schedule Civilian. During his time there, he helped train more than 100 Radiology students from Carteret Community College while increasing the department’s radiology capabilities to include Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computed Tomography. Share

Joshua Tree National Park, CA

Sailors from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms and Marines from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton rappel down a rock face during a resilience-building event at Joshua Tree National Park, Feb. 5, 2025. The event, organized to enhance spiritual fitness and mental fortitude, challenged participants with rock climbing, caving, and rappelling in the park’s rugged terrain (U.S. Navy photo by Christopher C. Jones, NHTP/NMRTC Twentynine Palms public affairs officer). Share

Joshua Tree National Park, CA

Sailors from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms and Marines from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton participate in rock climbing during a resilience-building event at Joshua Tree National Park, Feb. 5, 2025. The event pushed participants to overcome physical and mental challenges through rock climbing, rappelling, and caving, fostering teamwork and perseverance in the park’s rugged landscape (U.S. Navy photo by Christopher C. Jones, NHTP/NMRTC Twentynine Palms public affairs officer). Share

Joshua Tree National Park, CA

Hospitalman 1st Class Raquel Patino, from Van Nuys, Calif., with Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms, rappels down a rock face during a resilience-building event at Joshua Tree National Park, Feb. 5, 2025. The event, organized to enhance spiritual fitness and mental fortitude, challenged participants with rock climbing, caving, and rappelling in the park’s rugged terrain (U.S. Navy photo by Christopher C. Jones, NHTP/NMRTC Twentynine Palms public affairs officer). Share

Joshua Tree National Park, CA

Sailors from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms and Marines from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton participate in rock climbing during a resilience-building event at Joshua Tree National Park, Feb. 5, 2025. The event pushed participants to overcome physical and mental challenges through rock climbing, rappelling, and caving, fostering teamwork and perseverance in the park’s rugged landscape (U.S. Navy photo by Christopher C. Jones, NHTP/NMRTC Twentynine Palms public affairs officer). Share