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Navy medical team members got a standing ovation from Ochsner Lafayette General Hospital staff when they arrived to help with covid-19 surges.

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The Navy’s staff corps was formally established on August 4, 1947 out of the need for harnessing the professional skills and expertise of the hospital corps officers and hospital volunteer specialists who had been serving temporary wartime roles. In September 1947, 251 officers took the oath becoming Medical Service Corps’ plankowners. Over the ensuing decades these pioneers—and their successors—helped lay the very foundations for today’s Navy Medical Department—spearheading innovative research endeavors, standing up preventive medicine programs and training initiatives, developing criteria and selection tests for aviators and submariners, writing the policies that shaped and governed what we today call Navy Medicine—and more than anything, projecting medical power in support of naval superiority. To the more than 3,000 Active and Reserve Medical Service Corps--Happy 74th Birthday!

Profiles in Medical Power: HN Nicole Zampino, Intensive Care Unit Corpsman, Naval Medical Center San Diego ICU / COVID-19 Care Unit

Navy Surgeon General Visits NBSD’s Advanced Dental Laboratory

Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham, Surgeon General of the Navy and Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED),visits Naval Base San Diego’s (NBSD) Advanced Dental Laboratory during a tour July 13. Gillingham visited NMRTC San Diego to meet with Sailors and staff, and toured a mental health clinic, advanced dental laboratory and USNS Mercy. NMRTC San Diego’s mission is to prepare service members to deploy in support of operational forces, deliver high quality healthcare services and shape the future of military medicine through education, training and research. NMRTC San Diego employs more than 6,000 active duty military personnel, civilians, and contractors in Southern California to provide patients with world-class care anytime, anywhere. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jacob Woitzel)
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USNavy Photos of the Day:

Fleet Surgical Team 7 conducts surgery aboard (LHA 6)

Historical photos - On This Day in Navy medicine

South Vietnam - A Navy surgeon removes shrapnel from the broken legs of U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal J.A. Holland during a four and a half hour operation performed in the hospital facility aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LPH-0010). [Surgery]

07/14/1967; USN K-0039822; by JOC E.J. Filtz, USN

Navy Medicine Historical Files Collection - Subject series - Vietnam War - Treating Casualties and Patients.
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Naval Ophthalmic Support and Training Activity (NOSTRA)
06.16.2021
Photo by Cmdr. Denver Applehans
U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

210616-N-EY938-103 YORKTOWN, Va. (June 16, 2021) Jim Kent (right), Director of Production, at the Naval Ophthalmic Support and Training Activity (NOSTRA) in Yorktown, Virginia, shows Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham, Surgeon General of the Navy, how glasses are manufactured at the facility June 16, 2021. NOSTRA is the Department of Defense's premiere manufacturing facility for the Optical Fabrication Enterprise, setting the standard for military medicine in the optical community. The NOSTRA Team consists of more than 210 Military, Civilian and Contract personnel to manufacture quality eyewear for active duty service members, retirees, contractors and public service workers.

Saturday, June 12 is Women Veterans Day, a day marked to honor women who have served and who currently serve in the United States military. The day is the anniversary of the signing of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act on June 12, 1948.

Today and every day we value and recognize the contributions made by women’s service in all branches of the military. Sisters, we thank you for your service. 🇺🇸