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Tampa, FL

TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 4, 2024) Retired North Carolina Air National Guard Lt. Col. Alicia Rossiter, chief officer military and veterans affairs, University of Southern Florida (USF) College of Nursing, speaks with U.S. Navy Surgeon General and Chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Rear Adm. Darin K. Via during a visit to the Tampa campus, Dec. 4, 2024. USF hosted Navy Medicine leadership and NTAG Miami Sailors, for an opportunity to engage with students, highlight the benefits of naval service, and strengthen their partnership. Navy Medicine – represented by more than 44,000 highly-trained military and civilian health care professionals – provides enduring expeditionary medical support to the warfighter on, below, and above the sea, and ashore. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Natalia Murillo) Share

Tampa, FL

TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 4, 2024) University of South Florida (USF) President Rhea Law, JD, and Navy Talent Acquisition Group (NTAG) Miami Sailors pose for a photo making the USF Bulls mascot hand sign during a visit to the Tampa campus, Dec. 4, 2024. USF Navy Medicine leadership and NTAG Miami Sailors, for an opportunity to engage with students, highlight the benefits of naval service, and strengthen their partnership. Navy Medicine – represented by more than 44,000 highly-trained military and civilian health care professionals – provides enduring expeditionary medical support to the warfighter on, below, and above the sea, and ashore. NTAG Miami has 38 recruiting locations throughout South Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with the combined mission to recruit the highest caliber Sailors to meet the needs of the fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Natalia Murillo) Share

Tampa, FL

TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 4, 2024) U.S. Navy Surgeon General and Chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Rear Adm. Darin K. Via, Navy Medicine leadership and Sailors attached to Navy Talent Acquisition Group (NTAG) Miami meet with University of South Florida (USF) key leadership during a visit to the Tampa campus, Dec. 4, 2024. USF hosted Navy Medicine leadership and NTAG Miami Sailors for an opportunity to engage with students, highlight the benefits of naval service, and strengthen their partnership. Navy Medicine – represented by more than 44,000 highly-trained military and civilian health care professionals – provides enduring expeditionary medical support to the warfighter on, below, and above the sea, and ashore. NTAG Miami has 38 recruiting locations throughout South Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with the combined mission to recruit the highest caliber Sailors to meet the needs of the fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Natalia Murillo) Share

Tampa, FL

TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 4, 2024) U.S. Navy Surgeon General and Chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Rear Adm. Darin K. Via, Navy Medicine leadership and Sailors attached to Navy Talent Acquisition Group (NTAG) Miami meet with University of South Florida (USF) key leadership during a visit to the Tampa campus, Dec. 4, 2024. USF hosted Navy Medicine leadership and NTAG Miami Sailors for an opportunity to engage with students, highlight the benefits of naval service, and strengthen their partnership. Navy Medicine – represented by more than 44,000 highly-trained military and civilian health care professionals – provides enduring expeditionary medical support to the warfighter on, below, and above the sea, and ashore. NTAG Miami has 38 recruiting locations throughout South Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with the combined mission to recruit the highest caliber Sailors to meet the needs of the fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Natalia Murillo) Share

Tampa, FL

TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 4, 2024) U.S. Navy Surgeon General and Chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Rear Adm. Darin K. Via gives a challenge coin to University of South Florida (USF) President Rhea Law, JD, during a visit to the Tampa campus, Dec. 4, 2024. USF hosted Navy Medicine leadership and Navy Talent Acquisition Group (NTAG) Miami Sailors, for an opportunity to engage with students, highlight the benefits of naval service, and strengthen their partnership. Navy Medicine – represented by more than 44,000 highly-trained military and civilian health care professionals – provides enduring expeditionary medical support to the warfighter on, below, and above the sea, and ashore. NTAG Miami has 38 recruiting locations throughout South Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with the combined mission to recruit the highest caliber Sailors to meet the needs of the fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Natalia Murillo) Share

