NAVY RESERVE MEDICINE Newsletter Vol 2, #1 January 2021

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by  U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Reserve Policy and Integration (M10)

NAVY RESERVE MEDICINE

M10 STAFF
request for my mother, myself
CAPT Eric Lubeck
WHAT’S INSIDE and my second oldest sister, so
Director
Mobilizations ..................... 4 the three of us were approved to
[phone]
Ed & Training………...…….4 leave for Hong Kong and then to [email protected],
IRT ...................................... 4 return.” CDR Melissa Oldham
RAO Update ..................... 4
Deputy Dir.
Manpower ........................ 5
However, Hong Kong denied [phone]
Finance……………….…….6
[email protected],
their entries so they went to the
HMCS Derek Sheppard
Portuguese colony of Macau and
Senior Enlisted Leader
from there an attempt was made
[phone]

The Great Pursuit to smuggle the family into Hong [email protected]
Kong via a fishing boat. The CDR Randall Hodo
By Medina Ayala-Lo
moment they entered Hong Strategic Plans & Operations

Kong’s territorial waters, Sze, his [phone]
It’s a California-fall day in San
[email protected]
mother and sister were arrested
Diego, the ocean stands strong Mr. Jim Clearwood
by the Royal Hong Kong Coast
and calm as the sunlight dances Finance
Guard and placed in a detention
on its surface. A cool breeze [phone]
blows off the water and with it center. Fortunately, Sze’s [email protected]
grandfather was able to put up a LCDR Ghijuanna Bates
the winds of change as one man
s ta nds ready to receive the fruits financial guarantee for their Education & Training [phone]
[email protected]
release which enabled them to
of his labor. On October 24, 2020,
HM1 Abdessamad El Gbouri
remain in the city and later
Donald Sze, D.M.D, lead dentist, Education and Training
become permanent residents of
acting chief of Dental, and chief [phone]
of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery for Hong Kong. [email protected]
VA Greater Los Angeles LCDR Shannon Gangler
“After we obtained our residency IRT Program
Healthcare System (VAGLAHS),
in Hong Kong, my father told the [phone]
was promoted to the rank of rear
[email protected]
Chinese immigration office ‘I miss
admiral lower half at the U.S. Third
LCDR Heidi Forrest
my family, I miss my wife, I want to
Fleet Headquarters in San Diego, Personnel
go and visit them in Hong Kong’.
Calif. [email protected]
They let him leave, but they held LT Glenda Palomino
The Faith of a Mustard Seed my eldest sister as collateral so Manpower
there was a reason for him to [phone]
It is the early 1960s and three-
return,” Sze said. “I was told that Glenda.m.palominonuflo.mil@mail.
year-old Sze is living in Beijing,
mil
the minute my father left China,
China with his parents and older HMC Nerwin Sevilleja
my oldest sister went to the
sisters. According to Sze, his Manpower
parents wanted to leave China immigration department every [phone]
because of the communist day and cried. I was told she did [email protected]
it for one year and finally just to LT Rodrick Womack
government, so they charted a
get rid of her, they said you can Mobilizations
course for Hong Kong.
[phone]
leave too. So, then she came out

