The Navy’s newest medical ship will bear the name of the most well-known military medical center in the United States, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced this week.

The Navy’s next hospital ship will be called Balboa, the beloved nickname for Naval Medical Center San Diego, one of the largest military care centers in the world.Secretary of the Navy Carlo… ...

The U.S. Navy’s Next Generation of Hospital Ships Will Be Radically Different The new Bethesda -class expeditionary medical ships are designed to meet the demands of modern warfare.