By Shoshona Pilip-Florea, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Public Affairs U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, the flagship command for all of Navy and Marine Corps medicine, started relocating its staff May 30 from Washington, D.C., to Falls Church, Va., as part of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Act of [...]
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By Robyn Mincher, DCoE The newest mobile application from National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2) encourages you to get moving. Designed for those experiencing post-combat stress, “Positive Activity Jackpot,” available for Android systems, helps users creatively plan fun activities using “pleasant events scheduling,” a behavioral health therapy used to help regulate emotions and cope [...]
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By Paul Ross, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Public Affairs and Editor, Navy Medicine Magazine When my kid brother left for Iraq he was just that — a kid. He returned home shattered inside. The “dark pit,” as he calls it, was hidden underneath his gruff, infantry-tattooed exterior. No one in our family [...]
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By Erin Ayers and Regina Edwards, Mental Health Department, Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune Leisure time? Who has time for that? As therapists at one of six Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune Mental Health clinics, we see service members working long hours, often consumed by their jobs and multiple deployments. One of our tasks is to bring [...]
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This blog is in honor of Memorial Day and comes from Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations. I am re-purposing the following letter I sent to The Hill recognizing our U.S. Navy Sailors for their Memorial Day tribute. It is available online by clicking here. Shipmates, Though the U.S. Navy is made [...]
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