[email protected]
and the family reunited in Hong
“My grandfather had a business HMC Vernaye Taggart
Kong, under the British.”
in Hong Kong, which was a British [phone]
Colony at that time,” Sze said. [email protected]
Then in the late sixties, Communist
“My mother needed medical
leader Mao Zedong launched
care, so she requested to have
the Cultural Revolution in order to
surgeries and get her care in
Hong Kong. China approved the
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reassert his authority over the According to his teachers, Sze
Chinese Communist Party. and his sisters were two years After four years of dental school
ahead in math and science, so Sze completed his Oral and
“There were riots on the street he was excused from those Maxillofacial Surgery certification
and homemade bombs,” Sze classes for the next two years and in Jersey City, N.J. Upon
recalls of that time. His father placed in an English as a Second completion of his specialty
realized that Hong Kong was no Language class instead. training, Sze became the
longer safe and began looking Approximately six months after his attending oral surgeon at Jersey
for a place to relocate his family. arrival, Sze was 50-60% fluent in City Medical Center and he
The first stop was Brazil, but he English. served in this capacity while
determined it wasn’t where he simultaneously joining a private
wanted to settle. Then he looked “Shortly after we got here, my practice.
at the United States. family opened up a family
restaurant in Santa Monica,” Sze Sze and his expectant-wife
“America to most Asians is the said. “All 5 of us worked there. decided to move back to
golden mountain,” Sze said. “It Right after school, I’d ride my California and upon their return
represents the American dream bicycle and go to the restaurant to the West Coast, Sze
where one can better oneself. and help out and work until completed the Craniofacial
The whole family was looking about 9 p.m.” Implant fellowship at the
forward to leaving Hong Kong, University of California Los
but the minor anxiety was we Because he had to go work in the Angeles. He then went into
didn’t know where and we didn’t restaurant, Sze tried to leverage private practice for three and a
know what life would be like in a the time he had during recess half years before deciding that
new country, learning a new and lunch to get all his homework he preferred institutionalized
language.” done. His work ethic paid off and healthcare more.
upon graduating high school, Sze
As luck would have it, Sze’s was accepted into the University “In a private practice, you have
mother already had relatives of Southern California (USC). It to do business marketing and I’m
based in California so after was at USC that he would earn not the entrepreneur business
careful consideration, the his undergraduate degree and type; I don’t like to wine and dine
decision was made that the meet his wife. people,” Sze said. “There’s
family would move to the U.S. nothing wrong with it, it’s just not
for me, so I came to the VA. At
A Dream Realized the VA, you don’t have to do
“My father came to the United marketing you just take care of
States with one hundred dollars in the patient the best you can,
his pocket. He worked 16-hour mentor the residents, share your
days for two years straight, with knowledge and train the next
only one day off,” Sze said. generation.”
“Eventually the restaurant he
worked at sponsored him for Now, after more than two
Donald Sze, D.M.D, lead dentist, acting chief of
permanent residency as a chef Dental, and chief of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery for decades of dedicated military
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
because at that time, there was and federal service and attaining
(VAGLAHS) briefs U.S. Navy Veteran Daniel
a lack of Chinese chefs.” Hernandez prior to his oral surgery in the Dental a rank that many only dream of,
Department of the main hospital at VAGLAHS’ West
Los Angeles campus. Dr. Sze has served in the U.S. it is the people Sze serves who
After two years, Sze’s father got Navy Reserves for more than two decades and was remain at the center of the pride
recently promoted to the rank of rear admiral lower
his Permanent Resident Card, half. (Photo by Medina Ayala-Lo, Public Affairs he takes in his work. His gusto for
Specialist, WLA, VAGLAHS)
commonly known as a Green serving others has not gone

