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311th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) Yearly Readiness Brief 2025

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Tag: Innovative Readiness Training

Community and 9th MSC build road to hope
August 1, 2022 — Every summer Cynthia Berns charters a 30-minute flight to her childhood home, a place tucked away only to be reached by plane or boat. On a sunny summer morning she walks on the fishing docks toward her father’s boat. The dock is surrounded by the same mountains and sea embedded in her family’s memories. For the past 10,000 years her family has worked in these lands and today she sees the faces of fishermen she’s known her whole life fixing nets and working on their skiffs, preparing for the next catch. However, every summer fewer skiffs remain, familiar faces become aged and the hands of seasoned fishermen find small relief with many of their children away from home... MORE

Army Reserve engineers develop new road in rural Alaska
July 28, 2022 — Army Reserve Soldiers of the 297th, 797th, and 871st Engineer Companies, 411th Engineer Battalion, 303rd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, 9th Mission Support Command, are constructing a road on Kodiak Island for the residents of Old Harbor that is critical for their community. ... MORE

IRT Nueces 2022 successfully comes to a close
July 7, 2022 — As the doors and trunks of various vehicles rhythmically close shut in the parking lot of West Oso Junior High School with loud thuds, Soldiers hit the road and leave Nueces County, Texas, fulfilled and better prepared, while members of the public return to their homes having gained a better sense of health and well-being after receiving no-cost healthcare. ... MORE

Arctic Care 2022 an innovative approach to medical training
June 21, 2022 — Training missions come in all shapes and sizes — and locations. Think “The Box.” But they all come with the same challenge of making it interesting, making it realistic, and getting Soldiers engaged and excited about serving in the military. The Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) mission of Arctic Care on Kodiak Island, Alaska, in May 2022 checked all those blocks... MORE

Walking Shield benefits community and Army Reserve
August 19, 2021 — IRT is an acronym that may not be known by many people, especially if you’ve never participated in the program. It stands for Innovative Readiness Training, and Army Reserve Soldiers from various medical units commanded by the 807th Medical Command (Deployment Support) came here the first two weeks of August 2021 for the mission... MORE

Innovative Readiness Training provides Army Reserve Medical Command Soldiers unique training opportunity
July 30, 2021 — Spc. Kaley Schulten and Sgt. Amanda Chadwick, both Army Reserve dental assistants, were excited when they learned their unit was selected to provide real world medical services at the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana as part of the Department of Defense Innovative Readiness Training program... MORE

Army Reserve Medical Command Soldiers provide care in local community
July 25, 2019 — Training is a primary focus for Army Reserve Medical Units during their weekend duty, known as battle assemblies, and during annual training. Leaders look for creative ways to provide meaningful training that meets objectives while resonating with their Soldiers, and for the medical professionals assigned to 7207th Medical Support Unit, based out of Webster, New York, that is the opportunity they were given while supporting the Healthy Cortland and Greater Chenango Cares Innovative Readiness Training mission in Cortland, July 9-22, 2019... MORE

Army Reserve Soldiers conduct Medical IRT clinic at Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School
July 24, 2018 — Approximately 40 Soldiers from the Army Reserve Medical Command’s 7218th Medical Support Unit, from Louisville, in partnership with Cass Lake Indian Health Service are offering no-cost healthcare services at the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School from July 10-19... MORE

Army multicomponent medical mission makes lasting impression in local community
July 16, 2018 — A 7-year-old little girl, joined by her mother, walked through the front doors of Harrisburg Middle School to be greeted by volunteers who would escort her to her first encounter with a dentist. Not just any dentist and not the normal location for dental care either, but a dentist with a military uniform joined by a friendly military team who would distract her, reducing her fears while taking care of her teeth for the first time in her young life. Before the little girl left, she told the team that she wanted to be a dentist when she grew up... MORE

Army Reserve medical personnel improve readiness serving local communities
July 9, 2018 — During a time when readiness is at the forefront of every military leader’s mind, unit commanders are focused on creative ways to ensure their unit and Soldiers get the best training possible while meeting requirements at both the individual and collective levels. For some medical units, this is where the Department of Defense’s Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) missions come in... MORE

Army Reserve medical personnel improves readiness serving local communities

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