Tampa, FL

TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 4, 2024) U.S. Navy Surgeon General and Chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Rear Adm. Darin K. Via is greeted by Dr. Charles J. Lockwood, executive vice president for University of Southern Florida (USF), Health, and dean, USF Morsani College of Medicine, center, and Donald E Mullins, assistant vice president, Health affairs and government relations and deputy chief of staff, USF Health, right, upon his arrival to the Tampa campus, Dec. 4, 2024. USF hosted Navy Medicine leadership and Navy Talent Acquisition Group (NTAG) Miami Sailors, for an opportunity to engage with students, highlight the benefits of naval service, and strengthen their partnership. Navy Medicine – represented by more than 44,000 highly-trained military and civilian health care professionals – provides enduring expeditionary medical support to the warfighter on, below, and above the sea, and ashore. NTAG Miami has 38 recruiting locations throughout South Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with the combined mission to recruit the highest caliber Sailors to meet the needs of the fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Natalia Murillo) Share

Bremerton. WA

Let there be light…Naval Hospital Bremerton’s tree lighting ceremony officially illuminated the holidays at the military treatment facility, December 10, 2024. NHB has kept a symbolic light on for those active-duty staff members over the years who have been deployed during the holidays, signifying with the command’s annual event. The tree-lighting is a long-established custom representing light, faith and hope which embodies the entire ceremony. The lights which adorn the tree are reminders of how the light of faith can dispel the darkness of a person’s fears, uncertainty and isolation. The tree itself, with the branches arching towards the heavens, has been a sign of faith for many throughout the ages. As a ‘tree of life,’ it endures the seasonal cycle from life to death to life again, inviting those attending to experience the spiritual renewal and hope that the holidays offer. The ceremony also included a visit by Santa, courtesy of Cris Larsen, notable local civic leader active with the Bremerton Chamber of Commerce Armed Forces Festival (Official Navy photo by Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton public affairs officer) Share

Bremerton. WA

Sharing a Santa Smile…Hospitalman Rayven Palmer, assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton takes an impromptu moment for a photo-op with visiting Santa, courtesy of Cris Larsen, notable local civic leader active with the Bremerton Chamber of Commerce Armed Forces Festival, who joined in the command’s annual tree lighting ceremony, December 10, 2024. The command has kept a symbolic light on with the event for those active-duty staff members over the years who have been deployed during the holidays. The tree-lighting is a long-established custom representing light, faith and hope which embodies the entire ceremony. The lights which adorn the tree are reminders of how the light of faith can dispel the darkness of a person’s fears, uncertainty and isolation. The tree itself, with the branches arching towards the heavens, has been a sign of faith for many throughout the ages. As a ‘tree of life,’ it endures the seasonal cycle from life to death to life again, inviting those attending to experience the spiritual renewal and hope that the holidays offer. And sharing a smile with Santa (Official Navy photo by Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton public affairs officer). Share

USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109)

U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (Dec. 1, 2024) A U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman instructs a medical training class aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. (Official U.S. Navy photo) Share

Naval Air Station Whidbey Island

Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Justin Wilcox, assigned to Search and Rescue (SAR) at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, sits in the cabin of an MH-60S Seahawk at NAS Whidbey Island, Wash., Nov. 18, 2024. SAR was preparing for a simulated medical evacuation. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jacquelin Frost) Share

Hokkaido, Japan

U.S. Navy Hospitalman 3rd Class Marcela Trejoespinoza calls in a medical evacuation 9-line while executing a mass casualty drill during Artillery Relocation Training Program 24.2 at the Yausubetsu Maneuver Area, Hokkaido, Japan, Sept. 20, 2024. ARTP, established by the 1997 Special Action Committee in Okinawa, relocates live-fire artillery training from Okinawa to mainland Japan to maintain readiness of the Marine Corps’ only permanently forward-deployed artillery unit. Trejoespinoza, a native of California, is a corpsman with 3d Battalion, 12th Marines, 3d Marine Division. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew Morales) Share

USS Frank Cable (AS 40)

APRA HARBOR, Guam (Nov. 15, 2024) From left, Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Carl Singletary, assigned to the Emory S. Land-class submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40), Cmdr. Lynita Mullins, senior medical officer of Frank Cable, and Greg Wilcock, Australian Consul-General in Honolulu, discuss the ship’s medical capabilities during a tour, Nov. 15. Frank Cable is supporting the U.S. 7th Fleet, the U.S. Navy’s largest forward deployed numbered fleet, operating with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region. Frank Cable, forward-deployed to the island of Guam, repairs, rearms, and re-provisions submarines and surface vessels in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Karri Langerman) Share