Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Heath Zeigler Naval Medical Leader & Professional Development Command During July 2024, Naval Medical Leader and Professional Development Command (NMLPDC) held the annual 4-week in-person Military Tropical Medicine (MTM) didactic course for 43 students at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. The didactic phase of the course was […]
Story by NMCCL Public Affairs Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune FORT MCCOY, W.I. – U.S. Sailors from Expeditionary Medical Facility Kilo integrated with U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve 4th Medical Battalion to participate in Exercise Global Medic 2024, an annual multinational, multicomponent collective training exercise that ran from Aug. 3-16 in Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Global […]
Story by Paul Lagasse Medical Research and Development Command FORT DETRICK, Md. – When Dr. Carrie Quinn was the director of the Gains in the Education of Mathematics and Science summer enrichment program at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, she would greet the students with high fives every morning at the front […]
Story by Erin Sherwood U.S. Army Human Resources Command There are many leaders in the U.S. Army, but few leaders receive the prestigious Gen. Douglas MacArthur Award for exceptional leadership. The MacArthur Leadership Award program was introduced in 1987 to recognize 28 company-grade and junior warrant officers annually who demonstrate MacArthur’s ideals of “Duty, Honor, […]
Story by Tech. Sgt. Justin Norton 302nd Airlift Wing PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — More than 40 personnel from 15 units across three U.S. military service branches participated in a campaign to augment health services in multiple locations across El Salvador, Aug. 19 to Sep. 6. Service members supported the AMISTAD campaign by integrating […]
Story by C.J. Lovelace U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command CAMP CARROLL, Republic of Korea — U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command supported an Eighth Army deployment readiness exercise July 31, supplying medical sets and equipment to an armored division unit participating in Operation Pacific Fortitude. Pacific Fortitude is a readiness validation exercise, where an Army unit […]
Courtesy Story Defense Health Agency FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Flu season is right around the corner—which means it’s time to start thinking about getting vaccines for common respiratory diseases. If you live or travel overseas, it’s important to know where you can get these vaccines. TRICARE covers flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, […]
Story by Senior Master Sgt. DeAndre Curtiss 374th Airlift Wing U.S. Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force and Papua New Guinea Defence Force personnel culminated three days of aeromedical evacuation training and subject matter expert exchanges with a field training exercise during Pacific Angel 24-1 at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, August 28, 2024. U.S. […]
Story by Ken Cornwell Defense Health Agency Providers now have access to the mobile Warfighter Brain Health Provider Toolkit app, an important new tool to assist in the assessment of mild traumatic brain injury, also known as concussion. The Defense Health Agency launched the app in May 2024. “The WBH Provider Toolkit is an app […]
Story by Maria Christina Yager Munson Army Health Center Public Affairs FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas – Six pharmacy team members from Munson Army Health Center earned recognition as top performers for Defense Health Network West in the Defense Health Agency’s annual civilian pharmacy award competition. The awardees are: Dr. Jarrod Miller, PharmD, Outpatient Pharmacist of the […]