18 July 2022 Teddy Roosevelt, Navy Medicine and the Birth of Physical Readiness FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Today’s U.S. Navy espouses a “culture of fitness,” and “physical readiness,” but this was not always the case. In the early 1900s, many including the president himself, Theodore Roosevelt, were appalled by the lack of physical conditioning in the Navy...
14 July 2022 NAVCENT Adds Resiliency Resources to Bahrain Waterfront for Sailors MANAMA, Bahrain - U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) unveiled a resiliency center July 13 that now provides more services to Sailors and Coast Guardsmen who are stationed in Bahrain...
13 July 2022 Get the Kinks out with NHB’s Chiropractor BREMERTON, Wash. - An appointment with Naval Hospital Bremerton’s chiropractor is just a referral away for active duty service members...
13 July 2022 Aviation Corpsman helps deliver baby in NMCCL parking lot CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Delivering a baby at 3 a.m. in a parking lot was never an experience U.S. Navy Petty Officer Third Class Danielle Murphy thought she would encounter while assigned as an Aviation Hospital Corpsman. On June 3, 2022, while standing administrative duty at Naval Medical Center Camp...
13 July 2022 RIMPAC Medical Symposium Focuses on Interoperability PEARL HARBOR - On July 1, 2022, a panel of four medical flag officers from the United States and Australia met to discuss joint-medical readiness during the 2022 Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) Medical Symposium at Sharkey Theater on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam...
07 July 2022 DHA Public Health Director Visits Navy Public Health Facilities PORTSMOUTH, Va. - Rear Adm. Brandon Taylor, Director for the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Public Health, visited the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NCMPHC), Portsmouth, Va., and the Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit Two (NEPMU-2), Norfolk, Va., June 27-28, 2022...
05 July 2022 Dental Health Aboard USS Tripoli PACIFIC OCEAN – The patient lies on the reclining chair with dental instruments neatly lined on a tray beside them. Bright lights shine in their eyes as the dentist picks and prods at their teeth and gums. The instruments rattle as both the dentist and the patient try to stay still through the rolls...
01 July 2022 WWII Navy Nurse Corps officer and Bremerton resident feted on 102nd Birthday It was during the early days of World War Two that Bremerton resident Anna Marie Cole departed her then Michigan home to support her country in need...
01 July 2022 Authority to Assume the Title and Wear the Uniform at NMRTC Bremerton There were 63 reasons to recognize July 1, 2022 as a notable date on the calendar...
01 July 2022 Walter Reed Bethesda Facility Dogs promoted to the next rank BETHESDA, Md. - Naval Medical Leader and Professional Development Command stood alongside Walter Reed Bethesda to welcome its newest Hospital Corpsman Chief Petty Officer (HMC) and Hospital Corpsman Second Class Petty Officer (HM2)...