6.28.2004
From Military.com
Naval Medicine Celebrates Corpsmen's 106th Anniversary
The Navy Hospital Corps' 23,000 active-duty and Reservist hospital corpsmen celebrated their 106th year of service June 17.
In a celebration held at the Department of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), Force Master Chief Jacqueline L. DiRosa delivered an enthusiastic "Happy birthday, Hospital Corps," which resulted in shouts and applause.
Rear Adm. Dennis Woofter, BUMED chief of staff, and Rear Adm. Brian Brannman, director of the Medical Service Corps, also spoke at the event.
"This has been a great year for the Hospital Corps," said DiRosa. "I can't tell you how extremely proud I am of our men and women who wear this uniform. Thank you is not enough."
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Submarine To Become Arkansas Museum
The USS Razorback, a World War II submarine that is the world's longest-serving sub, is back in U.S. water, starting a voyage up the Mississippi River to become an inland museum in Arkansas.
The Navy decommissioned the 312-foot vessel on Nov. 30, 1970, and handed it over to the Turkish navy, which recently agreed after two-and-a-half years of negotiations to sell it to North Little Rock, Ark., for $1.
"This has never been done before - bringing a submarine back to the U.S.," said John Adams, a retired U.S. Navy officer and the project manager of the operation.
The rusty, barnacled Razorback entered the Mississippi on Saturday, towed by the same oceangoing tugboat that has been with it since its departure from Istanbul on May 5, and docked in New Orleans.
In about two and a half weeks, it is scheduled to get underway again, pushed up the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers by tugboat to North Little Rock, where it will become the centerpiece of a planned maritime museum.
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Pentagon Working on Criteria, Design for New Iraq, Afghanistan Medals
The Pentagon is ironing out criteria and design of two new campaign medals authorized by Congress to honor servicemembers who have deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
Before recessing in May, both the House and Senate authorized the two new medals. President Bush signed the legislation into law May 28.
Now it?s up to the Defense Department to design the medals and their ribbons, and establish the eligibility criteria, which could take up to a year, according to Pentagon spokesman Jim Turner.
The new medals are different from the Global War on Terrorism medals that President Bush signed into law in March 2003.
The Navy Hospital Corps' 23,000 active-duty and Reservist hospital corpsmen celebrated their 106th year of service June 17.
In a celebration held at the Department of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), Force Master Chief Jacqueline L. DiRosa delivered an enthusiastic "Happy birthday, Hospital Corps," which resulted in shouts and applause.
Rear Adm. Dennis Woofter, BUMED chief of staff, and Rear Adm. Brian Brannman, director of the Medical Service Corps, also spoke at the event.
"This has been a great year for the Hospital Corps," said DiRosa. "I can't tell you how extremely proud I am of our men and women who wear this uniform. Thank you is not enough."
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Submarine To Become Arkansas Museum
The USS Razorback, a World War II submarine that is the world's longest-serving sub, is back in U.S. water, starting a voyage up the Mississippi River to become an inland museum in Arkansas.
The Navy decommissioned the 312-foot vessel on Nov. 30, 1970, and handed it over to the Turkish navy, which recently agreed after two-and-a-half years of negotiations to sell it to North Little Rock, Ark., for $1.
"This has never been done before - bringing a submarine back to the U.S.," said John Adams, a retired U.S. Navy officer and the project manager of the operation.
The rusty, barnacled Razorback entered the Mississippi on Saturday, towed by the same oceangoing tugboat that has been with it since its departure from Istanbul on May 5, and docked in New Orleans.
In about two and a half weeks, it is scheduled to get underway again, pushed up the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers by tugboat to North Little Rock, where it will become the centerpiece of a planned maritime museum.
{More}
Pentagon Working on Criteria, Design for New Iraq, Afghanistan Medals
The Pentagon is ironing out criteria and design of two new campaign medals authorized by Congress to honor servicemembers who have deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
Before recessing in May, both the House and Senate authorized the two new medals. President Bush signed the legislation into law May 28.
Now it?s up to the Defense Department to design the medals and their ribbons, and establish the eligibility criteria, which could take up to a year, according to Pentagon spokesman Jim Turner.
The new medals are different from the Global War on Terrorism medals that President Bush signed into law in March 2003.
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