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‘Verge of collapsing’: Soldiers describe initial fight against COVID-19
July 17, 2020 — It’s an invisible enemy. At least that’s how Soldiers felt about COVID-19 after their six-week stint at the overburdened University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, where they said it was more like a war zone... MORE

Childhood tumor leads hockey player to health care career, the Army and COVID-19 battle
June 17, 2020 — He had taken hits on the ice before. But not like this. During a hockey game in 2001, an opponent knocked 13-year-old Jimmy Ennis to the floor and swiped him briskly on the chin. The incident led to the discovery of a brain tumor, and his treatment inspired his future work in health care, which now includes serving as part of an Army Reserve Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force in response to COVID-19... MORE

1Lt. James Ennis, resident of Salem, N.H. just completed a deployment to combat COVID-19 at Elmhurst Hospital-Queens, as part of an Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force with the US Army Reserve.

Md. nurse practitioner served first mobilization on the front lines of military COVID-19 response
June 11, 2020 — “My passion is giving patients hope and helping them to recover from their illness,” stated Capt. Chimdinma Deborah Ojini. “I am glad to answer the nation’s call to help the American public, even with the few hours of notice.” A nurse practitioner serving on the front lines of the national COVID-19 response as a member of an Army Reserve Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force, Ojini marked her one-year commissioning anniversary of when she first became an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve... MORE

Call to Service: Army psychologist on the COVID-19 battlefront
June 11, 2020 — He knew they weren’t calling to say hello. The Army Reserve Soldier expected to be mobilized after images of the USNS Comfort in New York Harbor were on news channels worldwide March 30. But even as the country faced its worst pandemic in a century, Maj. Paul Harrigan didn’t know how fast his call to serve in the fight would be... MORE

New Army lieutenant fulfills childhood desire to serve
June 5, 2020 — Sixteen cadets from the City University of New York’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps became Army second lieutenants during a virtual commissioning ceremony June 5... MORE

Boston University student and Army Reserve Soldier participates in NYC COVID-19 response
June 4, 2020 — While many college students adapted to completing their spring semester virtually, one Boston University undergraduate found himself in the epicenter of the response efforts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Spc. Owen Kearney, an Army Reserve Soldier and BU political science major, was in a virtual class when he received the call to report with his unit for mobilization. ... MORE

Army Reserve flight surgeon joins fight against COVID-19 in New York City
May 29, 2020 — Medical workers and other experts have been on the frontlines fighting the coronavirus pandemic since the infection surged in the United States in early March... MORE

Mortuary affairs unit provides critical help in COVID-19 crisis
May 12, 2020 — Surrounded by the densely packed skyscrapers of the Big Apple, Soldiers of the 54th Quartermaster Company have been hard at work across the five boroughs of New York helping the NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) in the city’s ongoing fight against COVID-19... MORE

Army Reserve mortuary affairs unit provides critical help in COVID-19 crisis

Citizen-Soldier living motto 'One Team, One Fight' in battle against COVID-19
May 7, 2020 — “The military team here includes some of the greatest healthcare workers I have ever worked with,” stated Army Reserve Lt. Col. John Patrick O'Donnell. “I am very proud to be part of the team working at the Javits Center and Lincoln Hospital.”... MORE

Citizen-Soldier living the motto 'One Team, One Fight' in battle against COVID-19

Glen Mills, Pa., native mobilized to the Bronx as Army Reserve physician assistant
May 4, 2020 — “I am excited that we will be able to have a very direct effect on Americans’ lives,” stated 1st Lt. Gabriella Colombo, an Army Reserve 65D, physician assistant. “To apply lessons that I have learned, throughout my Army training as well as civilian training, to assist our citizens so we can defeat COVID-19 together.”... MORE

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