MAYPORT, Fla. (June 21, 2017) – Cmdr. John Williams, a Naval Branch Health Clinic Mayport dentist, conducts an annual dental exam on Coast Guard Chief Boatswain’s Mate Jimmy Allen. Five years after the Dental Corps was founded in 1912, the United States entered World War I. During that conflict, the Dental Corps expanded from 35 to more than 500 personnel, including 124 dentists commissioned in the regular Navy. ( Navy photo by Jacob Sippel, Naval Hospital Jacksonville Public Affairs/Released).

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