30 October 2022 USNS Comfort Commences Continuing Promise 2022 in Guatemala PUERTO BARRIOS, Guatemala – Hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) anchored off the coast of Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, in support of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet’s Continuing Promise 2022 (CP22) mission, Oct. 26...
25 October 2022 USS Gerald R. Ford’s Commitment to Women’s Health ATLANTIC OCEAN — “My aunt passed away in 2008 from breast cancer,” said Lt. Nyasia Jenkins, from Unci, New York, assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) medical department.“It was detected late so there was really no chance for us to see her.”One in eight women will face cancer in their life...
25 October 2022 The Press for Time during Medical Emergencies (Oct. 16, 2022) ATLANTIC OCEAN — “When we responded, all we could hear was screaming,” Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Blaine Grandfield, from Merritt, Texas, says, recalling a time a Sailor fell three stories off a scaffolding onto a floating barge while serving aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). A...
05 October 2022 Memorial that honors the sacrifices of Navy Corpsmen to be unveiled CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – Just outside Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, structures and statues rise from a plot of land. This space is hallowed ground, where names and sacrifices are not forgotten. The Lejeune Memorial Gardens pays respects to those who have shaped United States military...
04 August 2022 Navy Entomologists Train With Largest Mosquito Control Program in U.S. Personnel from the Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE) visited the Lee County Mosquito Control District (LCMCD), Lehigh Acres, Fla. July 24-29, 2022 to learn more about mosquito control and surveillance.As part of their readiness training, three Navy Entomologists embarked on helicopters to...