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Civil Military Medicine

Supporting National Homeland Defense with Medical and Public Health Preparedness

The Civil Military Medicine Division (CMM) ensures the provision of the highest possible level and quality of health service support to military missions and domestic crisis that are outside the realm of major combat operations. Heavily involved with homeland disaster response—CMM works closely with groups at the federal, state, local, and tribal levels to ensure the safety and health of Service Members, Beneficiaries, and the American people.

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Brooke Army Medical Center optometry resident helps provide free vision care in Texas valley

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9/9/2016

Army Maj. Brad Cunningham provides a slit lamp examination during a free optometry clinic at Juarez-Lincoln High School in Mission, Texas, during a weeklong humanitarian mission to provide vision services to people living in the Rio Grande Valley. (Courtesy photo)

RAM is an organization that provides medical care through mobile clinics in underserved, isolated, or impoverished communities

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Civil Military Medicine, Civil Support

Pacific Partnership 2016 departs Indonesia, completing final mission stop

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9/2/2016

An MH-60S Seahawk helicopter hoists Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Ben McCracken, left, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Sean Magee from the water during a Pacific Partnership 2016 search and rescue drill in Padang, Indonesia. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Trevor Kohlrus)

Pacific Partnership 2016's departure from Indonesia marks the completion of the 2016 mission and six mission stops

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U.S. medical team trains with Australian search and rescue crew

Article

8/22/2016

U.S. Navy Lt. Matthew Case, flight surgeon, and U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Juan Garcia, hospital corpsman, are hoisted into a Sikorsky S76A++ Search and Rescue helicopter while conducting SAR training during Exercise Pitch Black 2016 at Royal Australian Air Force Base Tindal, Australia. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Nicole Zurbrugg)

The U.S. medical team integrated with a RAAF SAR team to familiarize themselves with SAR procedures during a possible emergency during Exercise Pitch Black

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Texas Guardsmen contribute to medical relief effort

Article

7/22/2016

U.S. Air Force Capt. Brett Ringger, optometrist , 136th Medical Group, Texas Air National Guard, examines a patient during the Greater Chenango Cares Innovative Readiness Training in Cortland, New York. The IRT provided medical care to patients at no cost, as well as eye examinations and glasses on site. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Elizabeth Gilbert)

The joint training exercise allows for service members to practice their skills in preparation for wartime operations while also providing a needed service to underserved communities

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Medical logistics team boosts surgical versatility of New Horizons 2016

Article

7/14/2016

A general surgery team performs laparoscopic gallbladder removal surgery during New Horizons 2016 in the Dominican Republic.

Two Airmen helped bring laparoscopic surgery to New Horizons for the first time

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Health Readiness, Civil Military Medicine, Civil Support, Global Health Engagement, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief

Optometry shines as focal point of La Blanca MEDRETE

Article

5/31/2016

$Air Force Capt. Amanda Duty, 42nd Medical Group optometrist, uses a mobile auto refractor to examine the eyes of La Blanca resident Rolando Rojas during Exercise BEYOND THE HORIZON 2016 GUATEMALA. After Rojas’s eyes were examined, he was given a pair of prescription glasses to correct his vision. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dillon Davis)$

The medical readiness training exercise is set to provide services to more than 6,000 local residents

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USNS Mercy arrives in 7th Fleet for Pacific Partnership

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5/25/2016

Sailors assigned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam handle line as the hospital ship USNS Mercy moors at JBPHH. Mercy is deployed in support of Pacific Partnership 2016.

Pacific Partnership began in response to the December 2004 tsunami that devastated parts of Southeast Asia

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Partnership allows medics to receive paramedic training

Article

3/25/2016

Army Staff Sgt. James Soroka, left, and Army Sgt. Brandon Dukes, both medics assigned to the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade practice endotracheal intubation.

