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JBSA-Fort Sam Houston hosts National Night Out with ceremony, motorcade
October 9, 2020 — Joint Base San Antonio leaders observed National Night Out by urging installation members to help their neighbors in fighting crime and keeping their communities safe during a ceremony at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston Oct. 6... MORE

Brig. Gen. Caroline Miller (left), JBSA and 502nd Air Base Wing commander, and Rear Adm. Cynthia Kuehner (right), Navy Medicine Education, Training & Logistics Command commander, render salutes at the start of the National Night Out ceremony at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston Oct. 6.

Navy Medicine unveils logos to support new command structure
March 4, 2020 — Navy Medicine unveiled a series of unifying logos March 3 to support the establishment of more than 60 new medical commands... MORE

Local Sailors honor Pearl Harbor survivor
December 11, 2019 — In commemoration of the 78th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Sailors from the Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, led by Rear Adm. Tina Davidson, attended a Dec. 6 ceremony honoring one of the survivors at Poet’s Walk, a Spring Hills Memory Care Community... MORE

Rear Adm. Tina Davidson, commander of Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command, speaks with William “Bill” St. John during a visit to Poet’s Walk in San Antonio Dec. 6 about his experience during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Veterans honored at San Antonio wreath-laying ceremony
November 14, 2019 — Capt. Elizabeth Montcalm-Smith, acting deputy commander of Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command, participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Alamo and a parade to honor veterans in San Antonio Nov. 11... MORE

Capt. Elizabeth Montcalm-Smith (center), acting deputy commander of Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command, joined by other local service leaders, salutes for the playing of taps during the 2019 U.S. Military Veterans Wreath-laying Ceremony at the Alamo.

City of San Antonio honors Navy's 244th birthday
October 25, 2019 — Members of Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command, or NMETLC, and Navy Medicine Training Support Center, or NMTSC, gathered at the San Antonio City Hall during a City Council meeting Oct. 17 to celebrate the Navy’s birthday... MORE

Sailors from Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command, Navy Medicine Training Support Center, Navy veterans and retirees, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, and city council members after honoring the Navy’s 244th birthday during a city hall meeting. Capt. Elizabeth Montcalm-Smith, NMETLC acting deputy commander, spoke on behalf of San Antonio Navy, thanking the mayor and city council members for their commitment to the Navy and the military.

San Antonio Sailors honor submarine vet’s life
September 27, 2019 — Sailors assigned to Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command, Navy Medicine Training Support Center and Navy Recruiting District San Antonio attended the graveside service of a Navy veteran in Killeen, Texas, Sept. 26... MORE

Navy Recruiting District San Antonio Sailors carry the casket for Petty Officer 3rd Class Mark Lyle Walker, a sonar technician (submarine), in Killeen, Texas, Sept. 26 . Walker, a submarine veteran, had no family or next of kin, prompting the Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command, Navy Medicine Training Support Center and NRD-SA Sailors to make the two-hour drive from Joint Base San Antonio to honor Walker's Navy service.

Chief Petty Officer history, tradition, heritage resonate at JBSA CPO Pride Day
September 12, 2019 — An honorary Master Chief Petty Officer, also the wife of the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, highlighted the annual Chief Petty Officer Pride Day events hosted by the Joint Base San Antonio area CPOs at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 76 Sept. 7... MORE

Honorary Master Chief Petty Officer Ima Black, wife of Retired Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Delbert Black, the first MCPON, speaks to fiscal year 2020 CPO selects, and active duty, retired and CPO veterans during CPO Pride Day at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 76. San Antonio CPO Pride Day consisted of a speaking event with Black; military heritage events; marching and singing cadences; and interacting with active duty, retired and CPO veterans.

Military units participate in City of San Antonio’s World Heritage Festival
September 10, 2019 — In support of the City of San Antonio’s annual World Heritage Festival, service members from Navy Recruiting District San Antonio, the Army’s San Antonio Recruiting Battalion, Marine Corps Recruiting Station San Antonio, Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command, Navy Medicine Training Support Center, the Marine’s 4th Reconnaissance Battalion, and the Air Force’s 383rd Training Squadron participated in Mission Pachanga held at Mission Park Pavilion Sept. 7... MORE

Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark Hambrick, assigned to Navy Recruiting District San Antonio, discusses the various rates of the Navy with an attendee of Mission Pachanga during the annual World Heritage Festival held at Mission Park Pavilion Sept. 7.

NMETLC Sailors conduct community volunteer project
August 21, 2019 — Sailors assigned to Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston performed volunteer work at Patrolman Guadalupe Martinez Park July 30. The 12 volunteers painted picnic tables, trimmed trees, cleaned playground equipment and picked up litter... MORE

Petty Officer 2nd Class Tony Lenard (left) and Petty Officer 2nd Class Noe Lopez pick up litter at Patrolman Guadalupe Martinez Park during a community volunteer project July 30. The project was part of the Navy Sailor 360, a command-level program for junior enlisted, senior enlisted and junior officers, designed to strengthen and develop leadership through community outreach events, classroom discussions and physical training. Lenard and Lopez are assigned to the Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston.

