Sign of the times…The worn signpost was a stark reminder that it’s 6,933 miles from Naval Hospital Bremerton (NHB) to the NATO Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit (MMU) at Kandahar Airfield (KAF), Afghanistan, where Navy Medicine personnel, including approximately 135 staff members from NHB, deployed serving at what was the Navy’s longest serving combat casualty hospital from 2009 to 2020. Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Isaac Kargbo was in his second tour at NHB when he deployed down range from October, 2019 to June, 2020, serving as the leading petty officer for the Radiology Department. Under Nav
Sign of the times…The worn signpost was a stark reminder that it’s 6,933 miles from Naval Hospital Bremerton (NHB) to the NATO Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit (MMU) at Kandahar Airfield (KAF), Afghanistan, where Navy Medicine personnel, including approximately 135 staff members from NHB, deployed serving at what was the Navy’s longest serving combat casualty hospital from 2009 to 2020. Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Isaac Kargbo was in his second tour at NHB when he deployed down range from October, 2019 to June, 2020, serving as the leading petty officer for the Radiology Department. Under Navy Medicine leadership, decisive, sustained trauma and casualty care was continually provided by staff like Kargbo to those in need, many also far from home. The 98 percent casualty survival rate meant that more battlefield casualties than ever before survived to make it home. That old worn signpost made it back, too. As did Kargbo and every other battle-tested man and woman from Naval Hospital Bremerton
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