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Our Best: PO1 Billie B. Estes

Our Best: PO1 Billie B. Estes

Amid the blazing heat, strong smells and rocket attacks, international service members work together to save the lives of coalition forces and Afghans every day. Among them is Petty Officer 1st Class Billie B. Estes, U.S. Navy hospital corpsman and intensive care ward leading petty officer at NATO Role 3, Multi-national Medical Unit. If a wounded service member in Afghanistan arrives at NATO Role 3 MMU, they have a 98 percent chance of surviving, said a military … Read entire article »

Filed under: Medicine, Military, Our Best: Military Women

Our Best: CPO Christina K. Ellis

Our Best: CPO Christina K. Ellis

Christina K. Ellis, Chief Petty Officer and hospital corpsman from Pittsburg, Texas, assigned to the Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 22, is currently serving in Kuwait awaiting forward deployment to Kandahar, Afghanistan. HMC Ellis, a 2007 graduate of American Intercontinental University, is the mother of four children, who reside in Pittsburg, Texas. Ellis is deployed from Navy Operation Support Center Fort Worth, Texas. Ellis is the Battle Aide Station Senior Medical Department Representative and leading chief … Read entire article »

Filed under: Military, Our Best: Military Women

Our Best: Navy Corpsman Edition

Our Best: Navy Corpsman Edition

BAKIT, Iraq (March 20, 2007) Hospital Corpsman 1st Class J. L. Knuth examines the face of an Iraqi child during a combined medical engagement in Al Anbar province. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Scott B. Wyatt Due to technical difficulties, I was unable to interview Jennifer Knuth. She’s on her third deployment to the AOR, with the first two being on the carrier Lincoln. She’s a single mom, with twin five year old girls. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Military, Our Best: Military Women

Our Best: Inoculation Babe

Our Best: Inoculation Babe

PACIFIC OCEAN (March 15, 2008) Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Elena Williams administers Anthrax vaccinations on the mess decks aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Lincoln is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans … Read entire article »

Filed under: Military, Our Best: Military Women