GREAT INAGUA, Cuba - Located deep in the tropics approximately 55 miles from the eastern tip of Cuba, United States Coast Guard (USCG) Base Great Inagua is a nine-acre forward operating base renowned for search and rescue operations...

SAN DIEGO - A team of 16 from Naval Medical Forces Pacific’s headquarters, located in San Diego, California, and various NMFP subordinate commands travelled to Hawaii and participated in Keen Edge 22 from Jan. 27- Feb. 3...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - On February 17, 1948, a Navy medical team embarked on a historic journey across the African Continent. Over a period of nine months they travelled in a caravan from Port Said, Egypt to Capetown, South Africa while collecting thousands of rare specimens, providing medical care to...

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - United States Navy Lieutenant Kenneth J. Bush was recently recognized as Navy Medicine’s Junior Information Technology Officer of the Year for 2021. Bush serves as a department head and Chief Information Officer for Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune’s Information Management...

BREMERTON, Wash. - The aroma of Chicken Carnitas wafted through Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Terrace Dining Room a few hours before lunch time. Must be Taco Tuesday...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. - The Navy Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit FIVE (NEPMU-5) Forward Deployable Preventive Medicine Units (FDPMU’s) exercised their knowledge and skills developed through extensive field training to provide support and expertise during Operation Allies Refuge (OAR)/Welcome (W)...

NORFOLK, Va. - U.S. 2nd Fleet’s (C2F) medical team hosted medical leadership from various staffs, ships, and government agencies for a Fleet Medical Training event to discuss the future of Navy Medicine at Navy Warfare Development Command (NWDC), Jan. 20...

BETHESDA, Md. – Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Wesley Middleton was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal on Jan. 18, 2022, for an act of bravery involving a possible life-saving heroic act at the scene of a terrible vehicle accident early in the morning on Jan. 3, 2022...

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - With the New Year comes a new electronic health record for Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune beneficiaries. On March 19, 2022, NMCCL will officially transition to using MHS GENESIS, the Military Health System’s new structure for electronic health records, or EHR, for service...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Chiefs and Directors are an essential part of Navy Medicine and have long represented the upper tiers of corps leadership. By why do some staff corps have a Director and others a Chief? And if there is a distinction between these titles, why are they often collectively referred...