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250610-N-KC192-1010 PORTSMOUTH, Va. (June 10, 2025) Master Chief Hospital Corpsman Hope Ball, assigned to Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic, discusses topics of interest to the Independent Duty Corpsman (IDC) community during monthly IDC training on board Naval Station Norfolk, June 10, 2025. The training consisted of community updates, mentorship, and Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit demonstration and familiarization training. This training highlights how IDC’s play a critical role in Navy Medicine’s operational mission—and encourages other Corpsmen to consider this challenging and rewarding career path, a vital role to advancing Navy Medicine’s operational readiness. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Levi Decker)

250610-N-KC192-1042 PORTSMOUTH, Va. (June 10, 2025) Lt. Cmdr. David Carder, assigned to Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic, demonstrates usage of the Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit (BATDOK) during monthly IDC training on board Naval Station Norfolk, June 10, 2025. The training consisted of community updates, mentorship, and BATDOK demonstration and familiarization training. This training highlights how IDC’s play a critical role in Navy Medicine’s operational mission—and encourages other Corpsmen to consider this challenging and rewarding career path, a vital role to advancing Navy Medicine’s operational readiness. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Levi Decker)

250610-N-KC192-1038 PORTSMOUTH, Va. (June 10, 2025) Lt. Cmdr. David Carder, assigned to Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic, briefs Sailors on the Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit (BATDOK) during monthly IDC training on board Naval Station Norfolk, June 10, 2025. The training consisted of community updates, mentorship, and BATDOK demonstration and familiarization training. This training highlights how IDC’s play a critical role in Navy Medicine’s operational mission—and encourages other Corpsmen to consider this challenging and rewarding career path, a vital role to advancing Navy Medicine’s operational readiness. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Levi Decker)

250610-N-KC192-1053 PORTSMOUTH, Va. (June 10, 2025) Lt. Cmdr. David Carder, assigned to Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic, demonstrates usage of the Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit (BATDOK) during monthly IDC training on board Naval Station Norfolk, June 10, 2025. The training consisted of community updates, mentorship, and BATDOK demonstration and familiarization training. This training highlights how IDC’s play a critical role in Navy Medicine’s operational mission—and encourages other Corpsmen to consider this challenging and rewarding career path, a vital role to advancing Navy Medicine’s operational readiness. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Levi Decker)

250610-N-KC192-1034 PORTSMOUTH, Va. (June 10, 2025) A presentation on the Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit (BATDOK) during monthly IDC training on board Naval Station Norfolk, June 10, 2025. The training consisted of community updates, mentorship, and BATDOK demonstration and familiarization training. This training highlights how IDC’s play a critical role in Navy Medicine’s operational mission—and encourages other Corpsmen to consider this challenging and rewarding career path, a vital role to advancing Navy Medicine’s operational readiness. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Levi Decker)

250610-N-KC192-1073 PORTSMOUTH, Va. (June 10, 2025) Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Vincent Quejado and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Samuel Beck, assigned to the first purpose-built expeditionary mobile base vessel USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3), conduct Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit (BATDOK) familiarization training during monthly IDC training on board Naval Station Norfolk, June 10, 2025. The training consisted of community updates, mentorship, and BATDOK demonstration and familiarization training. This training highlights how IDC’s play a critical role in Navy Medicine’s operational mission—and encourages other Corpsmen to consider this challenging and rewarding career path, a vital role to advancing Navy Medicine’s operational readiness. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Levi Decker)

250529-N-SX503-1013 NORFOLK, Va. (May 29, 2025) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Andrew Class, assigned to the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), shows Sailors medical supplies during a stretcher bearer evolution. Kearsarge is currently pierside at Naval Station Norfolk conducting routine maintenance to support its joint U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps mission. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jack Stann)

Tactical Combat Casualty Care under Fleet Marine Force supervision… Hospital Corpsman 1st Class (Fleet Marine Force qualified) Austin Santistevan, Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton Tactical Combat Casualty Care course instructor keeps an attentive eye on corpsmen students taking week-long TCCC classroom and field training to hone their abilities in an austere combat environment. For Santistevan, teaching the Tactical Combat Casualty Care course is a labor of love. “I love being a TCCC instructor. I can teach a course and know I’m making a difference,” said Santistevan, a 13-year Navy veteran, from Pueblo, Colorado and a Centennial High School grad, “home of the Bulldogs.” (official Navy photo by Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton public affairs officer).

