2016-01-19

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (NNS) -- The U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) announced Navy Medicine's Sailor of the Year (SOY) at Defense Health Headquarters, Jan. 15. BUMED's panel of senior enlisted leaders selected Hospital Corpsman 1st Class (IDW) Jessica L. Wentlent, from Naval Medical Center San Diego as Navy Medicine's 2015 SOY. Vice Adm. C. Forrest Faison III, Navy surgeon general and chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, delivered the opening remarks and Force Master Chief Terry J. Prince, director of the Hospital Corps, announced Wentlent as this year's selectee. "Thank you, not only for the difference that you've made, but the differences you will make in the future as you progress in your careers," said Faison. "I have no worries about where Navy Medicine is going because it's in great hands. You Sailors are the best of the best." A native of Buffalo, New ...

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