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specializes in the acquisition of health care services, supplies and equipment, and that the majority of its contracts are for the personal services of direct-care providers. The Logistics Command also provides comprehensive medical support for the Navy’s fleet and to Fleet Marine Forces engaged in combat opera- tions, such as in Afghanistan. Finally, the Medical Logistics Command also provides legal services and support across Navy Medicine in the areas of federal acquisitions, business and commercial law, fiscal and appropriations law, healthcare law, labor law and ethics, and the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts.


Valentin, promoted to rear admiral in 2009, became a history-maker several times over as she ascended to the boss’ seat at the Navy’s Medicine Support Command...also...an exem- plar of a stunning turnaround in the treatment of Asia-Pacific Americans—especially of Filipi- no-Americans—in the U.S. military.


recognition of potential health hazards, be they biological, chemi- cal, or physical, and communication to commands and facilities worldwide about their threats.


Navy Drug Screen- ing Labs under Rear Admiral Valentin’s command complete


Mouthful? Did You Say a Mouthful? That mouthful keeps getting bigger, especially when you re- alize that one part of this command, the Ophthalmic Support and Training Activity in Yorktown, makes some 30,000 pairs of prescription eyewear for military personnel of all services, in addition to training sailors to be opticians in its six-month- long Class “C” school, a follow-on training program after sailors have completed their Class “A” school military oc- cupational training.


Still another command responsibility falls under the Navy Medicine, Manpower, Personnel and Training Command, based at Bethesda, Maryland. That command has oversight of enlisted medical training, operational medical training, and all Navy Medicine Graduate Programs. An Expeditionary Medicine Training Institute at Camp Pendleton, California, trains active-duty and Naval Reserve medical personnel and Construction Battalion (SEABEES) personnel to prepare them for service in mobile expeditionary medical facilities and “Fleet Hospitals” deployed to support combat and humani- tarian operations around the world.


Rear Admiral Valentin also manages other training facilities that specialize in aerospace medicine, undersea medicine, radiation health, surface warfare medicine, and trauma train- ing. She also has oversight of a new Navy Medicine Training Center in San Antonio, Texas, scheduled for a phased-in opening this year and in 2011. This tri-service facility is to be the largest consolidation of enlisted service training in the history of the Department of Defense, moving naval medical training commands from San Diego, California, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Great Lakes, Illinois.


The Navy’s Own CDC As if that was not enough, there’s more: Rear Admiral Valentin also is in charge of the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center, in Portsmouth, Virginia. It’s the Navy’s equivalent to the civilian Centers for Disease Control and it’s responsible for the Navy’s Health Risk Assessment, the


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some 2.3 million screening tests each year for Navy and Marine Corps personnel as part of the Defense Department’s “Zero Tolerance” of drug abuse, and the Navy’s Dosimetry Center provides critical support for the continued safe opera- tion of the Nuclear Navy.


In the civilian world, Rear Admiral Valentin would be called a top executive, a chief operating officer whose only immedi- ate supervisor is the Surgeon General of the Navy.


Challenges? She Meets ‘Em All Comments from Admiral Gary Roughead, chief of Naval Op- erations, supporting Rear Admiral Valentin’s nomination for a 2010 National Woman of Color Technology Award stress that he has “witnessed firsthand her passion, dedication, and commitment to the health, welfare and morale of our Sailors and Marines around the world. As the first female director of the Navy Medical Service Corps, and the first female Medi- cal Service Corps officer to obtain the rank of Rear Admiral, Eleanor clearly stands out as a trendsetter who meets chal- lenges head-on. . . she masterfully delivers critical leader- ship and skillful, sound guidance in the day-to-day strategic operations of her command. She consistently leads from the front and champions outstanding care for our wounded warriors, ensuring family and patient-centered care continues in conjunction with the consistent delivery of world-class healthcare.”


Amen to that.


This hard hat, presented to RDML Valentin by the National Capital Area Medical Service Corps Association Health Facility Planning and Project Officers, reflects the spirit of camaraderie that she fosters in medical personnel of all backgrounds and experiences.


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