U.S. Navy sailor from Miami-Dade gets award in Texas

Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Bruce Binns, assigned to Navy Medicine Operational Training Command, was recognized by Rear. Adm. Walter Brafford, commander, Naval Medical Forces Support Command, as the command’s selection for Sailor of the Year at NMFSC headquarters. (U.S. Air Force photo by Taylor Curry, 502 Air Base Wing Public Affairs/Released)

Bruce Binns, a Navy Hospital Corpsman 1st Class from Miami-Dade County’s Kendall area serving in Texas, received a prestigious award.

Rear. Adm. Walter Brafford recently selected the Miami Sunset Senior High School graduate to compete to be the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Sailor of the Year.

Bruce Binns gives a smallpox vaccination to a U.S. Marine aboard the USS Bataan on Nov. 9, 2013, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Bafford handed Binns the award during a ceremony on Friday at the Naval Medical Research Unit in the San Antonio Military Medical Center campus.

Binns has been moving up the ranks for over a decade. During the same ceremony, Brafford also recognized Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Robert Ortiz, of Orlando, for his service.

In 2014, U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Keyea Phillips awarded U.S. Navy Hospitalman Bruce Bines his Fleet Marine Force pin during a ceremony aboard the USS Bataan (LHD 5), at sea.

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