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JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Aug. 3, 2023) – Capt. Robert Hawkins (center-left), director, J3/5/7, Defense Health Agency (DHA) and director, U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, speaks on the culture of Navy Medicine and Navy Medical Research during a visit to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio. He, along with Capt. William Deniston, commander, Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), received a tour of NAMRU San Antonio facilities at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute and Tri-Service Research Laboratory. NAMRU San Antonio’s 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 (DoD) personnel engaged in routine and expeditionary operations. It is one of the leading research and development laboratories for the U.S. Navy under the DoD and is one of eight subordinate research commands in the global network of laboratories operating under NMRC in Silver Spring, Md. (U.S. Navy photo by Burrell Parmer, NAMRU San Antonio Public Affairs/Released)