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Fort Hunter Liggett: 85 years of mission readiness on display

Eighty-five years of warfighting history came alive on May 2 during Fort Hunter Liggett’s (FHL) milestone Anniversary Open House...

U.S. personnel apply new innovative sustainment assessment during African Lion 26

African Lion 26 continues to strengthen military partnerships across Africa, and this year’s exercise introduced a new tool to...

87th Training Division leaders provide aid at Indiana crash scene

Two Army Reserve soldiers assigned to the 87th Training Division found themselves responding to a real-world emergency while...

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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

Partnership in the Pacific: Army Reserve nurse provides medical care for Coast Guard unit
July 10, 2020 — A surgical nurse with the functional specialty team in the 322nd Civil Affairs Brigade, 9th Mission Support Command, began her voyage on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Gerczak, in order to provide advanced medical support and ensure the health and safety of all crew members while the Coast Guard conducts Hawaiian Island patrol... MORE

Army Reserve nurse deploys to Saipan in support of COVID-19 response
July 2, 2020 — Maj. James F. Schmidt, a certified nurse anesthetist, was one of six nurses assigned to the 1984th U.S. Army Hospital – Pacific, 9th Mission Support Command, that deployed to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to provide medical expertise in support of COVID-19 response efforts... MORE

Protecting the protectors: Reserve Soldier on front lines helps contain COVID-19 spread
June 24, 2020 — She left for her first Army mission without knowledge of her final destination, or when she’d be able to return home to her two dogs, cat and bearded dragon. As she prepared to leave for the mission in early April, Capt. Holly Beard, an Army Reserve entomologist, had only one certainty: she’d be battling against the spread of a deadly virus... 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.

Black Hawk, blackout and a dunk tank: 2 Army Reserve Soldiers complete flight nurse training
June 16, 2020 — It’s hard to get a Soldier into flight nurse training in any given year, especially hard if you’re in the Army Reserve. The U.S. Army School of Aviation Medicine (USASAM), Fort Rucker, Ala., is the Army’s center for training flight surgeons, aeromedical physician assistants, flight medics, flight nurses, and aeromedical evacuation officers, out of Fort Rucker, Alabama. The flight nurse course is offered four times a year, but generally only one slot is available for an Army Reserve Soldier to attend... MORE

Black Hawk, black out and dunk tank: 2 Army Reserve Soldiers complete flight nurse training

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

Hendersonville, N.C., physician assistant serves with military COVID-19 response
June 8, 2020 — “Working face to face with the American people on this mission is the proudest I have been in my career,” said Capt. Jeremy Moses. “I am glad that we were called upon to help in this way.” Moses, a physician assistant, recently mobilized with an Army Reserve Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force. He is one of more than 1,200 Army Reserve medical professionals that were activated as part of the Department of Defense response to COVID-19, led by U.S. Northern Command. ... 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

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