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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, Sailors, left, signs documents after administering the oath of office to Tampa resident, Lt.j.g. Hunter Spencer, center, with Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Richard Yeboah, attached to Navy Talent Acquisition Group (NTAG) Miami, overseeing the transaction executed during a visit to University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, Dec. 4, 2024. Spencer, whose brother, Brogan, participates in USF’s Navy Reserve Officers' Training Corps, joins the fleet as a Navy critical care nurse. 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)