Courtesy Story Walter Reed National Military Medical Center By WRNMMC Office of Command Communications 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) […]
Story by Emily McCamy U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Guantanamo Bay Courtesy Story by Megan Lemly, Navy Office of Community Outreach MILLINGTON, Tenn. – Petty Officer 2nd Class Sierra Koch, a native of Apache Junction, Arizona, serves aboard U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC) Guantanamo Bay at U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo […]
Story by Bernard Little Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Walter Reed continued its modernization journey with a ribbon cutting for the medical center’s new state-of-the-art Roosevelt Pavilion on June 3. “Today, we are not just cutting a ribbon. We’re opening the doors to a new era of care, readiness, and innovation – one that […]
Story by Andrew Brown McDonald Army Health Center JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. – McDonald Army Health Center held a change of command ceremony May 29 at Jacobs Conference Center, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, recognizing its outgoing commander, Lt. Col. Demarcio Reed, and welcoming incoming commander Lt. Col. Michael F. Brown. Brig. Gen. James (Jamie) Burk, commanding […]
Story by Robert Whetstone Brooke Army Medical Center Public Affairs JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, June 4, 2025 — Brooke Army Medical Center took first place during the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council’s annual Decontamination Rodeo, May 15, 2025, at the STRAC facility. The annual DECON Rodeo competition generates various challenges to competitors […]
Story by Tech. Sgt. Shelby Thurman Air Force Global Strike Command Air Force Global Strike Command presented the results of its Comprehensive Health Risk Assessments for its three active missile bases during a virtual town hall Wednesday. The risk assessments, conducted by the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, are an assessment of […]
Story by Bernard Little Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Hit by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) in 2006 while on his third combat tour in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Col. Kenneth Dwyer said, “I am only here today because of the dedication, excellence, and commitment of practitioners of military medicine, and especially, nurses.” Currently the Commander […]
Story by Janet A. Aker Defense Health Agency An airman who endured a long battle with physical and mental conditions from traumatic brain injury is grateful for the efforts of his Military Health System healthcare team whom he says saved his life. He’s now running 100 miles a week, taking part in marathons, and remains […]
Story by Janice Erdlitz Lyster Army Health Clinic The Retiree-at-Cost-Hearing Aid Program, also known as RACHAP, is now available to retirees enrolled to Lyster Army Health Clinic (LAHC). Additionally, Retiree dependent spouses and previous RACHAP patients are also able to utilize the program. The program provides retirees the opportunity to buy top-of-the-line hearing aids, the […]
Story by Tech. Sgt. John Linzmeier 154th Wing, Hawaii Air National Guard Hawaii National Guard medical professionals completed their fourth annual Tactical Combat Casualty Care exchange with partners from the Armed Forces of the Philippines at Camp O’Donnell from May 18-30. This Subject Matter Expert Exchange was facilitated by the State Partnership Program and helped […]