By SHELLI PARKER | Athens Daily Review, Texas | Published: March 2, 2021 ATHENS, Texas (Tribune News Service) When Chief Warrant Officer 5 Doug Phillips was a young boy, he remembers a helicopter landing in his backyard. His father, a military pilot, stepped out. After that moment, all of his education, training and motivation drove him toward that goal and he joined the National Guard at 18. Now three decades later, he has brought 48,000 lbs. of hope with water deliveries to Cedar Creek Lake in his Chinook helicopter. When I was between 3 and 5 years old, I was riding my big wheel outside. My father was a helicopter pilot and he landed a Huey helicopter basically in our backyard while he ran in to get maps, Phillips said. I knew that was what I wanted to do. Now I have been in the Army for 30 years.
The next phase includes people between the ages of 16 to 64 with increased risk of severe illness as defined by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, William Beaumont Army Medical Center officials said.
By CRISTINA CARREON | El Paso Times | Published: January 18, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. EL PASO, Texas (Tribune News Service) El Paso school district superintendents say virtual learning technology and heightened sanitation measures will continue playing important roles as students and educators tread cautiously, but hopefully, toward learning in post-pandemic classrooms. Technology has played a vital role in education systems in America for decades, but teachers have learned new skills and have more online tools to support remote teaching and learning, Canutillo ISD Superintendent Pedro Galaviz said in a December message to parents.