Biloxi native is BUMED SOY

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - The Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) announced Jan. 27 that Biloxi, Miss., native Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Cameron Graham has been named its FY 2016 Sailor of the Year. HM1 Graham, who is assigned as an instructor at the Navy Medicine Training Support Center in San Antonio, was born in Biloxi and grew up in Spring Hill, Fla. He joined the Navy in 2007. Since then, Graham has served in several duty stations with the Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune, N.C,; Hawaii; Washington D.C., as well as three deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Graham will now compete for the Navy-wide Shore-based SOY competition later this year. (Source: Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 01/30/16)