“This contract award greatly enhances our capability to provide rapid and agile response to meet the Navy’s ever changing contingency requirements from natural disasters to humanitarian efforts to assisting in military conflict.”-Rear Adm. Dean VanderLey, NAVFAC Atlantic
On 15JUL2021, the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Atlantic announced it will spend $5-billion on global […] Continue Reading…
“Until yesterday, Haiti was the only country in the Americas without a single dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Today, 500,000 doses of vaccine donated by the U.S government through COVAX landed in Port-Au-Prince, the capital city of Haiti.”-United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Senior Chief Petty […] Continue Reading…
“To our knowledge, this is the first time, at least at Navy Medicine commands, to have a fire engine pump hundreds of gallons of water to a DECON team to use in helping decontaminate patients.”-Terry Lerma, Naval Hospital Bremerton emergency manager
Preparations for the overdue Cascadia Event continues, this time striking the U.S. Navy’s hospital […] Continue Reading…
“A lot of the medics had never been in the back of an ambulance…. …They are able to learn the new equipment, different ways of using it and get out on the streets to use it on actual patients in the field.”-Master Sergeant Gregg Hecathorn, 150th Special Operations Wing
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“We hope to blaze a trail to help other programs in the future successfully convert to Title 5 positions. We are making sure we build a premier organization that’s a benchmark for the Air National Guard to replicate.”-Chief Master Sergeant Mark Kaufmann, 131st Bomb Wing Security Forces
It has been revealed that back in December […] Continue Reading…
According to the Vermont National Guard Public Affairs, 18 medical professionals with the Air Force and Army National Guard are spending two weeks in the West African country of Senegal.
“Participating in partnership exercises like this benefit the Vermont National Guard by placing them in a forward environment. It also provides staff members the opportunity […] Continue Reading…
U.S. Northern Command (NorthCom) and North American Aerospace Defense Command (aka Nor-ad) conducted what they call a Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE-3), part of an Architecture Demonstration and Evaluation (ADE-5).
Michigan ANG A-10C. Photo by photo […] Continue Reading…
Alaska is known for Ring of Fire earthquakes and volcanoes, so far this year lots of quakes, and the United States Geological Survey/Alaska Volcano Observatory lists five volcanoes as “restless” and even raised alert levels for some.
Alaska Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Julie Avey.On 09JUL2021, the Alaska […] Continue Reading…
In the middle of June 2021, Virginia Army National Guard’s 29th Infantry Division (ID) completed Operation Spartan Shield training on North Fort Hood, Texas.
Virginia Army National Guard Army photo by Staff Sergeant Marc Heaton.They will be deploying to Kuwait as part of Task Force Spartan, it is not their first […] Continue Reading…
On 09JUL2021, five Alaska Army National Guard personnel from the 2nd Battalion, 641st Aviation Regiment, said good bye as they headed for deployment training in Texas. Their final destination is in Kuwait, as part of Task Force Spartan.
Tennessee National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Timothy Cordeiro.They will join other C-12 […] Continue Reading…