Background
The Fiscal Yr 2017 Nationwide Protection Authorization Act, Part 702, directed the Protection Well being Company (DHA) to imagine accountability for the administration and administration of healthcare supply by means of all navy medical therapy services, naval hospitals and clinics efficient Oct. 1, 2018.
Division of Protection (DoD), Division of the Navy and Navy Drugs have been ready to start a sequence of realignments and reorganizations to facilitate this switch of full management to DHA. However these plans have been halted of their tracks when the world skilled the brisk unfold of the Coronavirus which triggered the COVID-19 Pandemic outbreak.
For these entities, the transition of accountability was paused whereas Navy medical doctors, nurses, Hospital Corpsman, and different Companies medical and assist personnel have been deployed to a number of areas all through the USA. They have been additionally dispatched around the globe in an effort to thwart the pandemic and additional save lives.
The Transfers of Operate
After a six-month pause, the Division of Protection reengaged in overhauling the navy well being system by persevering with to switch the tasks and oversight of navy medical therapy services to DHA. Whereas the timeline for completion shifted, transitions continued to happen.
Some of the current transitions instantly impacted by the transfers and realignments was held this month, June 2022, in Williamsburg, VA.
Rear Adm. Darin Okay. Through, Commander, Naval Medical Forces Atlantic, and the senior market supervisor of the tidewater Army Well being System, made the keynote tackle on the historic ceremony which elevated Naval Medical Readiness Logistics Command (NMRLC) over its former Fast Superior in Command, basically swapping its order of authority and echelon standing.
This previous additionally served as a change of command ceremony, successfully bestowing upon the outgoing commanding officer, the final particular person to carry that title.
“There are only a few occasions the place we set up a brand new command. The importance of at present’s institution can merely be summarized as a crucial change to the distinctive mission that our logistics instructions have been tasked with and to make sure that our Sailors are constantly put first,” Rear Adm. Through stated.
He continued by explaining that the (group) change aligned with the transition within the navy well being system and Navy drugs’s very important mission in projecting Medical Energy for Naval Superiority.
“On the finish of the day, the very core purpose for this alteration is about warfighter readiness, and our potential to drive generate prepared medical and medically prepared forces,” Through stated.
Speeches
After the admiral congratulated Morrison for a job properly executed, the outgoing commanding officer shared just a few compassionate phrases with the viewers and his members of the family.
“There was by no means a uninteresting second round right here,” he stated. “Somebody as soon as informed me to get pleasure from my time within the seat as CO as a result of it should go by shortly, and it has. Right now marks a complete of three years because the CO and 5 years stationed right here on the command. This ceremony is the proper finish and the best closure to a really lengthy very busy, however profitable tour. It was an absolute honor and privilege to have been given the chance to guide such an distinctive group, and I’m pleased to have been part of the legacy that was underneath the identify Navy Expeditionary Medical Help Command,” he stated.
Grasp of Ceremonies, Cmdr. Janine Espinal, MSC, USN and govt officer of the command, invited all personnel attending to rise as the guts of the change of command ceremony is the act of studying the official orders.
“When directed by reporting senior, detach from Navy Expeditionary Medical Help Command and report back to US Fleet Forces Command, signed A. Holsey, Rear Admiral, Commander Navy Personnel Command,” Morrison learn.
Cmdr. Marcinkiewicz approached the rostrum and cited his orders.
“When directed by reporting senior, detach from Naval Medical Logistics Command and report as Commanding Officer of Naval Medical Readiness Logistics Command, signed A. Holsey, Rear Admiral, Commander Navy Personnel Command,” he learn.
After the orders have been learn and Cmdr. Marcinkiewicz formally relieved Capt. Morrison of his duties, for the primary time, in management of a newly reorganized command, Cmdr. Marcinkiewicz addressed the viewers because the commanding officer of the Navy’s most up-to-date echelon elevated command, Naval Medical Readiness Logistics Command.
“It’s humorous. In the event you would have informed Fireman Recruit Marcinkiewicz again in 1990, when he was stationed on the USS SAN DIEGO (LPD 22), that he can be attending his personal change of command ceremony sometime, he would have thought you have been loopy,” he stated. “You see, again then, though I used to be glad that I had joined the Navy, all I used to be eager about was ending my enlistment and getting out as a result of I used to be sure of 1 factor … the Navy life was not for me. Think about that. Life is form of humorous that method.”
He thanked a number of mentors who have been within the viewers and he thanks his workers from his beforehand command. He thanked his former commander, Capt. Steve Aboona and he thanked Rear Adm. Through for permitting him to imagine the function of performing commander in Fort Detrick for the previous 13 months.
However his most heart-felt acknowledgement went to his spouse, who couldn’t attend the ceremony as a result of she was quarantined in Europe after contracting COVID-19.
“Tomomi, you’ve got been there for me all through my profession patiently ready for me to return from deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan and ships’ deployments. And also you all the time know simply need to say and learn how to cheer me up when issues don’t go simply as deliberate … and within the navy issues typically don’t go as deliberate. And as I all the time say, we make an amazing workforce and I’m keen to begin the following chapter in my profession with you in my nook and as they are saying in Japanese, Aishstuda you, Tomomi (I like you, Tomomi).
Conclusion
At 10:35 a.m., Capt. Robert C. Morrison, USN, MSC was relieved of his tasks as commanding officer the place Cmdr. Matthew P. Marcinkiewicz, USN, MSC took the helm of NMRLC. Morrison grew to become the final particular person to carry the title of NEMSCOM commanding officer. Marcinkiewicz assumed command of the three actions that now fall underneath his management.
