This week I had the honor of presiding at the final Navy Change of Command and Transfer of Authority ceremony at Expeditionary Medical Facility-Kuwait (EMF-K) during which Navy Capt. Dick Turner, NC, was relieved by Army Col. Joe Robinson, MC, USA, commander of the Army’s 325th Combat Support Hospital (CSH). On this momentous occasion Nov 3., the Navy’s seven and a half year long commitment to provide health service support in Kuwait came to an end.
Navy Medicine assumed this mission April 1, 2004 from the Army’s 801st CSH in a Transfer of Authority ceremony at Camp Doha. Shortly thereafter Capt. Marty Snyder and his team from Naval Medical Center Portsmouth constructed the original 44-bed tent hospital near EMF-K’s current location on Camp Arifjan. Navy Medicine
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