With pet care services in the CNMI limited to non-profit organizations that rely on volunteer veterinarians from off-island, many community members readily welcomed military veterinarians and their animal technicians who are on island right now for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Innovative Readiness Training Operation CNMI Wellness, which is providing no-cost medical and veterinary services.
ON the second day of the U.S. military’s Innovative Readiness Training-Wellness Mission 2023, an official in charge of the veterinarian services on Saipan estimated that she and her staff would