Story by T. T. Parish U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity (USAMMDA) Anyone familiar with WWII will remember the 16 mm film footage of American Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Airmen fighting on the far-flung beaches of the South Pacific, at Normandy, Leyte Gulf, and in the skies above Nazi-occupied Europe. The base of those epic […]
Story by MaryTherese Griffin Army Recovery Care Program FORT BELVOIR Va.- Like many Soldiers before him, 1st Lt. Matthew Hovey never wanted to leave his unit, but an injury from a deployment in 2022 to the Middle East made it difficult. Also, like many Soldiers before him, he wanted to see the mission through because, […]
Courtesy Story Defense Health Agency The TRICARE Pharmacy Program is improving how we manage specialty drugs. Starting March 1, Accredo will provide specialty drugs and enhanced clinical services if you fill TRICARE-defined specialty prescriptions with TRICARE Home Delivery. Accredo will also stay in the TRICARE network as an in-network retail pharmacy. If you or a […]
Story by Elaine Heirigs Naval Health Clinic Lemoore LEMOORE, Calif. (Feb. 8, 2024) Naval Health Clinic (NHC) Lemoore trained for real-world events during the Commander Naval Installation Command (CNIC) Citadel Shield/Solid Curtain (CS/SC) 2024 exercise held on Feb. 7, aboard Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore. CS/SC is a yearly force protection exercise planned and conducted […]
Story by Danae Johnson Medical Research and Development Command From teaching life-saving skills to caring for civilian patients alongside Service Members, Military medicine continues to benefit local communities. The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command’s Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center is bringing together the unity of Army medical care within the San Antonio […]
Story by Staff Sgt. Timothy Leddick 911th Airlift Wing Many have an idea of what jobs exist within the U.S. Armed Forces based on what’s seen. Maintainers working on aircraft, followed by pilots taking off, security forces defending bases or government assets and aeromedical evacuation and staging Airmen performing patient transportations. However, many may not […]
Story by Senior Airman Evan Lichtenhan Minot Air Force Base Public Affairs U.S. Air Force Surgeon General, Lt. Gen. Robert Miller, visited Minot Air Force Base Feb. 5, to observe the 5th Medical Group’s impact on readiness and share the Air Force Medical Service’s efforts to meet the demands of Great Power Competition. During the […]
Story by Kirk Frady Medical Readiness Command, Europe Landstuhl, Germany – More than 60 U.S. military and civilian medical leaders, providers, and planners from all branches of service from across the European theater assembled in Landstuhl, Germany Feb. 6 – 8 to take part in the first-ever Medical Readiness Command, Europe Strategic Medical Offsite. The […]
By James A. Black WRNMMC Office of Command Communications Women Physicians: Pioneering Health Care and Patient-Centered Service For more than a century, women physicians have contributed to the success of medical care in the United States, playing vital roles in saving the lives of children, adolescents, adults and wounded, ill or injured services members. With […]
Story by Isaac Savitz U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa Okinawa, Japan: This week on Camp Foster, medical personnel from all over the island gathered together in a large audience to attend a two-day refresher course on Military Tropical Medicine (MTM). LCDR Vlad Stanila from U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa (USNO), Preventive Medicine Specialist, coordinated the course, and […]