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NMTSC Sailor named 2025 Shore-Based BMET of the Year
June 11, 2026 — U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Kevinjay Flores, an instructor assigned to Navy Medicine Training Support Command at Joint base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, was named the 2025 Shore-Based Biomedical Equipment Technician of the Year by the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery on June 5, 2026... MORE

260504-N-KC192-1041 PORTSMOUTH, Va. (May 4, 2026) Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Kevinjay Flores, center, assigned to the Medical Education and Training Campus, is presented the Shore-Based Biomedical Equipment Technician of the Year Award by Dr. Michael McGinnis, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) executive director, during the 2026 Medical Logistics Symposium held on board Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, May 4, 2026. Flores was recognized for training the next generation of technicians, strengthening the technical readiness and reliability of equipment supporting deployed medical forces. The Navy Medicine Logistics Symposium aims to maintain a common operating picture and update the Medical Logistics community regarding the fiscal year 2026 Navy Medicine Campaign Order and the Navy MEDLOG goal to build a logistics system that delivers ready operational units to support the Naval Strategy. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Levi Decker)

Medical Education and Training Campus staff celebrate Healthcare Technology Management Week
May 31, 2017 — Navy, Army and Air Force staff, instructors and students at the Medical Education and Training Campus, or METC celebrated Healthcare Technology Management Week May 21-27 at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston... MORE

D. Calvin Jackson, a retired Army master sergeant biomedical equipment technician, or BMET, speaks to staff, students and instructors from the Medical Education and Training Campus, or METC, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston as part of Healthcare Technology Management Week. METC instructors from the tri-service biomedical equipment technician, or BMET, program planned daily events to raise awareness during the week.

BMETs keep medical mission moving
January 18, 2017 — Biomedical equipment technicians ensure medical equipment is serviceable, safe and properly configured to meet the 59th Medical Wing’s mission of developing warrior medics through patient-centered health care... MORE

Senior Airman Donnell Johnson, 59th Medical Logistics and Readiness Squadron biomedical equipment technician, uses a multimeter to check voltage on a circuit board during a service call Nov. 17 at the U.S. Air Force Post Graduate Dental School on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. A biomedical equipment technician ensures medical equipment is serviceable, safe and properly configured to meet the wartime and peacetime missions of the Air Force Medical Service. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jason Huddleston)