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JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON - (Feb. 25, 2025) – Andres Martinez Murillo, a biomedical engineer assigned to Combat Casualty Care and Operational Medicine, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, joined by research scientist Tarea Burton, briefs the capabilities of a portable ozone sterilizer to Rear Adm. Matthew Case, the Defense Health Agency’s (DHA) acting assistant director, Health Administration (AD-HCA) at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute. The purpose of Case’s visit was to better understand NAMRU San Antonio 's mission, capabilities, and impact to Navy Medicine. NAMRU San Antonio is one of eight research laboratories within Navy Medicine Research and Development. Its 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 personnel engaged in routine and expeditionary operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Burrell Parmer, NAMRU San Antonio Public Affairs/Released)