181101-N-RZ218-0007 OKINAWA (Nov 1, 2018) Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general and chief of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, is welcomed to Okinawa by Ginowan Mayor Masanori Matugawa, Nov. 1, 2018, during a site visit to Naval Hospital Okinawa. During the meeting Matugawa and Faison spoke of the positive relationship between Navy Medicine and the Okinawan citizens. Navy Medicine is a global health care network of 63,000 personnel that provides health care support to the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps and their families and veterans, in high operational tempo environments, at expeditionary medical facilities, medical treatment facilities, hospitals, clinics, hospital ships and research units around the world. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class John Paul Kotara II/Released)