Story by Thomas Cieslak Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point A Sailor assigned to Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point continues her family’s tradition of helping others through service in the United States Navy. But instead of a hammer and nails, she sometimes wields a needle. Inspired by her father’s legacy as a Navy Seabee, Hospital Corpsman […]
Story by Senior Airman Matt Porter Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst JOINT BASE MCGUIRE DIX LAKEHURST, N.J. — The 87th Medical Group celebrated a major milestone in military medical readiness with the graduation of two Airmen from the inaugural Air Force Paramedic Currency Platform at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 22, 2025. U.S. Air Force Senior […]
Story by LaShawn Sykes USN Military Sealift Command NORFOLK, Virginia (May 30, 2025) – The U.S. Navy Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) departed Naval Station Norfolk to begin its summer deployment to the U.S. Southern Command area of operation in support of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S.4th Fleet’s Continuing Promise 2025, May 30. […]
Story by Staff Sgt. Mikayla Fritz 807th Theater Medical Command As Exercise Global Medic, the medical component of Operation Mojave Falcon 25, kicks off, the 934th Forward Resuscitative Surgical Detachment highlights its vital role in providing rapid, life-saving care in austere environments while supporting the Army’s readiness and modernization of battlefield medicine. Global Medic delivers […]
Story by Joseph Jones Madigan Army Medical Center MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. — On a beautiful spring afternoon in the Pacific Northwest, Madigan’s Behavioral Health Service Line (BHSL) Director, Lt. Col. (P) Osceola M. Evans, was promoted to the rank of Colonel on Friday, April 4, 2025. He has been a […]
Story by Lt. Sydney Wall Naval Health Clinic New England On Tuesday, May 22, 2025, Capt. John Hoyos, was relieved by Cmdr. Dean Kang, as officer in charge of Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Unit (NMRTU) Groton during a change of charge ceremony held at Groton, Connecticut. “Throughout his tenure, Capt. Hoyos exemplified innovation, compassion, […]
Courtesy Story Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Walter Reed’s Refractive Surgery Center provides care to enhance the operational readiness of active-duty service members. The center is staffed by physicians and technicians who use three state-of-the-art lasers to provide advanced vision correction procedures such as LASIK (Laser-Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis) and PRK (Photorefracitve Keratectomy). These procedures […]
By Bernard S. Little Walter Reed Office of Command Communications “Occupational Therapy heals the body, mind, and spirit,” and “We may not have it all together, but together, we have it all,” are messages on two well-crafted wooden signs that hang in Walter Reed’s Occupational Therapy (OT) Outpatient Clinic in the America Zone (Bldg. 19). […]
Story by Robert Hammer Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs/Military Health System Dr. Jonathan Woodson, president of the Uniformed Services University, spoke to military health leaders in March 2025 about how training future medical professionals needs to refocus on the rapidly evolving digital landscape in health care. “We need a workforce […]
Story by Spc. Justin Fallon 123rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment HOHENFELS, Germany — Combat medics and medical personnel from multiple NATO units conducted live point-to-point blood transfusion training during Exercise Combined Resolve 25-2 at Hohenfels Training Area, Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC), Germany between May 18-20, 2025. The scenario placed medics into high-pressure environments where […]