USN Hospital, Supply & Chaplain Corps - AH Ships, Medical & Supply Units

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USS RANGER (CVA-61) TOP GUN Medical Department - Flight Surgeons pre-1975

 

 

 

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USS GUADALCANAL (LPH-7) Supply Department, Swiss Tex 1970's

 

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USS HAVEN (AH-12) In active service 1945 to 1957.

 

Haven took part in fleet maneuvers and provided hospital services for sailors through 1955 and 1956 and decommissioned at Long Beach 30 June 1957. She was placed in an "In Reserve, In Service" status, and remained moored at Long Beach acting as a floating hospital. She was struck from the Navy List on 1 March 1967. Haven was returned to the Maritime Administration Reserve Fleet on 5 June 1967.

 

Ball cap patch and rocker

 

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US Naval Hospital Pensacola Florida - NARMC - Naval Aerospace Regional Medical Center

 

 

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US Naval Hospital Pensacola Florida - NARMC - Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory

 

 

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Chaplain's Office, USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CVA-67) 1970-1971 Med Cruise

 

 

[Siamundo]

That's a neat JFK patch!

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On 5/27/2018 at 8:20 AM, Siamundo said:

That's a neat JFK patch!

Thanks,

Members, please feel free to add your Hospital/Supply/Chaplain Corps items to the topic

 

Here's another Carrier Medical patch

 

USS FORRESTAL (CV-59) Medical Department - Proud Professionals

 

 

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USS ESSEX (CV-9) A little something different, from the cartoonist drawing for the shipboard newspaper Essex Buccaneer circa 1944

 

 

 

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USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72) Nimitz class nuclear supercarrier commissioned in 1989 - Supply Department

 

 

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US Naval Supply Center Jacksonville, Florida

 

 

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USNS COMFORT (T-AH-20) Mercy class Hospital Ship in service since 1987 - Motto "Care of the Sick on the Sea"

 

 

 

USNS COMFORT (T-AH-20) Mercy class Hospital Ship in service since 1987 - Motto "Care of the Sick on the Sea"

 

 

 

USNS COMFORT (T-AH-20) Mercy class Hospital Ship in service since 1987 - Operation Enduring Freedom 2003

 

 

Iraq War (2002–03) Invasion of Iraq

Comfort was ordered to activate on December 26, 2002, and set sail for the U.S. Central Command area of operations on January 6, 2003. After stopping in Diego Garcia to embark additional medical personnel flown in from the National Naval Medical Center, the ship proceeded to the Persian Gulf to serve as an afloat trauma center in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Comfort remained in the Persian Gulf for 56 days providing expert medical care to wounded U.S. military personnel as well as injured Iraqi civilians and enemy prisoners of war. When Comfort returned to Baltimore on June 12, 2003, it marked the completion of a nearly six-month activation. During this time, the ship conducted more than 800 helicopter deck landings to bring aboard personnel, patients, and cargo. Comfort's Medical Treatment Facility had also performed 590 surgical procedures, transfused more than 600 units of blood, developed more than 8,000 radiographic images, and treated nearly 700 patients, including almost 200 Iraqi civilians and enemy prisoners of war

 

Comfort Faces Different War - Story Number: NNS030502-09Release Date: 5/2/2003 By Journalist Seaman Erica Mater, USNS Comfort Public Affairs http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=7213

 

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Naval Medical Clinic Portsmouth New Hampshire

 

 

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Supply Corps Iceland - "Ready For Anything" (pun on their 'ready for sea' motto)

Naval Station Keflavik, 6" x 5" patch

 

 

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USS KITTY HAWK (CV-63) Supply Department, Cold War, Philippine made

 

 

[Siamundo]

Nice patch Salvage Sailor. I do like older Kitty Hawk patches

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US NAVAL HOSPITAL KEFLAVIK ICELAND - Decommissioned in 2006

 

 

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USS SEATTLE (AOE-3) Sacramento class fast combat support ship in service 1969 to 2005

 

Supply Department - Ready for Sea (Note the rates on the crates)

 

 

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Naval Hospital Patuxent River, Maryland (NHPR)

 

The first medical facility at Patuxent River was an infirmary built in 1943. It was later designated as a dispensary. In the mid-50s, this command was designated a station hospital and was considered a department of the Naval Air Station. This command was originally designed as a 217 bed hospital. On 1 July 1968, the station hospital was designated a Naval Hospital under the management control of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED). The present facility was planned in 1962, and commissioned on 29 May 1969. The present organization provides ambulatory health care.

 

In 1998, Naval Hospital Patuxent River (NHPR) was converted to an ambulatory facility becoming NHC Patuxent River with the additions of Branch Health Clinics Indian Head, Dahlgren, and Naval Air Facility on Joint Base Andrews in 2009.

 

 

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USS WASP (LHD-1) Medical Department

 

 

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US Naval Hospital Rota, Spain

 

 

 

US Naval Hospital Rota, Spain

 

 

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NSS - Navy Exchange Service Station - Pump Jockey (later redesignated as Pump Block Salesman in the '75 reorganization).....

 

 

 

Bonus Photo: Messenger of the watch makes an announcement to all hands on the 1MC circuit, "the Roach Coach has made it's approach"

 

.......followed by $%@#!! slapping and smacking sounds as the Chief on watch 'adjusts' the messengers attitude........

 

"The Navy Exchange Mobile Canteen is now on the pier"

 

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USS DALE (CG-19) Supply Department - Ready to Serve

 

 

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Naval Hospital Pensacola Florida - Our History, Older than 26 U.S. states...

 

 

Naval Hospital Pensacola is in its second century of service and is one of the oldest and most respected military medical facilities in the country. It continues to provide health care to over 150,000 beneficiaries in its main facility and 10 branch clinics in 5 states.

 

Naval Hospital Pensacola began its service in January 1826. President Adams assigned the first surgeon and officer in charge, Navy Surgeon Isaac Hulse, to establish a hospital at the Pensacola Navy Yard in support of the West Indies Squadron. Dr. Hulse established the Naval Hospital by renting a 2-story house as a temporary medical facility, for $30 a month. Dr. Hulse would go on to spend 19 of his 33-year Navy career in Pensacola.

 

Although the establishment of Naval Hospital Pensacola was authorized in the 1811 Congressional Act which “…established navy hospitals…” a permanent facility was not completed until 1834. The first hospital was completed, at a cost of nearly $12,000; it was located about three-quarters of a mile from the Navy Yard on a 30-foot bluff. It was described as being 'outside the wall' of the Navy Yard. However, the hospital established its own wall - which can be seen today at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. It was a 12-foot-high brick façade enclosing the entire 15-acre compound. The wall was built so high as it was thought to keep mosquitoes out.....

 

History continues here

 

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USS JOHN S. McCAIN (DL-3) MAXIMUM SERVICE STORES GROUP

 

Mitscher class destroyer leader USS JOHN S. McCAIN (DL-3) In service 1953 to 1978. Reclassified DDG-36 in 1967. Named after Adm. John S. "Slew" McCain, Sr.