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Beyond the rank: CPO pinning ceremony becomes unique family experience
September 21, 2016
Navy Chief Petty Officer selectees wait to be “pinned” with their Chief Petty Officer anchors and presented their combination cover at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Friday. With the Navy chiefs is Army Sgt. 1st Class Dan Hitchcock, NCO in charge of the Combat Casualty Care Force at the Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston and the son of retired Master Chief Hospital Corpsman Clark Hitchcock. Hitchcock participated in Navy Medicine San Antonio’s CPO 365 Phase 2 Training, a Navy-wide program of intense leadership, physical fitness and Navy heritage training for CPO selectees, and was pinned and presented his combination cover.
Navy Corpsmen honor Medal of Honor recipient
August 25, 2016
Master Chief Petty Officer Tony Guzman (left), Navy Medicine Training Support Center senior enlisted leader, speaks to more than 100 military members, veterans and civilians attending the Seaman John E. “Jackie” Kilmer memorial service Aug. 15 in San Antonio. Kilmer was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor June 18, 1953 for his life-saving actions as a hospitalman Aug. 12, 1952, during the attack on Bunker Hill.
NMETC gets head start on Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
August 25, 2016
Pet therapy provides stress relief for Corpsmen students
March 4, 2016
Seaman Jeniffer Rodriguez, a student in the Basic Medical Technician Corpsman Program at the Medical Education and Training Campus on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, pets Lady, one of the Navy Chaplain Lt. Cmdr. Scott Adams’ certified therapy dogs, during “Pet Therapy” night at the Navy student barracks.
Memorial ceremony honors METC Sailor
February 5, 2016
Senior Navy and Air Force personnel bow their heads during the benediction at a celebration of life memorial ceremony Jan. 25 at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. The ceremony was held to remember Seaman Nenit Coltra, who worked at the Medical Education and Training Campus before she passed away Dec. 28, 2015, at 23 years old.
Navy’s installation boss visits ‘Military City USA’
December 17, 2015
Navy Corpsmen conduct toy drive in honor of fallen comrade
December 17, 2015
U.S. Navy Senior Enlisted Academy director visits San Antonio
October 2, 2015
Command Master Chief Petty Officer Rich Curtis, director of the U.S. Navy Senior Enlisted Academy in Newport, R.I, speaks to San Antonio area chief petty officers at the Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph main auditorium as part of a 10-city, 24-day whirlwind tour of Navy fleet-concentration areas. There are more than 10,000 active duty, reserve and student Navy Sailors, civilian employees and family members in the San Antonio area.
Fort Sam Houston Navy units pin new chief petty officers
October 2, 2015
Chief Hospital Corpsman Damien Bush (center) receives his anchors during a pinning ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. Navy Medicine Training Support Center and Navy Operational Support Center San Antonio came together to pin 24 chiefs following a six-week indoctrination phase.
Sailors, Marines honor 9/11 victims at local fire station
September 23, 2015
Sailors bow their heads during the invocation at a 9/11 commemoration ceremony Sept. 11 at San Antonio Fire Station 1