Operation Capital Medic – Leading the way for medical readiness Operation Capital Medic, a medical readiness mission held at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital for over a year now, is increasing the readiness of service members in the Washington, DC area. It is estimated that about 5000 Reserve and National Guard Soldiers live in the Washington, DC area, and Army Reserve Medical Command’s 7250th Medical Support Unit has provided medical and dental services to nearly 1500 of them, helping them get off the red list one Soldier at a time.
Lt. Col. Julie Fung-Hayes, an emergency physician and flight surgeon, shares why she loves serving in the U.S. Army Reserve. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/2FlT26s
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Holistic Health and Fitness training builds readiness across the Army Reserve
U.S. Army Reserve Soldier Sgt. 1st Class Penny Mosley, supply sergeant for the Army Reserve Medical Command in Pinellas Park, Fla,, gives coaching feedback to a Soldier as part of the Holistic Health and Fitness-Integrator Augmentation Training, or HAT, at AR-MEDCOM headquarters in the C.W. Bill Young Armed Forces Reserve Center, Jan. 23, 2026. The training and best practices acquired at HAT enables units to help build combat-ready formations by investing in the people who sustain them. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Jerry T. Zuetrong)
Feb. 5, 2026 - U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers participated in Holistic Health and Fitness Integrator Augmentation Training at the Army Reserve Medical Command from Jan. 21-25, as part of a Reserve-focused course designed to help leaders apply...

Army Reserve Soldier's 'sustained excellence' recognized with promotion to colonel
Anne and David Pampuch pin silver eagle rank on their daughter, Col. Jennifer S. Pampuch Borden, U.S. Army Financial Management Command Reserve Component senior advisor and U.S. Army Reserve Medical Command assistant chief of staff for resource management, during her promotion ceremony at the Maj. Gen. Emmett J. Bean Federal Center in Indianapolis, Jan. 9, 2026. Since her graduation for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Pampuch Borden served in all three Army components as both a military police officer and finance officer. (U.S. Army photo by Mark R. W. Orders-Woempner)
Feb. 4, 2026 - Spreading her wings, the Army’s newest “full-bird” colonel recently pinned on new silver eagles. Jennifer S. Pampuch Borden, U.S. Army Financial Management Command Reserve Component senior advisor and U.S. Army Reserve...

7248th Medical Support Unit, 7413th Troop Medical Clinic sharpen readiness pipeline for large-scale combat operations
U.S. Army Reserve Maj. Alyssa Stefl, an audiologist and individual augmentee to the El Paso, Texas-based 7413th Troop Medical Clinic, speaks to a service member in the hearing booth as part of a pre-deployment audio examination at the Vogel Hall Soldier Readiness and Processing Center, located in Fort Bliss on Jan. 15, 2026. Ensuring that service members receive proper medical care pre- and post-deployment enables them to have potential issues addressed and appropriate treatment streamlined for the future. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Jerry T. Zuetrong)
Jan. 28, 2026 - Army Reserve Soldiers of the 7248th Medical Support Unit and the 7413th Troop Medical Clinic, both of which are based out of El Paso, Texas, have been providing medical and dental staffing and support to the Vogel Hall...

Missouri-based Army Reserve Soldiers amplify Fort Hood mobilization platform
U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Brennon Hanks, a dental specialist with the Columbia, Mo., based 7406th Troop Medical Clinic, performs an X-ray on a Soldier during a dental examination at the Deployment Readiness Center in Fort Hood, Texas, Jan. 12, 2026. Soldiers of both the 7406th TMC and the Houston, Texas-based 7240th Medical Support Unit were mobilized to Fort Hood, Texas in order to provide medical staffing and support of the overall Mobilization Force Generation Installation, or MFGI, platform to validate and care for pre- and post-deployment service members and civilians. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. 1st Class Christopher A. Hernandez)
Jan. 28, 2026 - Army Reserve Soldiers of the Kirksville, Missouri-based 7240th Medical Support Unit and the Columbia, Missouri-based 7406th Troop Medical Clinic have respectively been providing medical and dental staffing and support to the...

Sound body, sound mind: The Army Reserve audiologist who outruns the noise
(Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Reserve Maj. Alyssa Stefl)
Jan. 26, 2026 - By day, U.S. Army Reserve Maj. Alyssa Stefl listens closely for what many Soldiers cannot hear. By night and on weekends, she runs farther than most would dare, pushing her body and mind to their limits in ultramarathons that...

Brig. Gen. Christopher Piland
Commanding General, Military Readiness and Training Command
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