First, turn down your volume slightly. Next, check out this video for a last bit of pre-Christmas cheer: [HTML1] That’s Hospitalman Apprentice Robert Everhart, surprising his girlfriend, Michelle Gungon, with a marriage proposal at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego on Monday. Robert, attending “C” school in San Antonio, came home a day early. “I was expecting to see him today at 5,” Michelle said in a Christmas Eve interview. “I had this whole thing planned out.” She said yes anyway, to the applause (and loud cheers/shouts/huzzahs/etc.) of her co-workers. Robert, 30, comes from a Navy family — his father…
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Two corpsmen put their medical skills to use when they happened upon an unconscious man during convoy operations in Djibouti. Local nationals flagged down members of Battalion Landing Team 3/2, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, on May 23 to help the young man, an apparent drowning victim who was not breathing when the sailors arrived, a Defense Department release said. Chief Hospital Corpsman (FMF/PJ) Adrian Figueroa and Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class James Haddenham were able to resuscitate the man and get him to Arta City Hospital, where is expected to recover, the release said. “The actions of our corpsmen on the…
Two sailors assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego were enjoying an off-duty day at the zoo Nov. 23 when their lifesaving skills were put to the test. Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Stephanie Moor saw a group of people standing around an unresponsive man who was about 65-years old, according to a Navy press release. “I informed [the bystanders] that I was a corpsman from the Cardiac Rehab Clinic at NMCSD and asked if they wanted help,” Moor said in the release. Ens. Janean Wujek, a registered nurse in the mental health department, was at the zoo with her family…
The Fleet Reserve Association today announced that it has established scholarships for the children of enlisted Navy medics. The Colonel Hazel Elizabeth Benn Scholarship Fund provides a $2,000 scholarship “to an unmarried, dependent child of those who have served or are now serving” in the Navy “as enlisted medical personnel with the U.S. Marine Corps. ” The Benn Scholarship is available to “qualified applicants” entering their freshman or sophomore year of college. The Benn Scholarship is open to all such children regardless of their parents’ affiliation with FRA, according to a press release. Other FRA Education Foundation scholarships are available…
