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NMTSC Sailor provides lifesaving first aid
March 7, 2024 — Petty Officer 1st Class Amber Sanders, leading petty officer of the religious ministry team at the Navy Medicine Training Support Center, was awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for providing emergency care to a civilian at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston on Feb. 29... MORE

240229-N-DQ752-1015 JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO FT. SAM HOUSTON, Texas (Feb. 29, 2024) Capt. Paul Allen, commander, Navy Medicine Training Support Center (NMTSC), presents Religious Program Specialist 1st Class Amber Sanders, leading petty officer of the religious ministry team at NMTSC, with a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal during a ceremony in Anderson Hall Feb. 29. NMTSC is the Navy component command that provides administrative and operational control over Navy staff and students assigned to the Medical Education and Training Campus and other medical programs in the San Antonio area. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Cheyenne Geletka/Released)

Navy Medicine Training Support Center holds change of command, retirement
October 13, 2022 — The Navy Medicine Training Support Center held a change of command and retirement ceremony for Capt. Ann “Annie” Case, former commanding officer of NMTSC, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Sept. 23. Capt. Paul Allen took the helm from Case as NMTSC’s commanding officer... MORE

Navy Medicine Training Support Center pins four new senior chiefs
June 10, 2022 — Four chief petty officers assigned to Navy Medicine Training Support Center, or NMTSC, were promoted during the time-honored tradition of the frocking ceremony at the Medical Education and Training Campus May 26... MORE

NMTSC remembers fallen corpsman during commemoration ceremony at namesake
June 9, 2022 — Navy Medicine Training Support Center Sailors hosted a commemoration ceremony honoring Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Jaime S. Jaenke at Jaenke Hall at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston June 2... MORE

Sailor 360 hosts cardboard boat race at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston
June 11, 2019 — Sailors from the Navy Medicine Training Support Command, Defense Health Agency and Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command competed in a cardboard boat race at the Medicine Education Training Campus pool May 24... MORE

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.

Navy Medicine Training Support Center kicks off Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society fund drive
April 3, 2019 — The Navy Medicine Training Support Center, or NMTSC, kicked off its annual Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, or NMCRS, active duty fund drive at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston March 1... MORE

Chief Petty Officer Mark Francesco, an instructor with the Biomedical Technician program at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, speaks to students of the Hospital Corpsman Basic program about the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society.

San Antonio Wardroom Association PDC Hosts Mock Promotion Board at the METC
February 8, 2019 — The San Antonio Wardroom Association, or SAWA, hosted a professional development mock, officer promotion board at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio Fort Sam Houston Jan. 18... MORE

Senior naval officers sit as board members of a mock officer promotion board at the Medical Education and Training Campus (METC). The board was comprised of officers from the Navy Nurse Corps, Dental Corps and Medical Service Corps, including Rear Adm. Tina Davidson, Navy Nurse Corps director.

Hospital Corpsman Basic students, instructor become first responders
September 11, 2018 — Two Navy Medicine Training Support Center, or NMTSC, Hospital Corpsman Basic, or HCB, program students put their training into action, acting as the first responders to assist a patient at the Veterans Affairs Emergency Room Aug. 27... MORE

Seaman Nicholas Earls (left), Seaman 1st Class Michael Aaron (center), an instructor with the Hospital Corpsman Basic (HCB) program, and Seaman Enea Preci (right), pose for a photo at the Medical Education and Training Campus. The three Sailors acted as first responders, assisting a patient who collapsed at the Veterans Affairs Emergency Room Aug. 27.

Nurse Corps officers wish WWII Navy nurse ‘Happy 100th Birthday’
August 16, 2018 — Five Navy Nurse Corps officers assigned to Navy Medicine Training Support Center, or NMTSC, and Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command, or NMETLC, visited the San Antonio Brookdale Assisted Living Facility to wish Blondina Porter, a World War II Navy Nurse, a happy 100th birthday Aug. 15... MORE

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 — Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general and chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; and Force Master Chief Hosea Smith Jr., Hospital Corps director, visited the Navy Medicine Training Support Center, or NMTSC, Aug. 2... MORE

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.

Navy Medicine Training Support Center commemorates Battle of Midway 75th anniversary
June 8, 2017 — The Navy Medicine Training Support Center, or NMTSC, staff held a ceremony June 6 commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Midway that was attended by hundreds of staff and students at the Medical Education and Training Campus, or METC, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston... MORE

The Basic Medical Technician and Corpsman Program Color Guard presents the colors during the singing of the national anthem at a commemoration of the Battle of Midway 75th Anniversary at the Medical Education and Training Campus June 6 at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. The ceremony consisted of a guest speaker, ceremonial laying of the wreath and singing of the Navy Hymn.

Navy Medicine Training Support Center Sailors gather, deliver donations to Louisiana
October 6, 2016 — Sailors at the Navy Medicine Training Support Center, or NMTSC, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston delivered supplies to Lafayette, La., Sept. 24 after collecting goods and donations for those hardest hit by the devastating floods in their neighboring state. ... MORE

Sailors from the Navy Medicine Training Support Center, or NMTSC, at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston, unload bottled water at a church in Lafayette, La., as part of a donation drive to help victims of the Louisiana flood Sept. 24. Overall, 3,840 bottles of water and more than 150 pounds of non-perishable food items, clothing and cleaning supplies were gathered and donated to the area.

San Antonio Association of Operating Room Nurses embraces Navy nursing
September 21, 2016 — Two Navy nurses from Navy Medicine Training Support Center, or NMTSC, and the Medical Education and Training Campus, or METC, from Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, were guest speakers at a gathering of the local chapter of Association of Operating Room Nurses, or AORN, Sept. 12... MORE

Lt. Cmdr. Annissa Cromer, Medical Education and Training Campus Surgical Technologist Program assistant Navy service lead, discusses Navy opportunities with local San Antonio perioperative nurses Sept. 12. Cromer is assigned to Navy Medicine Training Support Center as the assistant Navy service lead for the METC Surgical Technologist Program.