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JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Aug. 3, 2023) – Capt. William Deniston (right), commander, Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), joined by Capt. Gerald DeLong, commanding officer, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, and Capt. Robert Hawkins (left), director, J3/5/7, Defense Health Agency (DHA) and director, U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, attended a command briefing on NAMRU San Antonio’s core capabilities at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute. 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)