12 December 2023 Sailors Enhance Medical Expeditionary Training with New Program CHARLESTON, S.C. — Each month, Sailors at Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Charleston attend Fleet Readiness and Operational Sustainment Training (FROST), which provides a basic understanding and skill set related to operational and expeditionary medical platforms...
06 December 2023 Senate Confirms Rear Adm. Darin Via as next Navy Surgeon General FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- Rear Adm. Darin Via received U.S. Senate confirmation to become the Navy’s 40th Surgeon General...
05 December 2023 Naval Hospital Bremerton Med Board and Navy Wounded Warrior Supporting Those in Need BREMERTON , Wash. - They’re adept at unraveling red-tape, proficient at moving mounds of paperwork and practiced at navigating bureaucracy...
03 December 2023 Pacific Partnership 24-1 Departs Solomon Islands SOLOMON ISLANDS - Pacific Partnership 24-1 (PP24-1) concluded 14 days of medical, humanitarian and disaster response, engineering, and host nation outreach efforts in the Solomon Islands closing out its second mission stop Dec. 3. ...
29 November 2023 Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Lemoore supports NAS Lemoore’s search and rescue and security units in Eastern Sierra Mountains LEMOORE, CA - LEMOORE, Calif. (Nov. 29, 2023) U.S. Navy hospital corpsmen from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Lemoore were suddenly called into action to provide medical coverage to support the Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore security team assigned to secure an inoperable...
18 November 2023 USNS Mercy’s visit to Solomon Islands marks 2nd stop of Pacific Partnership 24-1 HONIARA, Solomon Islands - Pacific Partnership has returned to the Solomon Islands to continue the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific region, Nov. 18. ...
17 November 2023 Naval Hospital Bremerton Staff Hone Skills in Mass Casualty Training Drill BREMERTON, Wash. - Following a challenging exercise to test Naval Hospital Bremerton staff response to an active shooter, they were again immersed in a training environment to handle the consequences wrought by the armed intruder. ...
17 November 2023 Pacific Partnership-24 sees Sailors Helping Ebeye Residents MARSHALL ISLANDS - “This is incredible,” said U.S. Navy Cmdr. Mary Beth Linnell, an optometrist from the USNS Mercy docked in Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands. “This is the whole reason that I decided to stay in the Navy after my initial three-year obligation. This is...
16 November 2023 Pacific Partnership 2024-1; U.S. and Marshallese Medical Team Eradicate Tuberculosis in Outer Islands MARSHALL ISLANDS — U.S. Navy and Marshallese medical personnel delivered collaborative efforts to eliminate tuberculosis in Aur Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), during Pacific Partnership 2024-1 Nov. 7-11, 2023...
08 November 2023 Military Tropical Medicine Course Resumes International Field Missions Two years after its inaugural 1993 class, the Navy’s Military Tropical Medicine (MTM) program took on a tri-service mission, with a hallmark structure of 4 weeks of in-person didactic followed by 2 weeks in tropical infectious disease endemic locations. In 2020, the course momentarily halted...