Story by Spc. Richard Barnes | Defense Department Support to FEMA COVID-19 | 01.12.2022
YUMA, Az. -- As COVID cases continue to surge throughout the country, the Department of Defense has continued its efforts to deploy military medical teams in response to the rapid influx in coronavirus numbers....
Story by Spc. Richard Barnes | Defense Department Support to FEMA COVID-19 | 11.03.2021
ST. GEORGE, Utah -- Help for medical practitioners combatting the coronavirus in Utah arrived Tuesday, Nov. 2, as Department of Defense service members arrived in St. George to assist the Utah Department of Health in administering monoclonal antibody infusions in the Southern region of the “Beehive” state....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Hughes | Defense Department Support to FEMA COVID-19 | 10.20.2021
LAFAYETTE, La. -- U.S. Navy and Army service members assigned to Medical Response Team #1, Task Force Lafayette, completed their COVID response-hospital augmentation mission with an awards ceremony at Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center in Lafayette, Louisiana, Oct. 20, 2021. The task force created a critical care unit where its medical specialist treated the sickest COVID patients in......
Story by Spc. Hunter Garcia | Federal Vaccine Response | 05.11.2021
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA – Senior Airman Marcus Dufour, an air traffic control apprentice assigned to the 509th Bombardment Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, explains his role at the Community Vaccination Center (CVC) at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul, Minnesota....
Story by Maj. Brandon Mace | Defense Department Support to FEMA COVID-19 | 05.21.2020
Among the ranks of unsung heroes in the military’s response to COVID-19 in the Northeast United States stands the behavioral health professionals focused on giving service members, patients and frontline workers the tools they need to strengthen their mental resilience....
Story by Gina Baltrusch | U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command | 05.14.2020
Sanitizing office spaces, reconfiguring some work areas to maintain social distancing and obtaining needed quantities of germ-killing supplies in a high-demand market, rank high on the list of ways U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command’s Internal Logistics (G-4) staff are preparing the command’s workspaces in this COVID-19 environment....
Story by Spc. Joshua Cowden | Defense Department Support to FEMA COVID-19 | 05.06.2020
Philadelphia, Pa.—This year, 2020, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, and has been designated as the Year of the Nurse by the World Health Organization. This year’s theme is “integrating for excellence,” and it could not have fit a better year....
Story by Spc. chafelmer kroll | Defense Department Support to FEMA COVID-19 | 04.30.2020
Dual Military couple, Sgt. George Wainwright of Priceville, Al and Pfc Parker Wainwright of Dallas, Tx both assigned to the 54th Quarter Master Company at Fort Lee, Va., share their story of serving together as Mortuary Affairs Specialist deployed to Disaster Portable Morgue Unit 4, Brooklyn, Ny. U.S. Northern Command, through U.S. Army North, is providing military support to the Federal......
