Courtesy Story Defense Health Agency The Defense Health Agency launched a transformative partnership with VelocityTX, a premier nonprofit bioscience innovation campus in San Antonio’s Innovation District. This partnership aims to accelerate modernization research and development efforts across military medicine. This strategic partnership, led by DHA’s Research and Engineering Directorate, positions VelocityTX as a trusted operational […]
Story by Lt.j.g. Gabriela Santesteban USNMRTC Sigonella/USNH Sigonella/USNMRTU Bahrain/USNMRTC Sigonella Detachment Souda Bay SIGONELLA, Italy – Every day, inside the operating room at U.S. Naval Hospital Sigonella, a team of Sailors work quietly but powerfully behind the scenes . These Sailors, assigned to Navy Medical Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Sigonella, are known as Surgical […]
Story by Derik Crotts Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs/Military Health System After more than a decade of impactful work, and with the most robust and well-characterized concussion cohort ever collected, researchers in the NCAA-Department of Defense (now Department of War) Concussion Assessment, Research and Education, known as CARE, Service Academy […]
Story by Ensign Alexis VanBuren Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific KOROR, Palau – Medical personnel from the Belau National Hospital partnered with the U.S. Army’s Oceania Engagement Team, and Pacific Partnership 2025 to participate in a simulated trauma training and air evacuation exercise in Koror, Palau, Sept. 23. The training focused on strengthening local capability […]
Story by Christopher Delano Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune is enhancing Expeditionary Medical Unit capabilities by equipping hospital corpsmen with advance trauma and pre-hospital care skills through an accelerated paramedic training program offered by Navy Medicine. These paramedic-qualified corpsmen will become an essential piece of the En […]
Story by Sidney Hinds Naval Medical Research Command Brain injury poses a serious health threat to U.S. service members across the world. Cognitive impairment resulting from brain injury can negatively impact individual health, unit readiness and the lethal capacity of the nation’s forces. In defense of U.S. service members, Navy Medicine Research & Development (NMR&D) […]
Story by Kirk Frady Medical Readiness Command, Europe SEMBACH, Germany – U.S. Army Capt. Tyler Sprunger, an Army Medical Service Corps officer and son of retired Army Command Sgt. Maj. Timothy Sprunger, former command sergeant major for U.S. Army Medical Command, is carving his own distinguished path in the Army. He is building upon a […]
Story by Diana Naranjo Naval Medical Research Command ACCRA, Ghana – Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) EURAFCENT, in partnership with the Naval Medical Leader and Professional Development Command (NMLPDC), hosted a two-week field mission as part of Navy Medicine’s annual Military Tropical Medicine (MTM) course for 15 U.S. military physicians and healthcare professionals from August […]
Story by Daniel Taylor U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka YOKOSUKA, Japan (Sept. 23, 2025) – U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC) Yokosuka conducted a large-scale mass casualty drill Sept. 23, testing its ability to triage, treat, and transport multiple simulated patients during a crisis. The exercise included 10 casualty injects, ranging from a femur […]
Story by Kevin Larson Winn Army Community Hospital The daily joy of a family meal turned into an emergency room visit, surgery, and an overnight hospital stay for retired Sergeant First Class Damien Dunn, a Soldier for Life and Winn Army Community Hospital beneficiary. “I’m eating dinner, and I was feeling pain in my kidneys,” […]