Card, and he used half the unnoticed.
“After I graduated from USC I got
money he had saved from his
accepted to a few dental
time working in the restaurant to “A promotion to flag rank in the
schools and chose the University
bring the rest of his family to the Navy demonstrates the
of Medicine and Dentistry in New
United States. confidence that our national
Jersey. Me and my wife’s
military leaders have in Admiral
honeymoon was driving across
Two weeks after Sze's arrival in the (Dr.) Sze’s potential for innovation
the country,” Sze said jovially.
U.S., he began the eighth grade. and operational leadership. He
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demonstrates that here at GLA you can do for your country.’,” could go to a different part of the
every day,” said Steven E. Sze said. “I think of the country as United States to practice his
Braverman, M.D., director, a bank; every citizen should specialty.
VAGLAHS. “We’re proud to have make a small deposit because if
Admiral Sze as a leader and you just take and take and take, Over the course of his 22 year
expert clinician on our GLA sooner or later the country will go military career Sze has served as
team.” bankrupt. My way of thanking the executive officer for Naval Dental
country is by my service so I Center Southwest; senior dental
thought to myself ‘what can I executive, director for
do’?” administration, and executive
officer for Operational Health
Summiting the Mountain Support Unit Camp Pendleton;
The first thing Sze did when he got executive officer for Operational
the urge to serve was ask his wife Health Support Unit San Diego;
what her thoughts were on him acting deputy commander,
going into the military. She was in Naval Medical Center San Diego;
full support and out of respect, deputy commander for Navy
Donald Sze, D.M.D, lead dentist, acting chief of
Dental, and chief of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery for Sze told his parents next. Personnel, Landstuhl Regional
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Army Medical Center; chief of
(VAGLAHS) performs oral surgery on U.S. Navy
Veteran Daniel Hernandez with Amanda Ankrom, R1, “I went up to dad and asked him staff, Navy Reserve Expeditionary
PGY 1, dental resident, in the Dental Department of
his thoughts and his response kind Medicine, Bureau of Medicine
the main hospital at VAGLAHS’ West Los Angeles
campus. Dr. Sze has served in the U.S. Navy Reserves of surprised me a little bit and Surgery, for Expeditionary
for more than two decades and was recently
promoted to the rank of rear admiral lower half. because he has very traditional Medical Facilities (EMF) Dallas,
(Photo by Medina Ayala-Lo, Public Affairs Specialist, thinking,” Sze said. “The Great Lakes, Camp Pendleton,
WLA, VAGLAHS)
traditional thinking is you don’t and Bethesda; reserve fleet
And after nearly 24 years of get a job with the government surgeon, U.S. Third Fleet; and
service at VAGLAHS, Sze says he’s because in Chinese history, chief staff officer for Defense
never been more proud to work there’s a lot of corruption with the Support of Civil Authorities.
at the VA as he is during the government officials and the
novel coronavirus (COVID-19) military. But when I told my dad His command tours include Naval
pandemic. he looked at me and said ‘you Dental Center Camp Pendleton;
“Whatever I have accomplished, should, you’re an American 4th Dental Company, 4th Dental
it is because of my team. I’ve got now’.” Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics
great people to work with who First, Sze looked into the Sheriff’s Group; Operational Health
are supportive and not just within Reserve, then the Police Reserve, Support Unit San Diego; and
my department. Within the dental then the U.S. Air Force Reserve Navy Expeditionary Medical Unit
department, 99% of the people before deciding to join the Navy 15, Landstuhl, Germany.
just rogered up and put their Reserve. He was commissioned
personal fears aside to take care as a lieutenant commander. “In the Navy, I’m most proud of
of our patients,” Sze said. “It’s just the ability to take care of my
so good to work with this team “Joining the Navy was a little bit Sailors and Marines, lead, and
especially during the pandemic like a boy scout adventure. I’m being given the chance to lead,”
and I’m totally supported by the going into this unknown, I’m Sze said. “I always love new
leadership, my people and my going to challenge myself, see if I challenges so that’s what drives
colleagues from other can survive or adapt and see me partially and the other part is
departments.” what comes of it,” Sze said. “The giving back. I also have the
It was about three years into Sze’s minute I joined the military I liked mentality of ‘somebody has to do
tenure at VAGLAHS when he it because things have structure. it, why not me?’ Unless I’m totally
started thinking to himself what Everything has rules, regulations unqualified, but I’ll never know if I
else he could do to thank the and policy and that just fits me don’t try.”
country for the American Dream. perfectly.”
Sze was looking forward to the
“It was President Kennedy who For Sze, the transition to military 2020 Rim of the Pacific Exercise
once said ‘ask not what your life was not a difficult one and he (RIMPAC) as his last hurrah before
country can do for you but what looked forward to the two weeks his retirement, which was set to
a year of active duty so that he take place later this year. Then in
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late July, Sze was confirmed by Education & who are full speed ahead with
the senate for promotion to rear plans for Kodiak Arctic Care
admiral lower half. Following his Training which will take place this
promotion, Sze was assigned as upcoming May. Mid Planning
LCDR Bates/HM1 El Gbouri
the deputy commander, Naval Meetings (MPM) are expected to

