Navy Medicine Features

By Staff Sgt. Whitney Houston As a baseline standard, the military asks its personnel to be effective in whatever job they choose to do. Many meet the standard and some go above and beyond. An example of the latter is U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Charisse Torres, hospital corpsman and X-ray technologist at the NATO Role III Multi-National Medical …

By Douglas H Stutz, Naval Hospital Bremerton Public Affairs From the Boxer Rebellion in China at the turn of the 20th century to the jungles of Vietnam in 1968, 22 Navy hospital corpsmen have been recipients of the Medal of Honor for their unrelenting perseverance, steadfast courage and unwavering devotion to duty in the face of extreme personal danger. Leading …

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By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Sorenson Two weeks each year, Sailors from around the country gather here to attend Northern Lights, an annual Navy Reserve medical training exercise May 1 through 14 hosted by Expeditionary Medical Facility Great Lakes One, a Navy Reserve expeditionary medical unit based out of Great Lakes, Ill. The purpose of the exercise is …

By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class (SW) Bruce Cummins, Navy Medicine Education and Training Command Public Affairs  Navy Medicine professionals attended and presented at one of the largest trauma and surgical conferences on the West Coast May 15-16 at the Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, California. The 21st Annual 2014 University of Southern California (USC) Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical …