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Navy Medicine is innovating and deploying critical capabilities to preserve lives at extended ranges across the maritime domain. These are necessary improvements to prevail in crisis and conflict.

"Ike" Clinicians Test Future of Navy Medicine The new en-route care system is Navy Medicine’s latest approach to the challenges posed by the Indo-Pacific region, where vast distances will affect the Navy’s ability to provide care for sailors and Marines. Unlike Navy Medicine’s approach to Afghanistan, where care and combat were closer together, allowing care to be delivered quickly, the shifting approach is how to be able to transport a patient over distance while providing care. #navymedicine #indopacom https://lnkd.in/eWKxaA9y

Big, better, and bold! That's the BEST way to describe the US Navy's future medical ship, the USNS Bethesda. Officially named yesterday by Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro, the USNS Bethesda will treat patients and provide stability across the Indo-Pacific region. Full story linked below! #ThisIsNavyMedicine

You might not know this but there are 2 large hospital ships (USNS Mercy [West Coast] and USNS Comfort [East Coast]. These ships can do an incredible amount of medical care up to and including brain surgery. Navy now introduces 3 new hospital ships designed to traverse waters with an easier emergency response. It’s a smaller, more agile hospital ship. One is called Bethesda (East coast), the other Balboa (West Coast), and the third is yet to be named(wagers on what location it might be named?). If you don’t know, now you do, hospital ships are protected under the Geneva Convention and can not be fired upon nor considered a war fighting ship in hostile conditions. If you hadn’t considered it before, consider now joining the worlds greatest Navy. Also, did you know Navy has the most aircraft over other services? Which Service do you think has the most boats?

Progress! An United States Air Force policy change will allow pilots to receive 60 days of #mentalhealth treatment without being taken out of #flight status, a notable policy update as the service works to destigmatize airmen seeking care. During the 2022 University Aviation Association conference, I learned how USAF was embedding mental health fitness into #cadettraining. The goal has always been to ensure physical fitness and readiness, now, it is doing the same thing with #mentalfitness. As I listened to the explanation from Dillon Small, PsyD, I thought putting it in that context removes the stigma. He also explained how USAF was putting in place support systems to prevent crises. During the World Airline Training Summit #WATS2024, we heard speakers discuss when mental health should be introduced into #training and most agreed at the very beginning of #flighttraining, in #flightschool. I agree. Small indicated this is all about developing peak performance. At WATS we also heard from Jason Davenhill who linked coaching with peak performance in the same way Small does. I These are important developments in developing air personnel. https://lnkd.in/dFDxWKCU Halldale Group Reyné O'Shaughnessy Andrés Ospina, MRAeS

"Embark on a journey into the future of maritime healthcare with our latest video, 'Seas of Healing.' 🌊🏥 Discover how the U.S. Navy is rewriting the rules of medical innovation with three state-of-the-art floating hospitals, designed to perform complex procedures and surgeries at sea. 🚢 Join us as we delve into the construction and capabilities of these Expeditionary Medical Ships (EMS) by shipbuilding firm Austal. From the proven Expeditionary Fast Transport Ship (EPF) platform to the groundbreaking features that enable intricate medical operations on the open waters, this video unveils the cutting-edge technology that will enhance the U.S. Navy's global medical support. 🌐 Learn about the EMS's dedicated medical functionalities, including containment, stabilization, evacuation, and patient transport in support of maritime operations (DMO). With a shallow draft providing extended reach and the ability to accommodate military aircraft like the V-22 Osprey and CH-53K, these floating hospitals are poised to redefine naval healthcare. 🔍 Dive deep into the details of Austal's impressive track record, having already delivered 13 EPFs to the U.S. Navy. The standard EPF, capable of reaching speeds up to 40 mph for distances of 1,380 miles, sets the stage for a revolutionary era in naval medical capabilities. 🌟 Don't miss out on this extraordinary exploration of 'Seas of Healing,' where innovation meets the high seas! Hit play, subscribe, and stay tuned for more updates on this groundbreaking project. #USNavy #MedicalInnovation #FloatingHospitals"

Do military helicopter pilots NEED to fly fixed wing trainers first? This Navy and Coast Guard program replaces fixed wing primary training with rotary trainers through a civilian contract, followed by advanced rotary training on military trainers. The Coast Guard and Navy would get helicopter pilots sooner and be able to train more of them each year. The pilots would get to their operational squadrons sooner, and start the clock on military service obligations earlier. This is good reading for prospective Coast Guard and Naval aviators, whether they aspire to rotary flight or not, since it describes the current training syllabus as well as the new hybrid. What do my aviation shipmates think? Is it about time for this change or should all aviators complete a fixed wing primary course?

