Story by Chief Petty Officer Elizabeth Reisen U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet KEFLAVÍK AIR BASE, Iceland – Hospitalman Zachary Elliott joins U.S. Sailors and Marines for U.S.-led exercise NORTHERN VIKING 2024 (NV24) in Keflavik, Iceland, from Aug. 26 to Sept. 3, 2024. As a native of Centerton, Arkansas, Elliott is a graduate of Bentonville […]
Courtesy Story Landstuhl Regional Medical Center LANDSTUHL, Germany – Landstuhl Regional Medical Center welcomed U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Jorge L. Oquendo and bid farewell to U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Omar Mascarenas during an assumption of responsibility ceremony, Aug. 29. Upon assuming the office of LRMC command sergeant major, Oquendo became the senior noncommissioned […]
Story by C.J. Lovelace U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command SAGAMI ARMY DEPOT, Japan — Seventeen Army Reserve Soldiers out of Utah trained alongside U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command team members for two weeks during Operation Patriot Press in July, helping to preserve readiness of forward-positioned medical equipment and supplies. Members of the 308th Medical Logistics […]
Story by Thomas Cieslak Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point Every duty day presents a new challenge for the Sailor leading the effort to keep Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point healthy. Hospital Corpsman Second Class Ashlyn Sanders serves aboard Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point as the Directorate Leading Petty Officer for the Department of Public […]
Story by T. T. Parish U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity (USAMMDA) A U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity commercial partner received Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the Department of Defense to use octaplasLG Powder—a potentially lifesaving treatment option for blood replacement therapies in certain operational circumstances. Notice of […]
Story by Thomas Shrader U.S. Army Medical Command JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Aug. 20, 2024) – The Society of Army Physician Assistants kicked off its annual conference in San Antonio, Texas, on August 20, 2024. The Surgeon General of the U.S. Army and Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Command, Lt. Gen. Mary K. Izaguirre, […]
Story by Bernard Little Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Walter Reed salutes the U.S. Navy Dental Corps for its 112 years of service to the nation. The corps includes U.S. Navy officers with a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) or Dental Medicine (DMD) degree who practice dentistry to ensure service members are ready to […]
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Alejandra Ramirez Alarcon Naval Medical Research Command LIMA, Peru – Scientists from the Virology Surveillance Program at U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) SOUTH recently published findings from a study of samples processed from a recent dengue outbreak, in collaboration with the Health Ministry of Peru and Naval Medical […]
Story by Lt.Cmdr. Hien Vu Commander, Navy Region Korea Hold the press! For the first time in a long time, the Branch Health Clinic (BHC) of U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Yokosuka aboard Fleet Activities Chinhae (CFAC) has a full-time dentist. Lieutenant Ryan Twaddle recently arrived here to attend to the dental […]
Story by Kirk Frady Medical Readiness Command, Europe Rhine Ordnance Barracks, Germany – More than 120 U.S. military medical leaders, providers, planners, and logisticians from across the European and African theaters assembled at Rhine Ordnance Barracks, Germany Aug. 20 – 22 to take part in a Senior Leader Forum hosted by Medical Readiness Command, Europe. […]