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News from NMC San Diego - 2008
Page last updated 1 Apr 2008
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Photos from Thursday 27
March were uploaded yesterday (31 March), and photos from Friday 28 March
and the Suture Awards were just uploaded today (1 April). Graduation photos from Saturday 29 March
will be copied to the CD that will be sent to all members of the training,
and will not be posted online. As soon as I've received all the photos, I'll
get the CD put together, then it will get duplicated and mailed. I'll post a
note here when it goes out.
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Just finished uploading
pictures from 26 March. While I have the photos for 27 March, and we will
collect more photos on 28 March, they probably won't be uploaded until after
the end of training. My focus for tomorrow (Friday) is to prepare the slide
show for graduation and work on processing all the service records. Today I
spent most of my time getting the group photos (one for Surgical Tech and
one for Nurses' Corps) off to the printer. Career night was wonderful; be
sure to ask your cadet about it! I will get the rest of the pictures
processed and uploaded after I come out of my coma. And remember, a CD with
all these photos, and more, will eventually find its way to you via USPS.
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Hello again. I warned you
that yesterday's load of photos was big. Guess what -- today has it beat. In
particular, there were a lot of photos of the suturing class. Take a look,
and the next time your cadet wants you to sew new flashes or rank on their
uniform, remind them they learned to sew!
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Greetings from sunny San
Diego. Photos from Monday, 24
March have just been uploaded (the evening of 25 March). Please be aware
that starting today you will see what your cadets are seeing, including lamb
hearts, pig eyes, chicken thighs (for suture practice), human brains, and
human legs. The POD (Plan of the Day) for Wednesday has also been uploaded.
One nice problem has arisen -- we've got almost too many pictures! The
Company Officers are doing a great job. I've been reluctant to cut out too
many pictures, which would decrease the chance of seeing your cadet, so the
pages will take a while to load. For example, according to my software the
gallery page for 24 March will take over 5 minutes to load if you're using a
dial-up connection. PLEASE BE PATIENT!
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Photos from Sunday, 23
March have just been uploaded (the evening of 24 March). The general pattern
HOPEFULLY will be that photos from one day will be uploaded the evening of
the following day. The PODs (Plan of the Day) for Monday and Tuesday have
been also been uploaded. Please be patient if delays occur, as we are all
very busy here and all have multiple jobs at the training. Enjoy the photos
as they come. Be aware that a photo CD of ALL the photos taken during
training and posted will be mailed out to everyone at some point after the
training.
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The time and location for
graduation have been changed. Graduation will now be at 1000 (10 a.m.) on
Saturday, 29 March at the FTC Fleet Training Center / Training Support
Center, 3975 Norman Scott Road Building 3290 (Operations/Administration),
San Diego, CA 92136. Directions are available thru the
Location & Travel page.
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Friday night, March 28, the
contingent will go to a special screening in San Diego of the movie
"Fighting for Life".
FIGHTING FOR LIFE - Powerful and
emotional, this real-life M*A*S*H for our times is the story of doctors and
nurses fighting on the frontlines in the battle for life. With extraordinary
access to combat support hospitals in Iraq, medevac flights with wounded
veterans, and military hospitals in the U.S. and Germany, director/co-writer
Terry Sanders interweaves three stories: military doctors, nurses and
medics, working with compassion, skill and dedication in the vortex of the
Iraq War; wounded soldiers and marines reacting with courage, dignity and
determination to survive and to heal; and students at USU, the "West Point"
of military medicine, on their journey toward becoming career military
physicians. Features the song "No Surrender" - Bruce Springsteen's haunting
elegy of compassion and determination. - View the trailer at
www.fightingforlifethemovie.com - 89 minutes. - Not Rated.
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If you would like to see what
your cadet is up to, the PODs (Plan of the Day) for each day are accessible
from the gallery page for that day. Just click on the button to the left (or
text link at the bottom) for the day you'd like to look at.
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Photos are being taken by
each of the 4 Company Officers, and will be uploaded pretty much every day.
Only a selection of the photos will be put on the website, but ALL
photos taken will be included on a CD which will be produced and mailed to
all cadets after the training. This CD will also include a slideshow
presentation of the week.
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We'll try to get a variety of
cadets' photos, BUT it is impossible for the officers to guarantee we'll get
a picture of every cadet in action.
News from NMC San Diego - 2006
In
2006 the cadets went rock-climbing on Saturday, July 15, at the
Vertical Hold (www.verticalhold.com/flash/index.html).
News from NMC San Diego - 2005
Photo
from 2005 Surgical Tech Training wins the NSCC 2005 National Photo Contest!!!
The photo below
is a thumbnail; left click on it to view the full sized photo, right click and
select "Save Target As" to download it to your computer.
Click here to
read the Navy Compass article on the training.
Click here or on the button to the left to
read cadet's comments about the 2005 training
The following was received from Dr. Merbitz, who conducted the lower
extremity dissection lab on Wednesday at Surgical Tech 2005:
Ms Eveland, I finally got a chance to write you
and thank you for the opportunity to represent the Navy to the Sea Cadets in
your new program. It was really an honor and privilege to be able to speak to
TWO groups of those intelligent and eager young people. And I really want to
thank YOU for your help and support that day as we made the first two
presentations on the first day of this new program. I really appreciated it!
Sincerely,
Charles Merbitz, DPM, CDR, MSC, USN, Head of
Podiatry NMCSD
CDR Rychnovsky replied that we should be thanking him, and the webmaster
agrees wholeheartedly. On behalf of all the cadets and staff of Surgical
Training 2005, a HUGE thank you and BRAVO ZULU to Dr Merbitz.
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