By Capt. Bruce A. Cohen, force surgeon, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command Recently I had the great experience of working with a team of U.S. Navy medical specialists deployed to Acapulco, Mexico, Search, Rescue and Diving School to teach a training course focusing on hyperbaric oxygen therapy and diving medicine in response to a request from [...]
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By Lt. Kimberly Edgel, deputy director, Parasitology Department, Naval Medical Research Unit 6, Peru *Editor’s note: This is the final blog in a six part series from NAMRU-6. Parasitic diseases have had devastating effects on military operations for millennia and this may have even changed the course of history. It has been speculated that both [...]
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It is with great pleasure that we present to you the latest edition of The Grog, A Journal of Navy Medical History and Culture. In this issue, we offer our readers an original assortment of stories, essays, trivia and book reviews covering the topics of: the life and lessons of the heroic World War I [...]
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By Lt. Ana Soper, Ph.D, neuropsychologist, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island Although the trail from civilian to Navy officer was not the trail I had planned to take, the experience of being new to the Navy has given me some of the most broadening and poignant moments of my life (e.g., hearing Old Glory [...]
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Military Health System Team, For almost one year, the Department has been engaged in extensive planning efforts to implement the Deputy Secretary of Defense’s March 2, 2012, memorandum on MHS Governance. On Jan. 2, the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was signed into law. While the law includes a broad array of provisions that [...]
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