Sailors take center stage at San Antonio Missions baseball game
June 20, 2019 — Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command’s deputy commander threw out the traditional first pitch for the San Antonio Missions’ minor-league baseball game as part of the Missions’ Military Appreciation Night June 12... MORE

Navy Information Operations Command Texas presents the colors during a San Antonio Missions baseball game in honor of military appreciation night June 12.

NMETLC volunteer effort helps hungry across southwest Texas
June 13, 2019 — Sailors from the Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston conducted a community outreach event at the San Antonio Food Bank June 11, helping process 15,433 pounds of food, which will help provide 12,346 meals for families suffering from hunger... MORE

Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command Sailors sort food during a volunteer community outreach event at the San Antonio Food Bank June 11. The outreach event was part of the Navy’s Sailor 360, a command-level program for junior enlisted, senior enlisted and junior officers, designed to strengthen and develop leadership through outreach events, classroom discussions and physical training.

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.

NMETLC Sailors help clean up community park
March 29, 2019 — Sailors assigned to Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command, or NMETLC, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, participated in a local community relations project March 28... MORE

Chief Petty Officer Irene Aguilar, assigned to Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, disinfects parts of playground during a community relations event held at Martinez Park during a Sailor 360 event. Sailor 360 is a command-level program for junior enlisted, senior enlisted and junior officers designed to strengthen and develop leadership through COMREL events, classroom discussions and physical training events.

The Navy corpsman: carrying the legacy
January 8, 2019 — The screams of the wounded and dying filled the stale room as medical workers rushed to check for pulses, resuscitate the unconscious and stop the bleeding. The darkness was pierced by red and green lights that illuminated pools of blood on the floor. Nervous hands scrambled to find the proper medical equipment amid the chaos of the combat environment that surrounded them, working frantically and disregarding their own safety. Fortunately, none of this is real; it's a simulated casualty exercise, part of the training every future Navy hospital corpsman undergoes. The rate is actually the largest and most decorated in the Navy... MORE

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.

Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command announces Sailor of the Year
December 10, 2018 — A Navy Cardiovascular Technician Program instructor at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston was selected as the Navy Medicine Education, Training and... MORE

Rear Adm. Tina Davidson, commander of Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command, and Command Master Chief Petty Officer Richard Putnam, NMETLC, present Petty Officer 1st Class Daniel Guillen, NMTSC hospital corpsman, with a plaque in honor of his selection as NMETLC regional Sailor of the Year Dec 6, 2018, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

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.

Joint Base San Antonio has a new admiral
August 7, 2018 — Command of Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command, or NMETLC, changed Aug. 3 when Rear Adm. Tina Davidson relieved Rear Adm. Rebecca McCormick-Boyle during a combined change of command and retirement ceremony at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston... MORE

Rear Adm. Tina Davidson, incoming commander, Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command, salutes after assuming command at a ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Aug. 3. Davidson relieved Rear Adm. Rebecca McCormick-Boyle during a combined change of command and retirement ceremony at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston.

JBSA Navy Medicine commands host Navy STEM externship visit
July 3, 2018 — San Antonio area Navy Medicine commands hosted 26 middle and high school guidance counselors, and high school chemistry and health professions educators June 27 at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston as part of a summer externship focused on high school student career preparation and exploration... MORE

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.

Navy offers new online options for continuing education units
January 18, 2018 — Continuing Education Units, or CEUs, may now be earned online via the Veterans Health Administration, or VHA, “Train,” said Capt. Ethan Josiah, head of the Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command, or NMETLC, Staff Education and Training Program Management Office, or SEAT PMO, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston... MORE

Cmdr. David A. Deike, NMETLC Staff Education and Training (SEAT) east region liaison (right), and Thomas B. Doke, NMETLC SEAT west region liaison, discuss the web-based Veterans Health Administration (VHA) “Train” system. Navy Medicine personnel may now earn required Continuing Education Units (CEU) at no cost to them, their command or Navy Medicine via Train, the VHA's online learning management system (LMS).

San Antonio hosts annual Navy birthday celebration
October 26, 2017 — Navy commands across southern Texas gathered in downtown San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 20 to mark celebrate 242nd birthday of the United States Navy where Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Steven S. Giordano was the night’s guest speaker... MORE

Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Steven S. Giordano, left, and Rear Adm. Rebecca McCormick-Boyle, right, commander, Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command (NMETLC), cut the ceremonial cake with Seaman Recruit Harley Valdez, the youngest Sailor in attendance, at the Texas Regional Navy Birthday Ball Oct. 20 in San Antonio, Texas. More than a dozen sea service commands in the San Antonio area gather annually to celebrate the Navy birthday in a joint celebration.