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Leading from the FMF front…Hospital Corpsman 1st Class (Fleet Marine Force qualified) Austin Santistevan, Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton Tactical Combat Casualty Care course instructor, paces corpsmen students through week-long classroom and field training to hone their abilities in an austere combat environment. “I love being a TCCC instructor. I can teach a course and know I’m making a difference,” said Santistevan, a 13-year Navy veteran, from Pueblo, Colorado and a Centennial High School grad, “home of the Bulldogs.” TCCC is an operational necessity for all corpsmen and is specifically designed to simulate the unique challenges and conditions on the field of battle in handling traumatic injuries (official Navy photo by Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton public affairs officer).

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Field of battle scrutiny…under the watchful – and demanding – gaze of Hospital Corpsman 1st Class (Fleet Marine Force qualified) Austin Santistevan, Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton Tactical Combat Casualty Care course instructor, Hospitalman Joseph Clark is actively critiqued on his response ability to a battlefield injury. TCCC is an operational necessity for Clark and all other corpsmen and is specifically designed to simulate the unique challenges and conditions on the field of battle in handling traumatic injuries. For Santistevan, teaching the Tactical Combat Casualty Care course is a labor of love. “I love being a TCCC instructor. I can teach a course and know I’m making a difference,” said Santistevan, a 13-year Navy veteran, from Pueblo, Colorado and a Centennial High School grad, “home of the Bulldogs.” (official Navy photo by Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton public affairs officer).

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Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Glenda Miller, from Wichita, Kansas, treats a head wound aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley (DDG 101) in the South China Sea, May 14, 2025. Gridley, assigned to the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, is underway in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations on a scheduled deployment, demonstrating the U.S. Navy's unwavering commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Timothy Meyer)

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Nov. 29, 2023) – Hospitalman Julitza Berdecia, of Houston, an assistant command pay and personnel administrator assigned to Naval Medical Forces Support Command (NMFSC), was recognized as the Blue Jacket of the Year by NMFSC Commander Capt. Walter D. Brafford at command headquarters. Additionally, Berdecia, a 2020 graduate of Klein-Collins High School, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for her professional achievement throughout fiscal year 2023. NMFSC develops and delivers integrated education and training that produces operational medical experts to project Medical Power in support of Naval Superiority. (U.S. Navy photo by Burrell Parmer, NMFSC Public Affairs/Released)

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Nov. 29, 2023) – Hospitalman Julitza Berdecia, of Houston, an assistant command pay and personnel administrator assigned to Naval Medical Forces Support Command (NMFSC), was recognized as the Blue Jacket of the Year by NMFSC Commander Capt. Walter D. Brafford at command headquarters. Additionally, Berdecia, a 2020 graduate of Klein-Collins High School, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for her professional achievement throughout fiscal year 2023. NMFSC develops and delivers integrated education and training that produces operational medical experts to project Medical Power in support of Naval Superiority. (U.S. Navy photo by Burrell Parmer, NMFSC Public Affairs/Released)

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Nov. 29, 2023) – Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Ashley Martinez-Humphrey, of San Antonio, an administrative clerk assigned to Naval Medical Forces Support Command (NMFSC), was recognized as the Junior Sailor of the Year by NMFSC Commander Capt. Walter D. Brafford at command headquarters. Additionally, Martinez-Humphrey, a 2010 graduate of Highlands High School, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for her professional achievement throughout fiscal year 2023. NMFSC develops and delivers integrated education and training that produces operational medical experts to project Medical Power in support of Naval Superiority. (U.S. Navy photo by Burrell Parmer, NMFSC Public Affairs/Released)

