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Master Chief Petty Officer Robert E. Flowers, incoming command master chief for Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Alpha, receives the ceremonial cutlass from Navy Capt. Kenneth R. Basford, commanding officer of EMF 150 Alpha, during a change of charge ceremony held March 12, 2025, at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton. The cutlass symbolizes the authority of the command master chief and is passed to the commanding officer who then passes it to the incoming command master chief indicating a change of responsibility from the outgoing and incoming senior enlisted leaders of the command. For 250 years, Navy Medicine has navigated the globe, actively rendering assistance to our warfighters by keeping them healthy and sustaining their readiness requirements to stay in the fight.
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