31 August 2017 US-ROK Construction Battalions Complete Airfield Damage Repair Exercise Sailors from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Three (NMCB3) Detachment Okinawa completed the annual Airfield Damage Repair (ADR) exercise with engineers from Republic of Korea Air Wing Six (AW6) at Pohang Airfield August 24...
31 August 2017 Wanted: A New Way to Find Pilots for U.S. Navy Unmanned Aircraft Georgia Tech and the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute, sponsored by the ONR are sponsoring the development of a series of new specialized tests to assess cognitive abilities and personality traits, and identify potential Navy and Marine Corps unmanned aviation systems (UAS) operators...
31 August 2017 Newborn Screenings: Protecting Children Newborn screenings identify conditions that can affect children's long-term health or survival. Each year, millions of babies in the U.S. are routinely screened for certain genetic, endocrine, and metabolic disorders...
31 August 2017 NHRC Researchers Discuss Injured Warfighters' Quality of Life at MHSRS During the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) Aug. 29, researchers from the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) shared findings from a recent report that described quality of life outcomes for combat-injured amputees...
31 August 2017 A Journalistic Endeavor Country music fills the room, a computer screen flashes with text as bells chime over the 1MC, letting Sailors know its chow time, but all of that is just background noise...
30 August 2017 CNO, MCPON Work Out with Navy Capital Region Chiefs and Chief Selects Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. John Richardson, and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, Steven Giordano, gathered with chief petty officers (CPO) and CPO selects from commands throughout the National Capital Region for a physical training session at the Washington Navy Yard Fitness Center...
30 August 2017 NHRC Research Protects US Military Recruits from Respiratory Illness Researchers from the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) discussed ongoing surveillance for the adenovirus, a contagious pathogen that causes respiratory illness, among U.S. military recruits during basic training at the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHRSRS), Aug. 27...
30 August 2017 NHRC Researcher Studies Link Between Injury, Fitness Dr. Karen Kelly, a physiologist with the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC), discussed her recent work examining the relationship between training requirements, fitness and musculoskeletal injuries, during a breakout session at the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS), Aug. 30...
30 August 2017 The Grey Ghost: Inside the narrow steel haven, Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum volunteer and Navy veteran Sid Busch stands as the captain of this retired vessel. Clamagore is, for Busch, more than a giant steel tube. Inside a time capsule of days past, memories drift on his mind like a cool breeze as waves...
30 August 2017 A Virtual First for Orthopedics in Navy Medicine Cmdr. Joe Carney, division head for the Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) Complex Surgical Sports Team, sat in his small office as he examined his patient, a 29-year-old Army officer suffering from a Femoral Acetabular Impingement (FAI)...