USMC Billets
Navy dentist, 67, becomes oldest on record to earn Fleet Marine Force pin
BLUF – The article profiles Lt. Cmdr. David Westenberg, a Navy dentist who, after entering the Navy at age 64 following a 38-year civilian dental career, became the oldest recorded recipient of the Fleet Marine Force qualification pin at age 67. For Navy Medicine, the story highlights the value of operational integration and Marine Corps understanding among healthcare officers, demonstrating how clinical leaders can strengthen their effectiveness and credibility with supported forces by pursuing warfighting and operational qualifications beyond their primary medical specialty.
Operational Medical Officer (OMO) Detailing Process
Attached is the OMO detailing process memorandum. If you are a board-eligible/board-certified physician and interested in serving as an OMO, please contact the respective operational specialty leader while making your clinical specialty leader aware.
REMINDER: Operational Medical Officer (OMO) Application Deadline 15 October
Please send your applications to be considered for the community as outlined as below:
Surface
Submit via the Surface Force Medical webpage:
https://esportal.med.navy.mil/bumed/rh/m3/m35/m355/Pages/SFMOApplication.aspx
If you send an email to the SFMO email (usn.ncr.bumedfchva.mbx.surface-force-med@health.mil), you will get an automatic reply advising you to use the SFMO webpage
Specialty Leader: cormac.j.oconnor.mil@health.mil
FMF
Specialty Leader: ellema.schollnberger@usmc.mil
Aerospace
UPDATE! The flight surgery application email box is back in service. Please send applications to USN NAS Pensacola NAVMED OTC NAMI FL List NAMI-FSAppCoord:
usn.pensacola.navmedotcnamifl.list.nami-fsappcoord@health.mil
Specialty Leader: matthew.doubrava@cvn75.navy.mil
UMO
usn.new-london.navmedotcnumict.mbx.numi-umoc@health.mil
Specialty Leader: richard.h.schreckengaust.mil@health.mil
Updated Operational Medical Officer Application Links
BLUF: The old OMO application instruction still has incorrect links to submit applications.
OMO Application Submissions: The BUMEDINST 1520.42B Application Guidance for Operational medical Officer Professional Training published in 2021 does not include changes to certain emails and webpages. Please see below for updates to Surface and FMF. You can also find GME and GMO/OMO documents/contacts on our Sharepoint under Useful Links.
https://esportal.med.navy.mil/bumed/m00/m00c/M00C1/Pages/Homepage.aspx
Surface: Submit via the Surface Force Medical webpage:
https://esportal.med.navy.mil/bumed/rh/m3/m35/m355/Pages/SFMOApplication.aspx
If you send an email to the SFMO email (usn.ncr.bumedfchva.mbx.surface-force-med@health.mil), you will get an automatic reply advising you to use the SFMO webpage.
Operational Medical Officer (OMO) Opportunities
PERS 4415 has provided the attached OMO opportunities list:
The list is current but will fluctuate throughout the detailing cycle. Residency-trained MC officers without previous operational experience are encouraged to apply as outlined in the attached memo and per BUMEDINST 1520.42B.
OMO applications are due to operational specialty leaders NLT 15 October 2022.
OMO detailing involves extensive cross-detailing at PERS. As such, communication is key. Officers must communicate their intentions to their detailer and community specialty leader(s).
Questions about OMO applications can be directed to the operational community specialty leader of the community to which you are applying:
· Aerospace Medicine and Flight Surgery – CAPT Robert J. Krause
· Fleet Marine Forces – CDR Debra D. Buckland-Coffee
· Surface Medicine – CAPT Mark J. Lenart
· Undersea and Dive Medicine – CAPT James J. Mucciarone
Additional information on OMO applications can be found here: https://esportal.med.navy.mil/bumed/m00/m00c/M00C1/SitePages/Home.aspx
Here’s a graphic for an info session happening on 13 SEP:
Throwback Thursday Classic Guest Post – Now is the Time to Develop Future FMF Leaders
Here is an article from Leatherneck Magazine by a former MEF Surgeon and the current Brigade Commander at USUHS, Dr. Sean Hussey:
38th Commandant of the Marine Corps Planning Guidance
Anyone with anything to do with the United States Marine Corps should read the new Commandant’s planning guidance:
Sacred Cows Die As Marine Commandant Changes Course On Amphibs
Here’s a link to this thought provoking article:
Sacred Cows Die As Marine Commandant Changes Course On Amphibs