Medical Force Support continue in-person at Grissom Air
FLTMPS Documentation
Command (Reserve); deputy Reserve Base in Indiana this
Happy New Year Shipmates!
medical officer of the Marine winter.
Completed training courses to
Corps; chief, Navy Reserve
include General Military Trainings,
Dental Corps. The FY21 IRT MPMs are as follows:
Life Support Trainings (e.g. Basic

Life Support-BLS, Advanced  NMRTC San Diego-Kodiak
“My proudest accomplishment in
Trauma Life Support-ATLS), and Arctic Care MPM 8-12 Feb
the military was leading my Navy
Professional Development  NMRTC Jacksonville-
Reserve Medicine team when I
Courses (e.g. MedXellence, Operation Healthy Delta MPM
was stationed in Landstuhl,
AMDEC) must be documented in 22-26 Feb
Germany providing support to
Fleet Training Management  EMF Great Lakes- East Central
the Landstuhl Regional Medical
Planning System (FLTMPS). If you Georgia MPM 15-19 Mar
Center and taking care of the
are in need of proof of  NMRTC Portsmouth-
wounded warriors. Serving in the
completed training, check your Operation Gateway MPM 22-
military makes me better able to
FLTMPS training jacket. 26 Mar
understand my Veteran patients
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because we can speak a
AMDEC
common language,” Sze said. “I
Advanced Medical Department From the RAOs…
take care of service members on
Enlisted Course (AMDEC),
active duty and then when I CAPT Marley/CAPT Blaustein
formerly EMDEC, is open to
come to the VA I take care of CAPT Ormsbee/CAPT Morgan
Reserve Component Enlisted
them after they’re discharged
personnel (E7-E9). Course
from active duty so from A to Z, I What is the difference between
information, including
get to take care of the AQDs, NOBCs and SSPs?
prerequisites and schedule, can
Veterans.” Additional Qualification
be found at the following link:
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. https://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmpdc/courses/Pag Designations (AQD) identify
https://www.losangeles.va.gov/LOSANGELES/features es/Executive%20Medical%20Department%20Enlisted. additional qualifications and skills
/The_Great_Pursuit.asp, December 8, 2020. aspx. ADT-CME funding is available that enhance your skill set or
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specialty. Billet AQDs can be part
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of a billet requirement. When
Mobilizations applied to a billet on a
Innovative
LT Womack manpower authorization, the
AQD code generally identifies a
Readiness Training
There are URGENT Mobilization requirement for skills and
Opportunities to GTMO in April for (IRT) Program knowledge needed to perform
the following specialties: the duties and/or functions of a
LCDR Gangler
 Lab Tech billet additional to those

 Medical Logistics identified by the billet designator,
The IRT Program is preparing for
Administration (1802) grade, NOBC, or subspecialty.
an increase in operational tempo
 Psych Tech The AQD generally indicates a
and requirements starting this
 Physical Therapy Tech requirement for an officer who
month. Lead planners and key
 Physical Therapist has attained special
members from the Navy Reserve
 ICU Nurses qualifications through training
Medicine units participating in the
and/or experience. When
FY21 IRT exercises are fully
For Enlisted personnel, please entered in an officer's record, the
engaged in weekly and bi-weekly
ensure that your EAOS is May AQD code identifies the
telecons hosted by the lead
2022 or later. attainment of skills and
services and community partners.
knowledge, as recognized by
Planning meetings resume next
competent authority, in addition
month, starting with the planning
to those identified by the officer
team from NMRTC San Diego
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designator, grade, NOBC, or the SSP that the Navy assigned MANPOWER

subspecialty. you, you are not meeting your
LT Palomino/HMC Sevilleja
mission requirement or

