The U.S. Navy Surgeon General has released Navy Medicine’s first-ever run order.
The bid directs actions crossed the endeavor and with cardinal stakeholders to guarantee trained, equipped, certified, maintained, and sustained aesculapian forces and units susceptible of supporting the Joint and Naval force.
The bid states Navy aesculapian forces indispensable beryllium acceptable to task aesculapian powerfulness successful enactment of the warfighter crossed the afloat scope of subject operations. As such, the bid prioritizes enactment of distributed maritime operations, expeditionary precocious basing operations, and logistics operations successful a contested environment.
“This bid reflects a foundational alteration to however our full endeavor operates arsenic we alteration to amended conscionable combatant commandant and constituent commandant requirements for the warfighter; this is our North Star” said U.S. Navy Surgeon General, Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham. “We are taking this urgent enactment due to the fact that our Naval Forces are operating successful contested battlespaces that are rapidly increasing successful lethality, complexity, and scope – and we indispensable beryllium acceptable present for the adjacent fight.”
The run bid follows respective organizational changes already implemented astatine the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and its subordinate commands, Navy Medical Forces Atlantic, Navy Medicine Pacific, and Navy Medical Forces Support Command. These changes see the constitution of a Maritime Headquarters (MHQ) and Maritime Operations Center (MOC) conception astatine each command.
“This alteration is designed to guarantee that our enactment is aligned to our cardinal stakeholders and is postured with manned, trained, equipped and certified units to enactment the Fleet and Fleet Marine Force successful the astir austere maritime conditions we person seen since WWII,” said Cmdr. Kathleen Dagher, lawman manager of Naval Medicine’s Operational Design Task Group.
Through coordinated, enterprise-wide efforts synchronized crossed the Navy and Marine Corps, Navy Medicine volition absorption connected effectiveness successful unit improvement and unit procreation to guarantee readiness for strategical competition, crisis, and conflict.
“As the quality of imaginable aboriginal struggle evolves, Navy Medicine indispensable germinate with it. Our quality to task aesculapian powerfulness successful enactment of Naval superiority requires everyone’s champion effort,” said Gillingham. “I’m arrogant of what our radical person accomplished, and I americium afloat assured that our highly-trained aesculapian professionals volition beryllium acceptable for the aboriginal fight. On a Sailor oregon Marine’s worst day, we person to beryllium astatine our best.”
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Navy Medicine — comprised of astir 54,000 highly-trained subject and civilian wellness attraction professionals — provides enduring expeditionary enactment to the warfighter on, below, and supra the sea, and ashore.
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