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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, talks about tactical combat casualty care (TCCC) treatments on a trauma manikin in extreme cold with Rear Adm. Matthew Case, director, U.S. Navy Medical Service Corps at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute. Case, who additional serves as the director of the Navy Medical Service Corps, visited NAMRU San Antonio to better understand the unit’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)