COMMANDING OFFICER
Captain Aaron D. Werbel, Ph.D.
Medical Service Corps,
United States Navy
Captain Aaron Werbel assumed the duties of commanding officer, Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Lemoore and director, Naval Health Clinic Lemoore in September 2023. He is responsible for the healthcare and deployment medical readiness of 18,000 beneficiaries on the Navy's largest master jet base in Lemoore, CA, the Top Gun Naval Aviation Warfighter Development Center in Fallon, NV, and the Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, CA.
Immediately prior to his current assignment, CAPT Werbel served as executive officer, Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Twentynine Palms and deputy director, Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms. Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms is a community hospital that supports the largest U.S. Marine Corps training base in the world, the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. Offering air-to-ground live-fire training, this base is located in Twentynine Palms, California, and occupies 1,100 square miles in the Mojave Desert. He was also responsible for healthcare on the Navy's largest installation in China Lake, CA and the Marine Corps' elite cold weather training base in Bridgeport, CA.
Previously, CAPT Werbel served on the board of directors of the Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, where he was the director for behavioral health leading a team of over 200 staff in 14 inpatient, outpatient and partial hospitalization clinics. He was the behavioral health market service leader for the National Capitol Region-Medical Directorate facilitating standardized processes and access to care for beneficiaries in 81 clinics across 17 medical treatment facilities in the region. He also represented the Defense Health Agency Large Markets on the Military Health System’s Behavioral Health Clinical Community implementing the principles of high reliability organizations to behavioral health in the Department of Defense Healthcare Network.
CAPT Werbel also served as the chief of staff, Healthcare Operations (N3), Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) where he led a staff of 270 to ensure smooth operations in Navy Medicine’s 27 global treatment facilities, directing policy development to guide 63,000 providers in their care for over 2.7 million beneficiaries worldwide. During this tour he also served as the interim assistant deputy chief BUMED and the Navy liaison officer to the DHA governance system in support of the Navy surgeon general and deputy surgeon general. Past assignments included: director, Midshipmen Development Center, United States Naval Academy; acting senior medical officer and ship’s psychologist, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69); behavioral health affairs officer, Headquarters, United States Marine Corps (Manpower & Reserve Affairs), Quantico, Virginia; department head, mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation program, U.S. Naval Hospital, Naples, Italy; and staff psychologist, mental health and internal medicine HIV/AIDS clinic, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.
A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Captain Werbel received his Bachelor of Science with honors in psychology from the University of Michigan (1988), and a Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology from Michigan State University (1993, 1997). He was commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy in 1996 and completed his pre-doctoral clinical internship at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland in 1997.
EXECUTIVE OFFICER
CAPTAIN Mathew R. Loe
Nurse Corps
United States Navy
Captain Mathew R. Loe completed his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1995 and his Master of Science in Nursing at The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston in 2001. In 2012, he completed the Doctor of Nursing Practice at Texas Tech Health Science Center with Honors. He was awarded Best Capstone Clinical Project for his work on heat illness and inducted into Sigma Theta Tau. In 2014, he completed a post-doctorate Certificate in Executive Leadership from Texas Tech Health Science Center.
After an extensive civilian career, CAPT Loe joined the U.S. Navy in support of the Global War on Terrorism. As Officer-in-Charge, Expeditionary Medical Facility Dallas One, Detachment J, led a team supporting global contingency operations and a medical readiness clinic that supported thirty-two commands. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2008, served as Embedded Training Team Chief and Senior Mentor to the 203rd Afghan Army Garrison Commander, Polish Liaison Officer, and Medical Embedded Training Team Leader responsible for all Forward Operating Base departments supporting over three thousand Afghan Army and four hundred North Atlantic Treaty Organization personnel. After deployment, served as Primary Care Manager and Department Head of Deployment Health at Naval Branch Health Clinic Gulfport, Mississippi supporting medical readiness requirements for over thirty commands throughout the Gulf Coast region and medical screening for global contingency operations. Next served at the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, as Branch Head of Family Readiness, Program Manager for LIMDU SMART, and coordinator for enlisted and Marine Corps accession program waivers. Further tours include, Senior Medical Officer of United States Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System Redzikowo, Poland, and Department Head of Readiness and Primary Care Manager at Bangor, Washington. Most recently held several roles to include Director for Clinical Support Services, Director for Branch Clinics, and as Officer-in-Charge Marine Corps Air Station all at Naval Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Beaufort, South Carolina. Currently Services as Executive Officer NMRTC Lemoore and Deputy Director Naval Health Clinic Lemoore, California.
