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An enlisted airman’s journey to flight surgeon
Air Force Capt. (Dr.) Laura Barrera shares her journey from enlisted senior airman to a flight surgeon and emergency physician. She credits her success to the Uniformed Services University’s Enlisted to Medical School Preparatory Program, or EMDP2 — which charts a course for enlisted service members to become doctors, including challenging coursework, mentorship, and preparation for medical school.
Lapse in Federal Appropriations
The most recent appropriations for the Department of War expired at 11:59 p.m. EST on September 30, 2025. Military personnel will continue in a normal duty status without pay until such time as a continuing resolution or appropriations are passed by Congress and signed into law. Civilian personnel not engaged in excepted activities will be placed in a non-work, non-pay status. Visit www.dha.mil/shutdown for more information.
The Military Health System is an interconnected network of service members whose mission is to support the lives and families of those who support our country. Everyday in the MHS advancements are made in the lab, in the field, and here at home. These are just a few articles highlighting those accomplishments that don't always make it to the front page of local papers.
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The 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command opened the Army's first autonomous dining facility, Nov. 12, in South Korea, to explore how automation can improve food service operations. The pilot dining facility, called Market 19, combines automated food preparation, cooking and serving with soldier oversight.
On November 20, 2025, Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune's new Nurse Residency Program graduated its first cohort of nurses. The six-month program expounds upon the Nurse Internship Program, which was originally 6-weeks.
Barksdale Air Force Base is on track to establish a certified calibration lab for Ludlum radiation meters, making it the only base in Air Force Global Strike Command with this capability and one of two across the Department of War.
Excellence, integrity and compassion are Walter Reed’s values, and the medical center’s nursing team exhibits these qualities day in and day out.
For many TRICARE beneficiaries, TRICARE Open Season is the time to make a change to your health plan. As outlined in the TRICARE Choices in the United States Handbook, open season is the annual period when you can enroll or change your health care plan for the following year. This year, TRICARE Open Season began Nov. 10 and ends Dec. 9. Changes you make during open season are effective on Jan. 1, 2026.
Four of the Army’s newest nurses graduated from Evans Army Community Hospital’s Clinical Nurse Transition Program in a ceremony on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025.
Keller Army Community Hospital is actively working to integrate drone technology into military medical operations to enhance soldier health and safety.
Alaska Army National Guard members assigned to A Company, 1-168th General Support Aviation Battalion, transported a patient requiring advanced medical care from Scammon Bay to Bethel Nov. 18, after severe weather grounded civilian air ambulances for two consecutive days.
Researchers at Naval Medical Research Command submitted a provisional patent for a nanoparticle vaccine to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on September 9. This vaccine development method is intended to prevent malaria but can also be used to develop vaccines against pathogens that develop in the liver.
Army Capt. (Dr.) Kristan Baird shares her journey as a new mother pursuing a lifelong dream to become a doctor. As a U.S. Army medic, she was accepted into the Uniformed Services University’s Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program, known as EMDP2, designed for enlisted personnel from across the military services to become future military doctors. Now an anesthesiologist at Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Baird can’t “see myself being happier going a different route. I finally obtained this.”
Army Capt. (Dr.) Kristan Baird shares her journey as a new mother pursuing a lifelong dream to become a doctor. As a U.S. Army medic, she was accepted into the Uniformed Services University’s Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program, known as EMDP2, designed for enlisted personnel from across the military services to become future military doctors. Now an anesthesiologist at Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Baird can’t “see myself being happier going different route. I finally obtained this.”
Army Capt. (Dr.) Kristan Baird was a medic deployed in Afghanistan. Once home again, juggling family life and figuring out what’s next, she decided to become a military doctor. Her journey began in the Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program, or EMDP2, at the Uniformed Services University.
The Uniformed Services University is driving critical advancements in military medicine across its core colleges and institutes to enhance combat readiness and care for service members and their families.
The Defense Health Agency continues to fully cooperate with the ongoing criminal investigation being conducted by the Army Criminal Investigative Division regarding a military medical provider working at the Carl R. Darnall Army Women’s Health Center. Our first concern is for the patients and families affected by this situation. We know this news has created concerns and questions from our patients and our military community. Our patients and their families remain our highest priority as we respond to this situation.
A deep-rooted family tradition in Navy medicine gained another chapter recently at the graduation of the Navy Medicine Training Support Command’s Hospital Corpsman Basic Course Class 190-25.
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