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From left to right, Rear Adm. Walter Brafford, Chief of the Navy Dental Corps, commander of Naval Medical Forces Support Command (NMFSC), Rear Adm. Darin Via, Navy Surgeon General, Chief of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), Rear Adm. Rick Freedman, Deputy Surgeon General, Deputy Chief of BUMED, and Rear Adm. Robert Hawkins, Director of the Navy Nurse Corps poses for a photo after a group promotion ceremony at BUMED headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia, on December 6, 2023. Brafford, a native of Lebanon, Missouri; Via, a native of Sullivan, Illinois; Freedman, a native of Philadelphia; and Hawkins a native of Liverpool, New York, received U.S. Senate confirmation in their respective ranks and roles on December 5, 2023.
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