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Married couple joins Navy together, adjusting to military life
June 14, 2019
Mark and Pearl Alvarado of San Antonio enlisted in the Navy together in January, five months after they got married. The couple, who graduated from Southside High School last year, have both completed their basic training and are undergoing their technical training in the Navy.

Sailor 360 hosts cardboard boat race at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston
June 11, 2019
Sailors assigned to Navy Medicine Training Support Command, Defense Health Agency and Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command completed in a cardboard boat race as part of a Sailor 360 event at the Medicine Education Training Campus. The event was part of Sailor 360, a Navy initiative to develop innovative and creative command-developed leadership programs.

METC med tech student assists car crash victims
May 21, 2019
Airman 1st Class Colten Connelly simulates a c-spine stabilization on a “patient” during emergency medical technician training in the Aerospace Service Medical Apprentice program at the Medical Education and Training Campus. The technique is the same one he administered to a vehicle accident victim. The purpose of this skill is to prevent further injury to patients involved in a trauma. When this skill is completed appropriately, the patient is unable to move and will stay on the backboard until a physician evaluates them for spinal injuries.

METC Fitness Center opens new Parent Child Area
May 17, 2019
Feletia McLaurin, Medical Education and Training Campus Fitness Center fitness and sports manager, stands beside a mural of a tree she painted in the new Parent Child Area at the fitness that officially opens June 3. Located in a former workout room and storage space at the fitness center, the Parent Child Area has a play area and small table for children and includes a flat screen TV and DVD player for viewing children’s movies. In addition, it includes an area with new exercise equipment for parents to work out on while they watch over their children.

METC student responds to medical emergency
April 30, 2019
Airman Grace Dawson practices inserting a breathing tube during training in the Aerospace Medical Service Apprentice program at the Medical Education and Training Campus. Dawson, a student in the Medical Education and Training Campus Aerospace Medical Service Apprentice, or AMSA, program at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, applied her new medical skills in a real scenario when a fellow Airman suffered a medical emergency March 21.

METC respiratory therapy instructors train Fort Hood EMS paramedics
March 27, 2019
Staff Sgt. Modesto Ortega conducts emergency medical EMS transport and mechanical ventilation training for EMS/paramedics attached to Fort Hood and the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center's emergency department.

Spurs point guard Dejounte Murray tours Medical Education and Training Campus
March 5, 2019
Petty Officer 1st Class Jeremiah Hays, an instructor with the Surgical Technologist program at the Medical Education and Training Campus, and San Antonio Spurs player Dejounte Murray, perform a mock surgery in a simulated operating room. Murray's visit was organized ahead of the Spurs' Navy-themed Military Salute Night.

METC student overcomes challenges to fulfill dream of joining the Navy
January 30, 2019
Seaman Gideon Osei practices patient care by working on a mannequin in a training room at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. Osei, who emigrated to the U.S. from Ghana three years ago, graduated from the METC Hospital Corpsman Basic Program Jan. 28.

The Navy corpsman: carrying the legacy
January 8, 2019
Seaman Brandon Taylor, a corpsman, inserts a decompression needle into an essential care simulator manikin during shock trauma section drills. The drills focused on sharpening life-saving skills and capabilities.

METC histotechnician instructors make history
November 30, 2018
Tech. Sgt. Onyee L. Carter, a histotechnician program instructor at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, assists a student with a slide sample during laboratory training.

Council on Occupational Education lauds METC for ‘world-class’ tech training
November 19, 2018
Members of the Council on Occupational Education evaluation team meet with leadership and staff from the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston during the accreditation evaluation site visit in-brief.

Former USS Cole command master chief visits Navy students, METC staff
September 27, 2018
Retired Master Chief James Parlier observes a student conduct mass casualty training in the Hospital Corpsman Basic program at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Sept. 21. Parlier is joined by his great nephew, Petty Officer 3rd Class Shelton Carter (left), and HCB instructor Petty Officer 1st Class Renata Williams (right).

Nurse Corps officers wish WWII Navy nurse ‘Happy 100th Birthday’
August 16, 2018
Capt. Maryann Mattonen (left), Navy Medicine Training Support Center commanding officer, and Blondina Porter cut Porter's  birthday cake together with a Navy officer ceremonial sword at the San Antonio Brookdale Assisted Living Facility to wish the World War II Navy Nurse a happy 100th birthday Aug. 15.

Navy Surgeon General, Force Master Chief visit Navy Medicine Training Support Center
August 16, 2018
Petty Officer 1st Class Joaquin Cruz (right), an instructor at the Medical Education and Training Campus, greets Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general and chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery during his visit to Navy Medicine Training Support Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston.

JBSA Navy Medicine commands host Navy STEM externship visit
July 3, 2018
Lt. Cmdr. Kirby Jahnke, Navy Medicine Training Support Center, shows medical instruments to a tour group of San Antonio middle and high school guidance counselors June 27. The tour provided educators and counselors with a general overview of the Navy, to raise awareness of Navy career opportunities through a tour of the medical training campus.

Former champion boxer ‘El Maestro Ojeda’ graduates from METC Radiology Program
April 25, 2018
Before he became a service member, Spc. Reynaldo Ojeda was a force in the boxing ring who dominated opponents and won titles during his 12-year boxing career. Instead of preparing and training for fights, Ojeda is now focused on becoming a military radiologist after graduating from the Medical Education and Training Campus Radiology Program at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston April 26.

Uniformed Services University Offers Degree Opportunities for Enlisted Members
February 12, 2018
Dr. Kenneth Moritsugu (center), a member of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences board of regents, watches students in the Medical Education and Training Campus medical laboratory technologist course practice blood draws at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. The MLT course is one of several METC programs that offer enlisted students a degree pathway through USU’s College of Allied Health Sciences.

Front and Center: Medical Education and Training Campus instructor a mentor to students, instructors
February 8, 2018
Master Sgt. Robert George, Medical Education & Training Campus pharmacy training senior enlisted leader, speaks with a pharmacy student Feb. 5 at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. George leads Department of Defense’s pharmacy technician program prepares students to perform both inpatient and outpatient pharmacy operations in both traditional and non-traditional pharmacy practice.

Sisters serve, train together in different services at METC
January 29, 2018
Sisters and service members, Navy Seaman Michelle Panchana (left) and Air Force Airman 1st Class Gisella Panchana (right) were students together at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston from August 2017 to January 2018. Airman Panchana graduated from the METC Radiology Program Jan. 30, while Seaman Panchana is scheduled to complete the METC Pharmacy Program in April.

METC preventive medicine specialist program graduates first international military student from Liberia
October 26, 2017
Pfc. Yardy Collins from Monrovia, Liberia, and his fellow classmates wait for the start of the Medical Education and Training Campus preventive medicine specialist graduation ceremony Oct. 20 at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. Collins is the first international military student from Liberia to graduate from the program.