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The most recent appropriations for the Department of War expired at 11:59 p.m. EST on September 30, 2025. Military personnel will continue in a normal duty status without pay until such time as a continuing resolution or appropriations are passed by Congress and signed into law. Civilian personnel not engaged in excepted activities will be placed in a non-work, non-pay status.

Great health care is more than just appointments and treatments. With My Military Health, you’ll enjoy a simpler health care experience – with more opportunities for virtual care. Powered by advanced digital tools, My Military Health helps you engage in your health when, where, and how you need to. Learn more about DHA's New Model of Care!

My Military Health: Improving the Patient Experience

Great health care is more than just appointments and treatments. With My Military Health, you’ll enjoy a simpler health care experience – with more opportunities for virtual care. Powered by advanced digital tools, My Military Health helps you engage in your health when, where, and how you need to. Learn more about DHA's New Model of Care!

Visit the TRICARE website to learn about the regional contractor contract changes in 2025

Understanding the New TRICARE Contract Region Changes

Visit the TRICARE website to learn about the regional contractor contract changes in 2025

The Defense Health Agency’s Virtual Education Center is an online educational platform with more than 50,000 resources covering 60 medical topics. The Virtual Education Center puts the power in your hands to research health topics before you talk to your provider.

Visit our new Virtual Education Center!

The Defense Health Agency’s Virtual Education Center is an online educational platform with more than 50,000 resources covering 60 medical topics. The Virtual Education Center puts the power in your hands to research health topics before you talk to your provider.

TRICARE Open Season 2023 has ended. If you didn’t enroll or make a change to your TRICARE health plan during open season, you must wait until the next open season unless you have a TRICARE Qualifying Life Event (QLE). TRICARE Open Season happens each fall. To learn more, visit: https://tricare.mil/lifeevents.

How to Make Enrollment Changes Outside of TRICARE Open Season

TRICARE Open Season 2023 has ended. If you didn’t enroll or make a change to your TRICARE health plan during open season, you must wait until the next open season unless you have a TRICARE Qualifying Life Event (QLE). TRICARE Open Season happens each fall. To learn more, visit: https://tricare.mil/lifeevents.

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NHCP News and Updates

Outgoing Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Pendleton Commander Capt. Jenny Burkett (left) salutes incoming NMRTC Camp Pendleton Commander Capt. Virginia Damin (right) during the change of command ceremony held July 11, 2025, in the Medal Honor Promenade of Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton. Naval Medical Forces Pacific Commander Rear Adm. Guido Valdes presided over the event and served as the reviewing officer ensuring the formal transfer of authority and responsibility for the command. Burkett will transfer to the Office of the Deputy Navy Surgeon General in Falls Church, Va., and Damin comes to NMRTC Camp Pendleton from her previous position as the executive officer of NMRTC Guam and deputy director of Naval Hospital Guam. For 250 years, Navy Medicine – represented by more than 44,000 highly-trained military and civilian healthcare professionals – has delivered quality healthcare and enduring expeditionary medical support to the warfighter on, below, and above the sea, and ashore.

NMRTC Camp Pendleton Conducts Change of Command

Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Pendleton changed command on July 11, 2025, during a ceremony held in the Medal of Honor Promenade of Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

Presenters from both Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Pendleton, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., and Naval Health Research Center, Naval Base Point Loma, San Diego, Calif., pose for a group photograph at the completion of the inaugural NMRTC Camp Pendleton Academic Research Symposium held March 13, 2025, aboard Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton. For 250 years, Navy Medicine – represented by more than 44,000 highly-trained military and civilian healthcare professionals – has delivered quality healthcare and enduring expeditionary medical support to the warfighter on, below, and above the sea, and ashore.

NMRTC Camp Pendleton holds inaugural Academic Research Symposium

Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Pendleton held an Academic Research Symposium aboard Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton on March 13, 2025.

The casualty receiving team of Expeditionary Medical Facility (EMF) 150-Alpha unloads a simulated patient from an ambulance in front of the facility during an EMF training and Operational Readiness Evaluation (ORE) at the Naval Expeditionary Medicine Warfighter Development Center (NEMWDC), Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 15-28. An EMF is a role 3 platform, designed to provide in-theater hospitalization with a hold capacity of up to 150 beds.

EMF 150-Alpha refines operational readiness at NEMWDC

Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Alpha (EMF 150 Alpha) recently got a dose of realism, testing its ability to provide forward-deployed health service support to operational units across a full range of military operations in a series of real-world scenarios.

Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton graduated six nurses from the Nurse Residency Program during a graduation ceremony held Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in the hospital galley meeting room aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. “Our Nurse Residency Program is 12 weeks long with rotations and cross-training to several departments across the hospital including laboratory, post-anesthesia care unit, ambulatory procedure unit, intensive care unit; and the emergency department,” said Lt. Cmdr. Samantha Knight, a clinical nurse specialist in the hospital’s intensive care unit. Shown are Lt. Kendra Arias, former program co-chair; Lt. Cmdr. Samantha Knight, program co-chair; Navy Capt. Sara Naczas, director of nursing services; Ensign Izabela Marasco, graduate; Ensign Jimmy Manikhong, graduate; Ensign Madison Harrison, graduate; Ensign Raquel Kauthen, graduate; Ensign Luciana Poka, graduate; Lt. jg. Princess Ekudi, graduate; Navy Capt. Jenny Burkett, NHCP director, and Lt. Mary Hinson, program co-chair. For 250 years, Navy Medicine – represented by more than 44,000 highly-trained military and civilian healthcare professionals – has delivered quality healthcare and enduring expeditionary medical support to the warfighter on, below, and above the sea, and ashore.

NHCP graduates six nurses from Nurse Residency Program

Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton graduated six nurses from the Nurse Residency Program during a graduation ceremony held Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in the hospital galley meeting room aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

TRICARE News and Updates

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Get ready for TRICARE Open Season 2025: What you need to know

If you’re a TRICARE beneficiary, mark your calendar: TRICARE Open Season begins Monday, Nov. 10, and runs through Tuesday, Dec. 9. This is your chance to enroll in or make changes to your TRICARE plan for 2026. Changes you make during this time will take effect on Jan. 1, 2026.

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Share your experiences with COPD care and treatment at Oct. 17 Clinical Practice Guideline patient focus group

Have you been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD? Your feedback could play a key role in developing and updating clinical practice guidelines across the military and veteran health care systems.

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National Guard or Reserve? Learn What To Do if You Need Line of Duty Care

Are you a member of the National Guard or Reserve? If so, it’s important to know how TRICARE covers you if you become sick or are injured while activated for 30 days or less. This article explores how, where, and under what circumstances National Guard and Reserve members can get line of duty care.

Learn How TRICARE Can Help You Manage Chronic Health Conditions

Living with a chronic health condition can feel hard. But you don’t have to do it alone. TRICARE offers programs and coverage to help you live better with chronic conditions like asthma, diabetes, heart disease, anxiety, and depression.

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DOD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office

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