Loe's awards include the Meritorious Service Medal (3), Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (3), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, and as 2009 Association of the United States Navy Bea Ratner Nurse Corps Junior Officer of the Year.
COMMAND MASTER CHIEF
HMCM Eric M. Morgan (FMF/SW/AW)
United States Navy
Master Chief Petty Officer Morgan is a native of Otsego, Michigan. In May 1999, he enlisted in the United States Navy and attended basic training in Great Lakes, IL. Upon completion of Recruit Training in Great Lakes, IL, he received a meritorious promotion to E-2, as Division Honor Recruit. He completed Field Medical Service School Camp Pendleton, CA in February 2000, then joined STA Platoon, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marine in Kaneohe Bay, HI and 2 years later, transferred to Heavy CAAT platoon, completing a 4-year tour there. While there, he successfully completed 2 UDPs to Okinawa, Japan, Operation Crocodile in Australia, and JTF 510 in Zamboanga, Philippines. He was also promoted to Petty Officer Second Class and earned his FMF Warfare Qualification.
In February 2004, he transferred to Branch Medical Clinic Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, CA. While serving as the Leading Petty Officer (LPO) of the Sick-Call department, he deployed on the USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) in support of Operation Unified Assistance the Indonesian Tsunami Relief effort.
In February 2006, he attended the Naval School of Health Sciences in San Diego, CA for 13 months and completed Advanced X-Ray School. Upon completion of C School, he reported to R.E. Bush Naval Hospital 29 Palms, CA, where he was the LPO of the Radiology Department.
In October 2010, he reported to Branch Health Annex Camp Fuji, Japan where he led the charge in Spring of 2011 with his fellow Marines from Camp Fuji in Operation Tomodachi. He served as the Senior Medical Department Representative (SMDR) from the Sendai Airport, providing sick-call and preventive medicine services. He also conducted clean-up efforts, personnel recovery, and food, fuel, and water supply delivery to over 30,000 displaced Japanese citizens. After Operation Tomodachi, he took an Individual Augmented deployment to Bahrain in support of OEF from August 2011 to March 2012.
From July 2012 to April 2014, he did follow-on tours with Combat Logistics Regiment 1, Georgia Liaison Team Rotation 10 (GLT 10) in Camp Pendleton, CA. While GLT returned to the states, he remained in Afghanistan to fulfill the responsibilities of the SMDR for the 215 Corps Engineer Kandak, ANA SFATT team. After returning from Afghanistan, he transferred to 1
st MLG, G3 Navy Tactical Readiness and Training Department where he was selected to Chief Petty Officer in August 2015.
In March 2016 Chief Morgan transferred to Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) as the Directorate for Surgical Services, Orthopaedic Surgery Department LCPO. While attached to NMCSD, he was augmented to the USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) in support of Pacific Partnership-18 (PP18) and was assigned as the Senior Enlisted Leader for Surgical Services in support of PP18.
From October 2018 to November 2021 Chief Morgan served on the USS Nimitz (CVN 68), where he assumed responsibilities as the Dental Department LCPO. In November 2021 Senior Chief Morgan reported to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton where he is served as the Interim Command Master Chief. In January 2025 Master Chief Morgan reported as the Command Master Chief of Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Lemoore.
HMCM Morgan’s personal decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Marine Corps Commendation with two gold star and one combat “V”, Joint Service Achievement Medal and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal with three gold stars.