This article is more evidence that we need to get out there and share our #stories and positive experiences of Naval service. You may not be able to recruit someone but you can plant the seed. 🤿💣🦀 #Navy

US Navy Aviator flight training may be about to undergo a pretty major change, and I was surprised to have not seen anything about it until coming across a U.S. Naval Air Forces LinkedIn post.   A pilot program for helicopter pilots is starting up that will be the first time the Navy has done helicopter only training. Up until this point, all Naval Aviators start the same way, with fixed wing primary (formerly in the T-34C, now in the T-6B). The Coast Guard Aviators have trained with the Navy the same way.   With this new program, 33 Navy and 15 Coast Guard prospective helicopter aviators will forgo primary, and instead go through contracted basic phase helicopter training at “The Helicopter Institute” in Fort Worth, Texas. Following completion of this training, they will move to Advanced Helicopter Training at NAS Whiting Field, Florida, where they will join a other students that have progressed through the traditional pipeline.   I always understood this to be something special about Naval Aviation training, that was considered to make better pilots. Much like the discussions of removing initial carrier qualification from advanced jet training in the T-45C, I am concerned that there may be long term training quality deficiencies that arise from changes like this. There may be money saved in the short term, but do we understand what we are giving up.   What will the long term impacts be to primary flight training instructor manning? I know I flew with a fair number of fleet helicopter aviators when I went through training. Perhaps the numbers will average out, loss of instructors and loss of students. Is the school in Fort Worth the long term solution? What is the projected cost to TAD students to that area for their period of training? Or would the contract move to Whiting Field, more like how the Army has contract instructors at Fort Novosel (formerly Rucker)? Is the Navy doing this to try to stem the loss of aviators to the airlines, further limiting the fixed wing hours that a helicopter aviator will leave the military with? Are the skills for excellence in helicopter operation different enough from fixed wing that we can actually increase the quality of training this way? https://lnkd.in/gC9mWsjF https://lnkd.in/g8YvCv8m

Here’s what I learned as a young Naval Flight Officer. You succeed by getting your job done. When I checked into my first squadron, the Commanding Officer assigned me one of the most trivial ground jobs as my collateral duty - Nav Logs and Records Officer. I was put in charge of our Chart Room where we kept hundreds of large folded paper maps and charts and flight publications that were critical to our crews’ safely navigating the P-3 around the world. The Chart Room was in shambles. Trash can was overflowing. It was the worst one of the six squadrons in our hangar! You couldn’t find what you needed. Publications were out of date, which was a safety issue. We often had to go down the hall to other squadrons to “borrow” charts and pubs from them. Flight currency entries into everyone’s flight logbooks were 2 months behind. “I need you to square that place away Fava,” the CO said. “Yes sir, will do!” I cleaned the place up, verified and ordered new inventory, and made new shelving units. I spent weekends in there making it happen. I also insured that everyone’s flight logbook entries were caught up and flight time was entered within 2 days of a flight. Within two months, it became the best Chart Room in the hangar. Within three months, officers from other squadrons started coming to our Chart Room to “borrow” stuff. Unbelievably, I got a Navy Achievement Medal for the work I did as the Nav Logs and Records Officer to enhance the overall safety posture of the sqaudron. That taught me that the boss has a list of things that they want to accomplish. The more you can help check things off their list, the more valuable you are to the boss and ultimately the organization. Whether or not you agree with his politics, I found President Obama’s recent advice to be spot on: “I've seen at every level people who are very good at describing problems, people who are very sophisticated in explaining why something went wrong or why something can't get fixed, but what I'm always looking for is, no matter how small the problem or how big it is, somebody who says, 'Let me take care of that.’” “If you project an attitude of, whatever it is that's needed, I can handle it and I can do it, then whoever is running that organization will notice. I promise.” “The best way to get attention is, whatever is assigned to you, you are just nailing. You're killing it. Because people will notice, that's someone who can get something done.” As I became the boss later in life, there were no better words to hear other than “I got it” from someone whom I knew I could trust to get the job done. I could then check a task off my list. My reward for getting the Nav Log and Records job done well was the CO gave me my first choice for my next job as the squadron’s Legal Officer. That was the first step towards my ultimately becoming a lawyer. Happy Veterans Day to all the men and women who have worn the uniform and gotten stuff done! #veteransday2023