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DAF selects company to lead METC recapitalization project
August 18, 2026 — The Department of the Air Force selected Layton/Gensler to lead the Medical Education and Training Campus Recapitalization project at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, utilizing an innovative Other Transaction Authority Agreement with Progressive Design Build...

Shots fired: BAMC combat medic reacts on instincts
June 7, 2024 — After work on Feb. 19, U.S. Army Spc. Anne Koller heard voices and went outside of her house to see what was going on. Next, to her surprise, she heard gunfire and saw her neighbor trying to make it back to his home saying he’d been shot...

Olympian trades spikes for boots, enlists as an Army medic
September 1, 2022 — Noah Akwu had three lifetime dreams growing up in Nigeria. He wanted to run in the Olympics, to move to America and to serve in the military as a medic, just as his father and grandfather had...

Nutrition Care Specialists learn skills, find opportunities
August 15, 2022 — The U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence trains Soldiers that have recently graduated from Basic Combat Training in the next step in their initial military education in a variety of medical specialties. One such specialty is not as widely known as that of the Combat Medic, yet is equally as important in maintaining a strong fighting force. Proper nutrition is critical to the U.S. Army in developing and maintaining a strong fighting force. It is the job of 68M Nutrition Care Specialist to provide healthy and nutritious diets for Soldiers and medical patients...

MEDCoE student helps save life of victim injured in road rage shooting
March 11, 2022 — On Feb. 19, Staff Sgt. Nicholas Newton was driving along the Highway 281/Interstate 10 interchange when he came upon a disturbing scene...

BAMC combat medic earns U.S. citizenship
November 5, 2020 — For most people, waking up as an American citizen is just a given – a circumstance of birth. For one Soldier at Brooke Army Medical Center, the right to be an American took more than a decade to earn...

Secretary of the Army sees combat medic training
April 19, 2018 — Secretary of the Army Mark T. Esper visited several units at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston April 17, including a guided tour of the 232nd Medical Battalion 68W Advanced Individual Training, or AIT, Program for the Combat Medic Program...