Pfc. Rebekah Rodriguez, a combat medic specialist assigned to the 108th Area Support Medical Company, 213th Regional Support Group, Pennsylvania Army National Guard, checks the controls of an M-997A2 Four Litter Ambulance with the help of an instructor during training at the Sustainment Training Center (STC) at Camp Dodge Joint Maneuver Training Center in Johnston, Iowa Aug. 5, 2019. Rodriguez was learning how to properly perform preventative maintenance checks and services (PMCS) on a vehicle that will be used during the field training exercise (FTX) of her annual training. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class HollyAnn Nicom)
Sgt. Victoria Lokken, a Korean Linguist with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Radio Battalion detachment, organizes equipment for training aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), at sea, August 5, 2019. Wasp, flagship of the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group, with embarked 31st MEU, is operating in the Indo-Pacific region to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as ready-response force for any type of contingency, while simultaneously providing a flexible and lethal crisis response force ready to perform a wide range of military operations. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Cameron E. Parks)
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (August 5, 2019) Vice Adm. Matthew Kohler, deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare (OPNAV N2N6) and director of naval intelligence, (center) poses for a photo with students of the Information Warfare Officer Intermediate Course (IWOIC) offered by Information Warfare Training Command Virginia Beach. The IWOIC provides the concepts, knowledge, and skills necessary for information warfare (IW) officers to succeed in O4 milestone tours. Training focuses on the integrated application of IW at the operational and tactical levels of war. Senior officers provide mentorship on leadership and ethics. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Tiya DeGhetto/Released)
Maj. Paul Blycheck, 911th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron flight nurse, teaches Capt. Ashley Stough, 911th AES flight nurse, Airman Isabella Hixson, 911th Aeromedical Staging Squadron medical technician, and Lt. Col. Jessica Brantner, 911th AES flight nurse, how to clear an obstructed airway on a patient at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania June 19, 2019. The training was in preparation for a possible scenario the next day with mechanical mannequins. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Grace Thomson)
BREMERTON, Wash. (Aug. 6, 2019) Capt. Shannon Johnson, Naval Hospital Bremerton commanding officer, and Ensign Erwin Roces, assigned to NHB, represent the most seasoned and junior of their corps during the traditional cake cutting at the 72nd birthday of the Medical Service Corps (MSC) at NHB Aug. 6, 2019. The MSC, officially established Aug. 4, 1947, is comprised of health care administrators, clinicians and scientists trained and focused on ensuring warfighter's medical readiness, whenever and wherever they are called upon. NHB supports more than 60,000 military families in West Puget Sound, shaping military medicine through training, mentoring and research to ensure a ready medical force and operationally ready force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan Riley/Released)
NEW YORK (July 27, 2019) Lt. Cmdr. Monica Ormeno, MC, USN, a child and adolescent psychiatrist assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD), addresses the Medical Women's International Association (MWIA), an international group of women physicians at their centennial meeting while Lt. Cmdr. Danielle Barnes, MC, USN, a NMCSD pediatrician, looks on. The meeting was hosted by the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA), a U.S.-based women physicians’ group, at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott. During the event MWIA recognized the dual nature of service, to both their patients and their respective nations, of eight women military and veteran physicians. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Bryan Ilyankoff/Released)
KINGSVILLE, Texas (Aug. 02, 2019) - Marine 1st Lt. Catherine Stark (center) with her mother (left) and sister (right) during her winging ceremony aboard Naval Air Station Kingsville. Stark will continue to her assigned fleet replacement squadron (FRS) to fly the F-35C II Joint Strike Fighter jet aircraft. Stark is the first female Marine to be assigned to the Navy's F-35C FRS. (U.S. Navy photo by Anne Owens/Released)