Navy Officer Billet Classification professional expertise and you
FY21 APPLY Update
(NOBC) describes general could be administratively
APPLY Board Selectees have
occupational duties. You can separated. You might be eligible
been notified via RFMT of their
receive a NOBC by being placed to change your SSP, however, it is
selection results, starting the
in a billet which has that billet not guaranteed. Please contact
seven day Declination
code yet does not require the your Senior Executive, Specialty
phase. Until the end of the
specialty. NOBCs are mostly used Leader or Reserve Affairs Officer if
Declination phase on 14 January
by Active Duty for identifying you have questions.
2021, only the selectees were
billet requirements rather than the
Subspecialty (SSP), which are FY22 Promotion In-Zone List: able to see their personal
results. The full FY21 APPLY Board
used in the Reserve. Not all SSPs As of 15 January 2021, the FY22
Results were publicly released on
have a matching NOBC. There Zone List has not been posted.
the RFMT website home page on
are also NOBCs that identify Please visit the PERS Reserve
14 January 2021, following the
Active Duty organizational Officer Promotion Selection
conclusion of Declination phase.
positions. Boards website:
https://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-
npc/boards/reserveofficer/Pages/default.aspx APPLY Board awarded
SSP codes identify education,
Scroll to the bottom and under
assignments are assumed to be
training or experience in various
Helpful Information will be a link
accepted by selected officers.
fields and disciplines. SSPs are
to the NAVADMIN announcing
Therefore, the requirement to
used when you search for billets
the FY22 In-Zone eligible list for
"accept" assignments following
in JO Apply and Apply for which
consideration for promotion.
the publishing of board results is
you are qualified and are used
no longer required. Officers
for determining manning levels. Updated Board Schedule
electing to decline awarded
SSPs are earned and must be The FY22 Board schedule has
billets must do so, through the
approved through credentialing been updated and can be
RFMT website, within 7 days
boards and accepted found at : https://www.public.navy.mil/bupers- following the posting of the
accredited programs. Medical npc/boards/selectionboardsupport/Pages/FY22-
officers are commissioned into Board-Schedule.aspx results, specifically, NLT 1500 EST
Reserve O6 Staff: 08APR21 on 14 January 2021. Explanations
the Navy with their primary SSP.
(nomination forms due 28JAN21) for declined billets are required; a
Officers can apply for additional
Reserve O5 Staff: 08APR21 text field is provided.
SSPs based on their specific corps
(nomination forms due 28JAN21)
guidelines for the SSP. Contact
Reserve O4 Staff: 14APR21 Senior officers (O5/O6), who
the specialty leader of the
(nomination forms due 03FEB21) decline a billet specifically
desired SSP for more information.
APPLY: 18OCT21 (nomination requested on the officer's

forms due date is TBD) dreamsheet are ineligible for
More SSP information: SSPs are
post-board assignments (PBA) or
used to determine manning, fit-
The board application, NAVPERS Overgrade Waiver (OGW) and
to-fill and mobilization
1400/5, can be found on the will be transferred to a non-pay
requirements, NOT NOBCs. You
BUPERS/NPC website at: status per RESPERSMAN 1300-010.
can have multiple SSPs. If you
http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers- Officers who decline a
change your civilian job into a npc/reference/forms/
NAVPERS/Documents/NAVPERS_1400-5_Rev10-19.pdf “suggested” are eligible for post-
different specialty, this DOES NOT
File naming format should be as board assignments (PBA or
mean you are automatically
follows: NAVPERS_1400- OGW).
given the SSP. It is based on the
5]_[Designator]_[RANK]_[Last
needs of the Navy. If that
Name]_[Board]_[Position: Senior Officers who have a PRD
specialty is overmanned or we do
Pres/Mbr/Rec.pdf of 28 February 2021 and did not
not have that specialty in the
participate in the APPLY Board
Reserve, you will not be awarded
**Applications should be emailed will receive VTU orders effective
the SSP. Except for MSC, most
to LCDR Heidi Forrest at 01 March 2021.
SSPs require credentialing or
usn.ncr.bumedfchva.mbx.manpower-

