Story by Staff Sgt. Samuel Kim U.S. Army Europe and Africa BAYEUX, France — Master Sgt. (Ret.) Charles Norman Shay, a highly decorated combat medic who served in both World War II and the Korean War, was formally inducted into the Order of Military Medical Merit (O2M3) during a bedside ceremony in Bayeux, France, on […]
Story by Bernard Little Walter Reed National Military Medical Center By Bernard S. Little WRNMMC Hospital Communications Excellence, integrity and compassion are Walter Reed’s values, and the medical center’s nursing team exhibits these qualities day in and day out. Walter Reed regularly recognizes its nursing team members with the DAISY Award, celebrating the extraordinary clinical […]
Courtesy Story Defense Health Agency For many TRICARE beneficiaries, TRICARE Open Season is the time to make a change to your health plan. As outlined in the TRICARE Choices in the United States Handbook, open season is the annual period when you can enroll or change your health care plan for the following year. This […]
Story by Aleece Williams Naval Medical Research Command SILVER SPRING, Md. – Researchers at Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC) submitted a provisional patent for a nanoparticle vaccine to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on September 9. This vaccine development method is intended to prevent malaria but can also be used to develop vaccines against […]
Story by Gino Mattorano Evans Army Community Hospital Four of the Army’s newest nurses graduated from Evans Army Community Hospital’s Clinical Nurse Transition Program in a ceremony on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. The Clinical Nurse Transition Program offers new nurses over 800 hours of hands-on, precepted clinical experience, combined with 48 hours of focused didactic […]
Story by Zachary Wilson Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio –Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) Dayton marked its 15th anniversary last month, commemorating a decade and a half of advancing Naval Medical Research and Development (NMR&D) and strengthening the health, readiness and performance of U.S. service members. The Command hosted an […]
Story by Andrew Ortuzar Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs/Military Health System With one word, “congratulations,” in 2017, Army Capt. (Dr.) Kristan Baird’s life was changed. She had just been accepted into the Uniformed Services University’s Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program, known as EMDP2, designed for enlisted personnel from across […]
Story by Senior Airman Brenden Beezley 86th Airlift Wing RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany – Airmen from the 86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron configured a C-130H Hercules aircraft into a mission-ready aeromedical evacuation layout Nov. 20, enabling a NATO medical evaluation course to conduct its culminating mock assessment here. The 86th AES, supported by a Critical Care […]
Story by André B. Sobocinski, Historian U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Tucked away in a display case located in the command suite at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) in Falls Church, Virginia, lies an unassuming relic: a small, beige book of instructions dated 1917. The casual visitor may walk past this […]
Story by Lt.j.g. Adelola Tinubu Commander, Navy Recruiting Command For Lt. Cmdr. Pamela Resurreccion, the decision to join the Navy Reserve began with a desire for growth. After years working as an emergency trauma nurse, she realized she had reached a point of comfort. Her routine no longer pushed her skills, leadership, or sense of […]