Warriors, families, and friends of EMFK, I hope your fall is turning out as good as ours. The temperatures have stabilized in the 80’s, the humidity is up a little, and our team is bustin’ their butt’s providing OUTSTANDING care to every person that comes to us. Each department is working on improving their effectiveness and efficiency, and has done an excellent job working smarter with our reduced staffing to put us at our Juliet (next det) staffing level 4 months earlier than planned. We are carrying out our mission without missing a step, and still have the ability to send warriors forward into Afghanistan, Iraq, Gulf of Aden, or wherever the need is at a moment’s notice. Well done to the entire crew of EMFK for getting down to business and making this transition happen in a professional, and highly successful manner.
I’d like to recognize a couple of our warriors. On November 4th, the USO recognized EMFK’s HM2 Alonzolopez as the USO Pacific Region’s Volunteer of the Year. HM2 Alonzolopez earned this recognition while stationed at NH Guam by putting in a significant amount of personal time and effort to ensure the USO program there met the needs of the warriors in the AOR. He went above and beyond what the normal volunteers do, and recruited others to assist, developed new programs to assist our personnel, and was the “go to guy” for anything and everything. He has continued this trend by spending his spare time in the Camp Arifjan USO, doing the same things, and developing programs to give our wounded warriors phone cards to call home with, and duffle bags full of clothing, toiletries and other sundries to assist them while they’re convalescing at EMFK. Well done to an outstanding EMFK Warrior, and a true shipmate!
Please also recognize HM1 Igmenhurtado who on November 5th became the 1st EFMK India Det warrior to reenlist. The ceremony was held at the US Embassy Kuwait, and the reenlisting officer was LCDR Sarmiento. Congratulations on your reenlistment, and thanks for Staying Navy and continuing to fight the War on Terror.
We’re well past the halfway point, and are keeping our focus on completing the mission safely, effectively and efficiently. For those of you that don’t know, we’ve managed to consolidate our incoming Juliet detachment into one wave reporting to NEMTI on January 4th. This is huge, as it's allowing these incoming warriors to spend the holidays with their families, and will allow India detachment to turn over to Juliet at one time, increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the transition process, and to redeploy home on time. We’ve also worked with our chain of command, along with NEMTI and its chain of command to get the training our warriors receive at NEMTI approved as meeting the requirements to go forward into Afghanistan or Iraq. We believe that this approval is imminent. This is critical to us, as we still are the NAVCENT medical’s rapid reaction force, and want all our warriors ready to deploy forward at a moment’s notice. We still have warriors deployed forward in Kandahar and Bastion Afghanistan.
We recently hosted visit a visit by the Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Ms Embry, the Navy Surgeon, General VADM Robinson, the Surgeon to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, RADM Smith, and the BUMED Force Master Chief, HMCM Martinez. They attended our 234th Navy Birthday Ball (pirate theme, courtesy of FTCS Almanza), conducted SG and Force calls, and discussed with EMFK leadership the way ahead for EMFK, and the need to look long and hard at where Navy Medicine is putting its scarce and critical medical assets. This is a priority for EMFK, BUMED, and our line commanders to ensure we have the right assets in the right locations to meet the mission.
As you back home are getting ready for Thanksgiving, know that we out here greatly appreciate and are thankful for your continuing support. That we are doing our duty, and will continue to fight the war on terror with all we have until properly relieved by Juliet detachment.
Until next time,
CAPT Lynn Welling
CO, EMFK
I’d like to recognize a couple of our warriors. On November 4th, the USO recognized EMFK’s HM2 Alonzolopez as the USO Pacific Region’s Volunteer of the Year. HM2 Alonzolopez earned this recognition while stationed at NH Guam by putting in a significant amount of personal time and effort to ensure the USO program there met the needs of the warriors in the AOR. He went above and beyond what the normal volunteers do, and recruited others to assist, developed new programs to assist our personnel, and was the “go to guy” for anything and everything. He has continued this trend by spending his spare time in the Camp Arifjan USO, doing the same things, and developing programs to give our wounded warriors phone cards to call home with, and duffle bags full of clothing, toiletries and other sundries to assist them while they’re convalescing at EMFK. Well done to an outstanding EMFK Warrior, and a true shipmate!
Please also recognize HM1 Igmenhurtado who on November 5th became the 1st EFMK India Det warrior to reenlist. The ceremony was held at the US Embassy Kuwait, and the reenlisting officer was LCDR Sarmiento. Congratulations on your reenlistment, and thanks for Staying Navy and continuing to fight the War on Terror.
We’re well past the halfway point, and are keeping our focus on completing the mission safely, effectively and efficiently. For those of you that don’t know, we’ve managed to consolidate our incoming Juliet detachment into one wave reporting to NEMTI on January 4th. This is huge, as it's allowing these incoming warriors to spend the holidays with their families, and will allow India detachment to turn over to Juliet at one time, increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the transition process, and to redeploy home on time. We’ve also worked with our chain of command, along with NEMTI and its chain of command to get the training our warriors receive at NEMTI approved as meeting the requirements to go forward into Afghanistan or Iraq. We believe that this approval is imminent. This is critical to us, as we still are the NAVCENT medical’s rapid reaction force, and want all our warriors ready to deploy forward at a moment’s notice. We still have warriors deployed forward in Kandahar and Bastion Afghanistan.
We recently hosted visit a visit by the Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Ms Embry, the Navy Surgeon, General VADM Robinson, the Surgeon to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, RADM Smith, and the BUMED Force Master Chief, HMCM Martinez. They attended our 234th Navy Birthday Ball (pirate theme, courtesy of FTCS Almanza), conducted SG and Force calls, and discussed with EMFK leadership the way ahead for EMFK, and the need to look long and hard at where Navy Medicine is putting its scarce and critical medical assets. This is a priority for EMFK, BUMED, and our line commanders to ensure we have the right assets in the right locations to meet the mission.
As you back home are getting ready for Thanksgiving, know that we out here greatly appreciate and are thankful for your continuing support. That we are doing our duty, and will continue to fight the war on terror with all we have until properly relieved by Juliet detachment.
Until next time,
CAPT Lynn Welling
CO, EMFK
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