Preventive Medicine pinning...Hospital Corpsman 1st

Preventive Medicine pinning...Hospital Corpsman 1st Class James Gibbons, preventive medicine technician assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command receives his petty officer first class crow(s) from Chief Hospital Corpsman Dawn Dillow during the command advancement ceremony July 28, 2020. Gibbons was one of 14 Sailors authorized at the command to assume the title and wear the uniform of the next highest petty officer pay grade, effective immediately. The appointments of three petty officer first class, three petty officer second class and eight petty officer third class continued a long Navy tradition of passing along increased - and hard earned - authority that also calls for the need to accept greater responsibility by all those selected in the advancement process (Official Navy photo by Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton public affairs officer).