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Nov. 29, 2023) – Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Ashley Martinez-Humphrey, of San Antonio, an administrative clerk assigned to Naval Medical Forces Support Command (NMFSC), was recognized as the Junior Sailor of the Year by NMFSC Commander Capt. Walter D. Brafford at command headquarters. Additionally, Martinez-Humphrey, a 2010 graduate of Highlands High School, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for her professional achievement throughout fiscal year 2023. NMFSC develops and delivers integrated education and training that produces operational medical experts to project Medical Power in support of Naval Superiority. (U.S. Navy photo by Burrell Parmer, NMFSC Public Affairs/Released)

AGANA HEIGHTS, Guam (April 21, 2025) Hospitalman Morgan Schott thoroughly rinses a surgical instrument post-operation to prevent infection and maintain equipment integrity, ensuring warriors receive safe surgical support during their treatment at U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Guam. Schott is pictured in the hospital’s decontamination room in the sterile processing department. USNH Guam is a 282,000 square foot military treatment facility that supports the joint forces and strengthens the island by projecting forward-deployed medical power, delivering high-quality care, and forging strategic partnerships. The MTF and its staff of nearly 700 offers a broad range of primary and specialty medical services in support of more than 27,000 beneficiaries. (U.S. Navy photo by Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Clien Lester Guico)

AGANA HEIGHTS, Guam (April 21, 2025) Hospitalman Axel Iribe prepares and primes IV lines to ensure safe and efficient fluid delivery, reducing the risk of complications and ensuring warriors receive timely care to support their recovery at U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Guam. Iribe works in the hospital’s anesthesia department. USNH Guam is a 282,000 square foot military treatment facility that supports the joint forces and strengthens the island by projecting forward-deployed medical power, delivering high-quality care, and forging strategic partnerships. The MTF and its staff of nearly 700 offers a broad range of primary and specialty medical services in support of more than 27,000 beneficiaries. (U.S. Navy photo by Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Clien Lester Guico)

AGANA HEIGHTS, Guam (April 21, 2025) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Erick Arriaga Amador organizes and prepares multiple IV access supply sets, streamlining the treatment process and enabling rapid, consistent care for warriors in need at U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Guam. Arriaga Amador works in the hospital’s anesthesia department. USNH Guam is a 282,000 square foot military treatment facility that supports the joint forces and strengthens the island by projecting forward-deployed medical power, delivering high-quality care, and forging strategic partnerships. The MTF and its staff of nearly 700 offers a broad range of primary and specialty medical services in support of more than 27,000 beneficiaries. (U.S. Navy photo by Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Clien Lester Guico)

AGANA HEIGHTS, Guam (April 21, 2025) Hospitalman Axel Iribe prepares and primes IV lines to ensure safe and efficient fluid delivery, reducing the risk of complications and ensuring warriors receive timely care to support their recovery at U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Guam. Iribe works in the hospital’s anesthesia department. USNH Guam is a 282,000 square foot military treatment facility that supports the joint forces and strengthens the island by projecting forward-deployed medical power, delivering high-quality care, and forging strategic partnerships. The MTF and its staff of nearly 700 offers a broad range of primary and specialty medical services in support of more than 27,000 beneficiaries. (U.S. Navy photo by Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Clien Lester Guico)

250416-N-GP243-1009 AGANA HEIGHTS, Guam (April 16, 2025) Dr. Stephen Ferrara, acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, recognizes U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Guam’s Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Emily Pierce for her efforts in coordinating with local hospitals for a joint celebration of National Hospital Week 2025. Ferrara visited USNH Guam where he toured the military treatment facility and met with hospital leadership to learn more about their dual role in keeping warfighters fit to fight and delivering health care to beneficiaries on the geographically isolated island of Guam. (U.S. Navy photo by Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Clien Lester Guico)