SILVER SPRING, Md. - Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Alvin Ciasico, from Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), was awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal on August 11th at an all-hands call and awards ceremony for actions he took in administering emergency medical aid.
On July 12th, while aboard a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Narita, Japan, Ciasico responded to an unconscious passenger at the request of airline crew in search of a doctor or medical first responder. Ciasico, a Navy corpsman with a field medical technician specialty, was the only such responder aboard the aircraft.
“I went on the back of the plane and saw an unconscious patient,” said Ciasico, “She was laying on the ground, and I immediately...
08.12.2025 | SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND, US |
Story by Tommy Lamkin
SILVER SPRING, Md. - Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Alvin Ciasico, from Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), was awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal on August 11th at an all-hands call and awards ceremony for actions he took in administering emergency medical aid.
On July 12th, while aboard a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Narita, Japan, Ciasico responded to an unconscious passenger at the request of airline crew in search of a doctor or medical first responder. Ciasico, a Navy corpsman with a field medical technician specialty, was the only such responder aboard the aircraft.
“I went on the back of the plane and saw an unconscious patient,” said Ciasico, “She was laying on the ground, and I immediately...
08.12.2025 | SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND, US |
Story by Tommy Lamkin
SILVER SPRING, Md. (Aug. 11, 2025) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Alvin Ciasico, with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), receives the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal from Capt. Franca Jones, Commander, NMRC. Ciasico was recognized for responding to an unconscious airline passenger while traveling to the Philippines with his daughter in July, and providing emergency first response care. NMRC, headquarters of Navy Medicine Research & Development, is engaged in a broad spectrum of activity from basic science in the laboratory to field studies in austere and remote areas of the world to investigations in operational environments. In support of Navy, Marine Corps and joint U.S. warfighter health, readiness and lethality, researchers study infectious diseases, biological warfare detection and defense, combat casualty care, environmental health concerns, aerospace and undersea medicine, operational mission support and epidemiology. (U.S. Navy Photo by Sidney Hinds/ released)
