Spotlight Nov 18, 2025 Be a Brain Warrior: Protect. Treat. Optimize. The Department of Defense considers protecting, treating, and optimizing brain health a top priority. Recommended Content Warfighter Brain Health Hub Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence Hearing Center of Excellence Vision Center of Excellence Psychological Health Center of Excellence The National Intrepid Center of Excellence TBI Resources for Military Leadership Warrior Care TBICoE Podcasts MHS Home
Video Aug 18, 2025 The Military Health System Saved My Sight While deployed to Syria as a construction engineer supervisor, U.S. Army Master Sgt. Earlie Brown experienced agonizing eye pain. He tried to “heal myself with eye drops—and I told the doctor, ‘I'm fine. Just let me keep going on with my mission.’” But the military physician assigned to his base knew he wasn’t fine and started an immediate evacuation ... Recommended Content Vision Center of Excellence Centers of Excellence
Article Jul 11, 2025 Warrior Games Athlete Retains Sight Thanks to Military Health System While deployed to Syria as a construction engineer supervisor, U.S. Army Master Sgt. Earlie Brown experienced agonizing eye pain but tried to push through it. The military physician assigned to his base knew he wasn’t fine and took action for an immediate medical evacuation to save Brown’s sight. Recommended Content Vision Center of Excellence
Article Jun 25, 2025 Ask the Doc: Hearing Ringing, Seeing Floaters, What is This? This "Ask the Doc" entry focuses on hearing and vision issues, such as tinnitus or eye floaters. Recommended Content Vision Center of Excellence Hearing Center of Excellence
Publication Jun 24, 2025 VCE Vision Research: A Decade of Insight and Impact .PDF | 485.10 KB This VCE catalog includes more than 20 published co-authored/peer reviewed publications over the past decade. These publications cover a range of vision related topics that are important to military health, readiness, and recovery. This research helps providers, researchers, and policy makers better understand and respond to the eye care needs of ... Recommended Content Vision Center of Excellence Vision Research
Calendar Event Jul 8, 2025 TBICoE Clinical Recommendation Training Series: Assessment of Dizziness and Visual Disturbances Following Concussion This clinical recommendation training provides medical staff with a single, comprehensive reference for the assessment and management of dizziness and visual disturbances following mild TBI. Recommended Content Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence TBICoE Training Events TBI Resources for Medical Providers Vision Center of Excellence Hearing Center of Excellence Warfighter Brain Health Hub
Policy May 15, 2025 Memorandum: Memorandum for OTC Referral Mgmt OTCs .PDF | 141.61 KB This memorandum provides objective criteria that military medical treatment facilities should consider in referral management to assess and treat ocular injuries in the Military Health System. Identification #: N/A Type: Memorandum Recommended Content Ocular Trauma Centers Vision Center of Excellence
Article Apr 18, 2025 Enhancing Vision and Readiness: Warfighter Refractive Eye Surgery Program and Research Centers 25-Year Impact in the National Capital Region For a quarter of a century, the Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center’s Warfighter Refractive Eye Surgery Program and Research Center has stood at the forefront of enhancing vision and optimizing the operational effectiveness of active duty military service members. As one of 26 centers under the Department of Defense, the center has enabled ... Recommended Content Vision Center of Excellence
Article Nov 27, 2024 Veteran Experiencing Vision Loss Finds New Hope Through Blind Rehabilitation Center For help dealing with the emotional challenges of his vision loss, as well as the daily physical challenges he faced, veteran Charles Alewine, was referred to the Major Charles Robert Soltes, Jr., O.D. Department of Veteran’s Affairs Blind Rehabilitation Center in Long Beach, California. The BRC offered him the support system he desperately needed. Recommended Content Vision Center of Excellence Vision Rehabilitation Resources
Article Oct 16, 2024 'If You Can't See, You Can't Fight'—Preventing Eye Injuries is One Key to Readiness Eye protection worn while at work and off-duty guards against life-altering vision injuries. Recommended Content Vision Center of Excellence
Article Aug 14, 2024 Low Vision: What it is and How You Can Function with the Right Treatment Plan Service members are often exposed to a variety of hazards in combat, training, or daily activities, on and off duty, including situations that may affect their vision. Recommended Content Vision Center of Excellence Public Health
Article Jul 11, 2024 Preserving Sight to Fight by Ensuring Effective Military Eye Protection Despite the continued development of munitions that create new types of blast fragments that can injure eyes, evidence indicates decreasing rates of eye injuries in the military. Recommended Content Vision Center of Excellence Public Health
Video Jun 28, 2024 Safe Travel: Orientation and Mobility for People Experiencing Vision Loss (audio description) This video will introduce you to how people with blindness or low vision move through their environment by presenting some orientation and mobility skills, techniques, and tools that may help them travel in ways that are safe and efficient. Recommended Content Vision Center of Excellence Vision Rehabilitation Resources
Video Jun 28, 2024 Safe Travel: Orientation and Mobility for People Experiencing Vision Loss This video will introduce you to how people with blindness or low vision move through their environment by presenting some orientation and mobility skills, techniques, and tools that may help them travel in ways that are safe and efficient. Recommended Content Vision Center of Excellence Vision Rehabilitation Resources
Video Jun 28, 2024 Accessing Information: Assistive Technology for People Experiencing Vision Loss This video will introduce you to how people with blindness or low vision can access information and be productive using assistive technology; and will present different types of software, specialized devices, and widely available options that may help them access information to be productive and efficient, and get back doing the things they want to do. Recommended Content Vision Rehabilitation Resources Vision Center of Excellence