Родом из Леннокса: госпитальный корпсмен Барри Джоинер служит в ВМС США на Тихоокеанском Северо-Западе

Lenox native serves with Navy Medicine in Pacific Northwest Published 12:16 pm Friday, August 14, 2026 BREMERTON, Wash. – Hospitalman Barry Joiner, a native of Lenox, Georgia, serves with Navy Medicine assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Bremerton, Washington. Joiner graduated from Cook County High School in 2024. He said the skills and values needed to succeed in the Navy are similar to those found in Lenox. “Growing up in my small town, I went to church every Sunday,” Joiner said. “I learned to turn to God whenever I was confused or needed guidance, and that is still something I try to do to this day” Joiner joined the Navy two years ago. Today, Joiner serves as a hospital corpsman and is a surgical technologist. “I want to make my family proud and continue our family history of serving in the military,” Joiner said. “I have a lot of family and people I consider family in the military. My dad, stepmom, and cousins served in the Army, and my grandfather and great-grandfather served in the Navy. Also, a man I would consider a grandparent served in the Marines, so I want to be like all of them and serve my country.” NMRTC Bremerton supports overall Navy and Marine Corps operational readiness by ensuring Navy medical personnel are trained, equipped and certified to deploy worldwide. Consisting primarily of Navy Medicine personnel assigned to work at Naval Hospital Bremerton, which is managed by the Defense Health Agency, in Kitsap County, Washington, the command supports the third-largest fleet concentration in the U.S. Navy. In addition to the main hospital, the command supports Branch Health Clinics at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor and Naval Station Everett. Its combined military and civilian staff of approximately 597 personnel are committed to ensuring a ready medical force, warfighter survivability, medical readiness, and high-quality patient care. Navy Medicine – represented by more than 44,000 highly-trained military and civilian health care professionals – provides enduring expeditionary medical support to the warfighter on, below, and above the sea, and ashore. Joiner has had many opportunities to achieve accomplishments during military service. “My proudest accomplishment is becoming a certified surgical technologist,” Joiner said. “Most people will spend years in school and clinicals before they can get certified, but I was able to do it at 19 without accumulating any student debt. All thanks to the Navy.” Joiner serves a Navy that operates far forward, around the world and around the clock, promoting the nation’s prosperity and security. “Serving in the Navy puts me in the position to do good in the world and spread the light of Jesus,” Joiner said. Joiner is grateful to others for helping make a Navy career possible. “I would like to thank my parents for raising me and helping me get to this point in my life,” Joiner said. “I would also like to thank all the instructors through Hospital Corpsman and surgical technologist school, and most of all, I would like to thank the second class hospital corpsmen I scrub in with every day. They have poured their knowledge into me, and without them I would not be where I am today.”