Story by Jean Graves Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital ALEXANDRIA, La. — Leaders from Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital and the Alexandria VA Health Care System met July 18 to explore opportunities for collaboration aimed at improving access to care for veterans and active duty service members across Central Louisiana. The preliminary engagement brought together clinical and […]
Story by C.J. Lovelace U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. — The Army is continuing its transformation effort to bring medical maintenance support closer to operational units without organic maintainers within their ranks. Under an initiative called Medical Logistics in Campaigning, or MiC, the Home-Station Medical Maintenance Support, or HMMS, program was […]
Story by Douglas Holl Defense Centers for Public Health-Aberdeen The Armed Forces Wellness Center headquarters team, which is part of Defense Health Agency-Public Health located in Aberdeen, Maryland, achieved a major milestone with the American Medical Association’s approval of a new Current Procedural Terminology code for air displacement plethysmography, which is a body composition analysis […]
Story by Senior Airman Jennifer Knope 377th Air Base Wing ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The 377th Medical Group from Kirtland Air Force Base joined forces with the New Mexico Veterans Affairs (NMVA) to take part in a large-scale military medical exercise on July 30, simulating the transfer of wounded troops from overseas to U.S. care facilities. […]
Story by Gino Mattorano Evans Army Community Hospital Col. John King assumed command of Dental Health Activity Fort Carson from Col. Pete Guevara in a change of command ceremony July 30 at Founder’s Field. The change of command also marks the realignment of the dental health activity, or DENTAC, under Evans Army Community Hospital. Along […]
Courtesy Story Kentucky National Guard Public Affairs Office FRANKFORT, Ky. – Army National Guard Soldiers from the Kentucky Medical Detachment (MEDDET) and the 1163rd Medical Company Area Support (MCAS) recently completed overseas deployment training (ODT) rotations at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) in Germany. The missions enhanced Soldier medical readiness and strengthened partnerships with active-duty […]
Story by Christopher Jones Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Rear Adm. Matthew Case, Chief of the Navy Medical Service Corps (MSC) and Acting Assistant Director for Healthcare Administration for the Defense Health Agency, visited Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms on July 30 to commemorate the corps’ 78th birthday […]
Story by Staff Sgt. Jerry Zuetrong Army Reserve Medical Command In a dynamic display of joint medical readiness, Army Reserve Soldiers and U.S. Air Force personnel teamed up during Exercise Ultimate Caduceus 2025, a large-scale training exercise, to test large-scale casualty evacuation operations and reinforce critical interoperability between services. Hosted at Travis Air Force Base, […]
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) departed from Limón, Costa Rica, August 1, 2025, after spending eight days providing medical care, dental care, veterinary care, and multiple subject matter exchanges for Continuing Promise 2025 (CP25). […]
Story by T. T. Parish Operational Medical Systems Team members with the Operational Medical Systems Program Management Office joined several hundred military and medical development industry experts today to kick off the Department of Defense’s annual four-day Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, Aug. 4, 2025. MHSRS is a DoD-sponsored event that brings […]