Womack Army Medical Center partnered with Fayetteville Technical Community College to provide the opportunity for Army medics a the opportunity to attend EMT-Paramedic training

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Army provides dental care, education to local village

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2/16/2016

Army Capt. Bryan Hays, 403rd Civil Affair Battalion Dental Cell Officer in Charge, examines the teeth of a Djiboutian child in Ali Sabieh, Djibouti. The dental civic action program is part of U.S. Africa Command’s humanitarian civil assistance program, which aims to provide emergency dental procedures as well as basic extractions and dental education. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dan DeCook)

The dental civic action program (DENTCAP), aims to provide emergency dental procedures, basic extractions and dental education

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Naval Hospital Jacksonville kicks-off 2016 mentoring program

Article

11/13/2015

Matthew Alderman (center), a Darnell-Cookman School of the Medical Arts student, observes Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Daniel Anderson (right), of Naval Hospital Jacksonville’s physical therapy department, performing lower-back therapy on Allyson VanHook. Alderman is participating in the hospital’s annual Science, Service, Medicine and Mentoring (S2M2) program. The program allows selected students to receive real-world experiences in patient care areas—from the operating room and emergency department to pharmacy and physical and occupational therapy. (U.S. Navy file photo by Jacob Sippel).

Eight Naval Hospital Jacksonville clinicians – a pharmacist, dentist, general surgeon, nurse, obstetrician/gynecologist, independent duty corpsman and two family medicine physicians – shared their stories in Navy medicine

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San Antonio Military Medical Center docs focus on healing hands, arms

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10/22/2015

Army Lt. Col. Mickey Cho (right) and Honduran residents work on a patient’s hand. The San Antonio Military Medical team conducted a medical readiness exercise in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, focusing on orthopedic procedures to hand and arm injuries. (U.S. Army photo)

A team of 19 medical professionals and surgeons spearheaded three-fold mission; focus on repair of specific hand and arm orthopedic conditions; increase their proficiency, and enhance U.S. - Honduran relations

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USNS Comfort medical team performs first mobile interventional radiology procedure

Article

9/23/2015

Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Connor Potts (left), assigned to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Va., and Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Michael Siem (right), assigned to the Admiral Joel T. Boone Branch Health Clinic Virginia Beach, Va., take an X-ray of a patient at a medical site established at Killick Coast Guard Station in support of Continuing Promise 2015. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kameren Guy Hodnett)

A medical team assigned to the USNS Comfort performed their first mobile interventional radiology (IR) procedure

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Civilians, Army, Air Force team up to serve veterans

Article

9/22/2015

Master Sgt. Kim Groat, 168th Medical Group aerospace medical technician, performs a blood pressure test for a veteran during the Veteran Stand Down at Pioneer Park Civic Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. (Air Force photo by Senior Airman Francine St. Laurent)

As part of a joint-force effort medics provided care for veterans at the 17th annual Veterans Stand Down in Fairbanks

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Medical collaboration provides world-class care

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9/14/2015

Royal Australian Air Force Cpl. Mia Woolley, medical technician, conducts a medical screening on Trica, a 1-year-old from Lila, Bohol province, Philippines, during the Health Services Outreach provided as part of the Pacific Angel Philippines mission. Efforts help multilateral militaries in the Pacific improve and build relationships across a wide spectrum of civic operations, which bolsters each nation’s capacity to respond and support future humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Aaron Oelrich)

Providing world-class care to patients such as Carazon is a valuable byproduct of the real intent of the exercise, which is to build partnerships between the U.S. and its Indo-Asia-Pacific partners.

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USNS Comfort anchors in Haiti, nears 2015 Mission’s end

Article

9/14/2015

Since April, the USNS Comfort has taken a team of U.S. military medical and construction personnel, private-aid organizations and partner-nation officials to 11 Latin American and Caribbean nations, treating more than 100,000 patients and performing community-assistance projects. (U.S. Navy photo)

U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort anchors off the Haitian coast, marking its final Continuing Promise 2015 mission stop

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