Story by Capt. Benjamin Aronson | U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa | 01.13.2026
This past December, representatives of ministries of health and defense from 34 African nations and the U.S. came together in Rabat, Morocco, for the 11th African Partnership Outbreak Response Alliance Workshop, focusing on strengthening health security by operationalizing civil-military collaboration in outbreak preparedness and response....
Courtesy Story | 8th Army | 05.25.2022
Eighth Army confronted COVID-19 in January 2020 as South Korea announced its first cases. Within mere weeks, the infection rate skyrocketed, turning South Korea into the second epicenter of the global pandemic....
Story by Andrea Chaney | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | 06.03.2021
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) renovated seven regional animal disease diagnostic laboratories across Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao in the Philippines. The Agency’s Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP), a component of the Department of Defense’s Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program, works with partner nations across the world to peacefully facilitate detection......
Story by Eric Pilgrim | Fort Knox | 05.12.2020
A small team of veterans from Fort Knox are back in business making an impact on the community all this week. Known as Helping Hands, the American Red Cross food pantry program will provide a sack full of canned and boxed staple products to all Soldiers ranked E-6 and below 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. May 13-14 and all veterans during the same time May 15. The food bank is located in Bay C of Building......
Story by Lance Cpl. Isaiah Gomez | Marine Corps Installations East | 03.20.2020
Food Service personnel are conducting a base-wide school-lunch distribution program at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina....
Courtesy Story | DoW, Military-Civilian Transition Office | 03.16.2020
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The Department of Defense Military-Civilian Transition Office is closely monitoring impacts to Transition Assistance Program and Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program events as a result of the outbreak of the respiratory illness caused by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, known as COVID-19. COVID-19 continues to spread and is an increasing force health protection threat in areas......
Story by Adam Lowe | Capability Program Executive Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (CPE CBRND) | 12.20.2019
The Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense’s (JPEO-CBRND) Joint Project Manager for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Medical’s (JPM CBRN Medical) involvement with today’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approval of the world’s first Ebola vaccine contributed to a leap forward in protecting both the warfighter and......
Story by Sgt. Dengrier Baez | Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort | 02.08.2016
The Navy and Marine Corps are composed of service members from all around the U.S. with backgrounds from all around the world. Service members and their families who are planning to travel must take more precautions when doing so because of outbreaks of viruses....
