Story by Jason W. Edwards Defense Health Network Central JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Aug. 28, 2025 – Service members from several units participated in a medical air transport training flight, Aug. 21. Members of the 59th Medical Wing’s Critical Care Air Transport Teams flew alongside the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Flight […]
Story by Ann Brandstadter Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Dr. Wanda D. Foxx, a staff pediatrician at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, dedicated nearly 25 of her 45-year career to the hospital, shaping the future of military medicine. A longtime member of the Pediatric Primary Care Medical Home’s “Green Team,” she mentored and […]
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Hernandez Army Reserve Medical Command WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 40 Army Reserve Soldiers of the Staten Island, New York-based Northeast Medical Area Readiness Support Group and other direct reporting units from the Army Reserve Medical Command hierarchy took part in two concurrent rotations of the annual Medical Readiness […]
Story by Aleece Williams Naval Medical Research Command SILVER SPRING, Md. – Yoann Le Breton, with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), and Evelina Angov, with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), submitted a provisional patent application for an antimicrobial, non-antibiotic solution to wound care on July 17. Le Breton and Angov, both microbiologists, […]
Story by Senior Master Sgt. Julie Avey 168th Wing FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – Airmen from the 168th Wing Medical Group engaged in an advanced, rigorous combat-casualty-care exercise at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, designed to sharpen their skills in delivering lifesaving care under hostile conditions, Aug 5, 2025. The training, conducted in coordination with the U.S. Army […]
Story by Spc. Abreanna Goodrich 28th Public Affairs Detachment CAMP ITAMI, Japan — Medical personnel from the U.S., Japan and Australia worked side by side during exercise Yama Sakura 89 to keep troops healthy and mission-ready. Staff Sgt. Bobbie Herrera, a medic with the 7456th Medical Operations Readiness Unit out of Iowa, said the combined […]
Story by Capt. Jason Carr 107th Attack Wing ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. — Twenty Airmen from the New York Air National Guard’s 107th Attack Wing’s Medical Group, stationed in Niagara Falls NY, were among 160 joint service members from 25 units supporting Operation Healthy Ellwood, an Innovation Readiness Training (IRT) mission, July 23 to Aug. 1, […]
Story by Sidney Hinds Naval Medical Research Command SILVER SPRING, Md. – Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC) held a Change of Command ceremony in the Daniel K. Inouye building on the Forest Glen Annex on 13 Aug. Capt. Franca Jones was relieved as commander of NMRC, and of all Navy Medicine Research & Development (NMR&D), […]
Story by Staff Sgt. Tylon Chapman 185th Air Refueling Wing, Iowa Air National Guard With the smell of salt on the ocean breeze, medical and firefighter Airmen of the 185th Air Refueling Wing joined 60 guard members from 11 states last week to train in advanced medical techniques in Hilo, Hawaii. The 185th’s Medical Group […]
Story by Kirk Frady Medical Readiness Command, Europe SEMBACH, Germany – U.S. Army medical personnel stationed in Poland and Germany are fielding a new web-based platform designed to streamline electronic health record management and improve patient care in forward or remote operating locations. The Patient Health, Operational Electronic Network Information Exchange Medical (PhoenixMed), aims to […]