Story by Lisa Braun Medical Education Training Campus Three instructors with the Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) located on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, presented a continuing education (CE) session at the American Medical Technologists (AMT) Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa. July 23. Army Sgt. 1st Class Devin Bigelow, Combat Medic Specialist […]
Story by Warren Wright Fort Drum MEDDAC FORT DRUM, New York – Soldiers, civilian employees, friends and family of the U.S. Army Medical Department Activity, also known as MEDDAC, and Guthrie Army Health Clinic welcomed the unit’s new commander during a change of command ceremony at the Memorial Park in Fort Drum, New York, July 18, […]
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Sasha Ambrose U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery FALLS CHURCH, Va. – For one U.S. Navy Sailor, the path to medicine didn’t begin in a lab or a lecture hall – it started in a recruiter’s office with a leap of faith. Armed with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry […]
By Ann Brandstadter WRNMMC Command Communications When U.S. Army Medical Department’s (AMEDD) retired Lt. Col. Ronna Trent brings her 13-year-old daughter Piper to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), she knows that she will get the best care possible. Trent has resided in Bethesda, Md., for 27 years, and during her 20 years as […]
Story by Jessie Hudson Martin Army Community Hospital Martin Army Community Hospital (MACH) held a change of command ceremony July 21, as Col. John W. Taylor III relinquished command to Col. M. Jordan Inman. Brig. Gen. Jamie Burk, commanding general of Medical Readiness Command-East, presided over the ceremony, which symbolized the formal transfer of authority and […]
Story by C.J. Lovelace U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command FORT DETRICK, Md. — With over 20 years under her belt at the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency, Kim Dankulich has built a reputation as a subject-matter expert in her field. In recognition of her leadership and strategic medical materiel expertise, USAMMA leaders inducted Dankulich into the […]
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Hughes 18th Medical Command Blood is the fluid that keeps the human heart beating, without it, our internal clock stops ticking and existence stops as we know it. Various-critical situations caused by mankind or natural disasters that require blood to be infused into people to save lives can trigger a […]
Story by Christopher Jones Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga – Cmdr. Christina Carter, a public health nurse currently serving as Director for Public Health at Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms and Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms, recently returned from a temporary assignment to the Kingdom of Tonga in June, where she served […]
Story by Spc. Ethan Mccubbins U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command / U.S. 4th Fleet LIMÓN, Costa Rica – The Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived in Limón, Costa Rica, July 24, 2025, for the fifth mission stop of Continuing Promise 2025 (CP25). “The Continuing Promise team is excited to be here in Costa Rica […]
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Hernandez Army Reserve Medical Command JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. – Approximately 100 Army Reserve Soldiers, both organic and cross-level augmentees to the Fort Gordon, Georgia-based 1st Medical Training Brigade and the Independence, Missouri-based 139th Medical Brigade, respectively served as observer-controller/trainers and joined several other rotational training units to take part […]