The 87th Medical Group celebrated a major milestone in military medical readiness with the graduation of two airmen from the inaugural Air Force Paramedic Currency Platform at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 22, 2025.

As the U.S. Navy observes Mental Health Awareness Month this May, Naval Medical Center San Diego recognizes a grassroots effort that continues to make a profound difference in the lives of service members and their families: the creation of the Mental Health Roadmap by Dr. Moriah Nissan and other instrumental contributors.

Medical readiness is combat readiness, and while we’re grateful to have the current moment of relative peace, we must remain vigilant. When the enemy strikes, we need our service members physically fit, mentally aware, and healthy to defend our nation.

Interoperability is one of the biggest challenges facing service members and veterans in their ongoing, lifelong health care, Dr. Stephen Ferrara, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, recently told a group of military and veteran healthcare leaders.

Expeditionary Medical Facility Djibouti is the Navy’s only standing forward-deployed Role II military trauma center on the African continent. It provides care for the personnel stationed on Camp Lemonnier and acts as an evacuation and referral hub for down range forces throughout the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility.

Twenty-seven U.S. medical professionals from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Dental Health Activity Rheinland-Pfalz, Public Health Command Europe and the North Dakota National Guard concluded a medical readiness exercise on May 23, 2025 in Accra, Ghana as part of African Lion 2025.

This letter to the editor addresses the methodology from the article Correlation Between Mean Temperature and Incidence of Tick-borne Diseases Among Active Duty Service Members in the Contiguous U.S., 2000-2023, published in the March 2025 issue of MSMR.

MSMR publishes a monthly update of reportable medical events for both active component members and Military Health System beneficiaries. Military Health System care providers and public health officials document reportable medical events through the Disease Reporting System internet.

This annual update provides more recent data on the incidence of exertional hyponatremia, a condition in which water and electrolytes lost during or after heavy exertion are replaced only by water, which can lead to death or serious morbidity if left untreated.

This annual update provides more recent data on the incidence of exertional rhabdomyolysis, a pathologic muscle breakdown associated with strenuous physical activity.

Since 2001, MSMR has published regular updates on the incidence of heat illness among U.S. active component service members. This update presents summaries of heat stroke and heat exhaustion case counts, incidence rates, and locations between 2020 and 2024.

In today's fast-paced world, where constant busyness is the norm, making time for personal well-being often falls to the bottom of the priority list and is treated as an afterthought. However, self-care is not simply about indulgence—it is a vital component of maintaining balance between life’s responsibilities and personal health.

In a significant step to enhance operational readiness, Naval Medical Readiness Training Command Fort Belvoir recently conducted its inaugural Field Training Exercise, projecting a critical focus on combat casualty care and the rapid deployment to field medical facilities.

This spring, the New Hampshire Army National Guard Medical Readiness Detachment took the lead on a groundbreaking joint-service humanitarian mission, Operation Arctic Care 2025, delivering critical health services to some of the most remote and isolated communities in Arctic Alaska.

Recognizing a hazard that needs to be monitored is nothing new to those in the public health field because that’s what they do--identify, assess and control risks to protect population health, from infectious diseases and environmental exposures to occupational threats. The goal? To make operations safer, smarter, and to preserve readiness.