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- SILVER SPRING, Md. (Feb. 26, 2025) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Maegan Dull (center), and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Alejandra Ramirez Alarcon, with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), demonstrates the use of a prop biocontainment unit with students from Sargent Shriver Elementary School at the school’s annual Career Day. Representatives from NMRC spent the day with 3rd, 4th and 5th graders answering questions, discussing careers within Navy Medicine and demonstrating laboratory equipment. NMRC is engaged in a broad spectrum of activities, from basic science in the laboratory to field studies in austere and remote areas of the world to investigations in operational environments. In support of the Navy, Marine Corps, and joint U.S. warfighters, researchers study infectious diseases, biological warfare detection and defense, combat casualty care, environmental health concerns, aerospace and undersea medicine, medical modeling, simulation, operational mission support, epidemiology and behavioral sciences. (U.S. Navy photo by Elliott Page /Released)