privileging in that specialty to [email protected] .
maintain the SSP. If you do not Junior Officers (JO) declining a
billet specifically requested on
maintain credentials/privileging in
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the officer's dreamsheet will not To download the free antivirus the availability of funds. This can
return to their previous JO software, go to change in a very short period of
assignment and will be https://storefront.disa.mil/kinetic/disa/service- time, depending on requirements
transferred to a non-pay status catalog#/forms/antivirus-home-use and get and needs of the Navy. If funds
the version that matches your
IAW COMNAVRESFORNOTE are not available when orders
computer operating system.
5400. JOs declining a billet not reach BUMED for fund approval,
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specifically requested on the they are likely to be disapproved.

officer's dreamsheet (a If you had gotten the orders in
"suggested" billet) will remain in BUMED (M10) & earlier, funds may have been
their current JO assignment. JOs available.
Regional Functional
not selected for an APPLY billet
will remain in their current Area Emails - Once my orders request is
JOAPPLY billet if there is time complete and routed for

remaining until their PRD. JOs approval in NROWS, my unit will
BUMED (M10) Manpower Reserve:
who participated in APPLY, did make sure my request reaches
usn.ncr.bumedfchva.mbx.manpower-
not get a billet, and do not have [email protected] Fund Approval prior to the start
PRD time remaining will need to BUMED (M10) Education Training: date. My unit wants me to
participate in the next JOAPPLY usn.ncr.bumedfchva.mbx.bumed---m10-education- support this, so they will track my
[email protected]
cycle. NMFL OSO: request in NROWS and resolve
usn.hampton-roads.navmedeastporsva.list.nme- any problems or contact me if
[email protected]
Post Board Assignment eligible they need anything.” – The
NMFP OSO:
Officers are highly encouraged to SELRES is primarily responsible for
[email protected]
submit for a vacant APPLY billet NMFSC OSO: [email protected] getting an orders request routed
prior to 31 March 2021. An NMRTC BETHESDA OSO: dha.bethesda.j- for approval in NROWS. As soon
updated list of Vacant APPLY [email protected] as orders receive Requirement
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billets will be posted on the RFMT Owner approval, the orders

Home page every Friday should be completed and
beginning 15 January 2021. FINANCE tracked in NROWS through the
approval process. If the request
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has been delayed, the member

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NROWS Myths Lead to SELRES
and/or NOSC to quickly resolve
Trouble
IT Corner any problems.
- I’m going to wait on the

HM1 El Gbouri completion and submission of my
- I have final approved orders in
orders request, because I’ve
NROWS, but the unit has
The DoD Antivirus Software already been assigned a
cancelled the training event. I
License Agreement from McAfee requirement in NROWS, so I
don’t have to do anything, they
allows current DoD employees shouldn’t have to worry. - This
will be deleted in NROWS. - If a
and authorized government couldn’t be further from the truth!
member has fund approved
contractors to utilize the antivirus All orders must route through the
orders in NROWS for a
software for personal device entire approval chain. By
requirement that has been
protection. Home use of the delaying the routing of your
cancelled, he needs to go into
antivirus products will not only orders, you potentially prevent an
NROWS and route a Cancellation
protect personal computers, but on-time start that may impact the
request for approval by BUMED.
will also potentially lessen the mission.
Until the cancellation is
likelihood of malicious
approved, these funds cannot be
threats being introduced to the - If I’m assigned an NROWS
used to support other
workplace and compromising requirement, it’s a guarantee
requirements. If the member’s
DoD networks. DISA Home Use is that my orders request will be
orders request is routing, but not
now being offered to approved. - Assignment to an
yet approved in NROWS, he
government employees and NROWS requirement by your unit
needs to go into NROWS and
defense contractors with an means that you’ve been
delete the request.
approved .mil email address. included in the planning process
by the Requirement Owner. Fund
approval, however, is based on
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