BREMERTON, Wash. - The leading
petty officer (LPO) of the Family Medicine Department at Navy Medicine
Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Bremerton, Hospital Corpsman 1st
Class Jesus Albarran, a native of Houston, was named Senior Sailor of the Quarter (SSOQ) for the
first quarter Jan. 24, 2020.
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| HM1 Jesus Albarran poses for a photo in the NMRTC Bremerton’s Nuclear Medicine department. Albarran was selected as NMRTC Bremerton’s SSOQ for the first quarter of 2020. |
In an all-hands email Capt. Shannon J. Johnson, commanding officer of NMRTC Bremerton, wrote the NMRTC Bremerton Chief's Mess said the competition was particularly fierce this year and full of highly talented and qualified nominees.
“Thank
you to my leadership for giving me the opportunity to lead sailors and my
junior sailors for allowing me to lead them,” said Albarran. “This
accomplishment would not have happened without their support.”
Albarran graduated from Douglas MacArthur Senior High School in 2003. He
completed an Associate’s degree in healthcare management from Coastline
Community College in 2019.
He joined
the Navy in 2003 with the intent on serving and being part of Navy Medicine.
“I
have always wanted to be in the medical field and being able to do it while
serving this country was just an added bonus,” said Albarran.
Navy
Medicine has taken Albarran on two tours in Pensacola, Florida, one tour in
Jacksonville, Florida, Nuclear Medicine School in Portsmouth, Virginia, and now
assigned to NMRTC Bremerton.
Albarran
described his favorite assignment as one where he was able to develop as a
leader.
“The best assignment so far is Naval Hospital Pensacola,” said Albarran. “I was the directorate LPO for Clinical Support Services. That is where I learned to be the leader I am now.”
When
asked to describe the best part about his career in Navy Medicine, Albarran
responded, “Being
able to lead junior sailors and watching them go off to do amazing things with
their careers.”
NMRTC Bremerton supports more than 60,000 military families in West
Puget Sound, shaping military medicine through training, mentoring and research
to ensure a ready medical force and operationally ready force.
He
explained that his assignment contributes towards the Navy surgeon general’s
top priority on operational readiness because, “our job here in Family Medicine
is to ensure our active duty members are healthy to go out and support the
mission.”
When
asked to sum up his experience with Navy Medicine, Albarran replied, “Always
give 100 percent and never take anything for granted.”