Military To Civilian Careers
National Guard soldiers deploy to Arkansas hospitals to help with COVID-19 testing. The Arkansas National Guard announced Jan. 6 in a press release that 40 National Guardsmen from the 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team will deploy to nine hospitals across that state to assist local health care facilities as case numbers rise.
Positive COVID-19 test shatters US soldier’s dream of Olympic gold in pole vaulting. TOKYO — An Army reserve officer has withdrawn from the Olympic pole-vaulting contest after testing positive for the coronavirus days before he was to compete.
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The Navy is allowing sailors and Marines on Okinawa to keep excess use-or-lose leave they accrued during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a recent Navy memo.
National Guard members mobilized in support of the military’s COVID-19 response are now eligible for extended Tricare benefits under the Transitional Assistance Management Program, or TAMP. This change, mandated by … Read More
The Pentagon has tapped more than 1,000 additional troops to help with the COVID-19 vaccination effort. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has authorized 10 more teams to support the Federal Emergency … Read More
Experts stress that the Covid-19 vaccines are performing well — but that only heightens the need to lower stubbornly high case rates. Several new coronavirus variants have been identified in … Read More
In a straw poll of 810 active-duty military personnel, spouses and veterans, more than half of active-duty families, or 53%, said they did not plan to get the COVID-19 vaccine, … Read More
WASHINGTON – Thirty-seven hospitals within the Department of Veterans Affairs have been selected to receive the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine, though VA officials are not confident that every … Read More
Dec 2020 By Richard Sick In Ohio and West Virginia, National Guardmembers broke down the first shipments of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine into smaller packages for transportation to vaccination sites. In Oklahoma, … Read More
By Hope Hodge Seck This story was last updated Nov. 9. As COVID-19 continues to spread to communities across the country, the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs are … Read More
