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METC Program Creates Path to College Degrees
June 27, 2023 — The Medical Education and Training Campus Degree Bridge Program provides active duty, National Guard, and Reserve service members and veterans a means to earn a college degree in a variety of allied health and related career fields more quickly by receiving credit for their military service and training...

ITMD Completes Voice Solution Project
March 25, 2023 — The Medical Education and Training Campus Information Technology and Multimedia Division recently completed a project that provides METC users with robust cellular service from AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile (which also includes Sprint and Google Fi) in medical instructional facilities across the campus, ensuring better cellular connectivity for safety and productivity...

METC hosts large-scale tabletop exercise for notional mobilization
January 31, 2023 — The Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston conducted a large-scale, mobilization tabletop exercise, or MOBTTX, Jan. 17 to prepare for a potential surge in student throughput for three of its largest training programs...

WWE Superstars take time for service members, kids at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston
January 27, 2023 — Eleven WWE Superstars visited Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Jan. 26 for a series of tours and interactive events in partnership with the USO and the JBSA-Fort Sam Houston Boys and Girls Club of America...

Aiming to Heal
November 10, 2022 — In honor of Radiologic Technology Week, the multi-service Radiologic Technologist program at the Medical Education and Training Campus celebrated with a barbeque lunch for its students, instructors, and staff, followed by the reading of a proclamation signed by San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg Nov. 10...

METC Instructor inducted into college Athletic Hall of Fame
November 4, 2022 — Air Force Staff Sgt. Moneque English was recognized for her contributions to the Columbus State University (CSU) track and field and cross-country teams by being inducted into the school's athletic hall of fame...

BJACH RAD Tech, METC Alum, earns nationally recognized certification
November 4, 2022 — Sgt. Darrell Antonetty-Torres, radiology specialist at Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital passed the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists examination and earned his radiologic technician credentials Oct. 7 in Shreveport, Louisiana...

METC Student Awarded Navy and Marine Corps Medal
October 20, 2022 — JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (Oct. 20, 2022) – Hospital Corpsman William T. Ericson was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal in recognition for acts of non-combat heroism during a ceremony recently at the Navy Medicine Training Support Center (NMTSC).While off-duty hiking at the Cabrillo National Monument on May 2, 2021,...

METC Degree Bridge Program helps METC alum change career path
September 22, 2022 — Enlisted medical professionals, and those who recently left military service, can earn certificates, diplomas, associate, bachelor’s or master’s degrees through METC’s Degree Bridge Program. METC has partnerships with nearly 90 civilian colleges and universities spanning 29 states from which more than 1,900 degree-bridge pathways are available...

Olympian trades spikes for boots, enlists as an Army medic
September 1, 2022 — Noah Akwu had three lifetime dreams growing up in Nigeria. He wanted to run in the Olympics, to move to America and to serve in the military as a medic, just as his father and grandfather had...