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Advertisement The Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command headquarters was deactivated April 30 at a ceremony in Baghdad, signifying the end of major combat operations in Iraq against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and acknowledging the changing composition and responsibilities of the coalition. CJFLCC was responsible for coalition land force operations in support of Iraqi security forces during the campaign to defeat ISIS in Iraq and liberate more than 4.5 million Iraqis subject to ISIS’ brutal control. Iraqi and coalition leaders attended the ceremony that formally transferred ...

San Antonio-based Army North dispatches medical personnel to New Mexico FacebookTwitterEmail To keep our community informed of the most urgent coronavirus news, our  U.S. Army North said Wednesday it was deploying military medical personnel to battle the coronavirus pandemic in the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. It sent elements of Task Force 51, a deployable command post, to Farmington on Friday. Only days earlier, the command ordered military medical specialists to four hospitals in Wisconsin. Some in those task forces came from San Antonio. Army North, the Joint Force Land Component Command...

Army Guard task force deploys to Wisconsin to fight COVID-19 December 10, 2020 Army Master Sgt. Danny Neelis, left, a liaison officer for the military personnel augmenting the Hospitals of Providence Transmountain in El Paso, Texas, introduces his replacement, Air Force Maj. Gregory “Chuck” Taylor, right, to Capt. Carly Marsh, center, a registered nurse out of Brooke Army Medical Center who is helping to care for civilian COVID patients in El Paso. (Sgt. Samantha Hall/Army) The Army National Guard’s Task Force 46 has added another deployment to its demanding COVID-19 response missi...

Team from San Antonio's Fort Sam among Army medical units heading to Wisconsin FacebookTwitterEmail A thank you note for staff at UW Health is displayed on a wall inside a COVID-19 treatment unit as Dr. Andrew Braun, a physician on the unit, stands by in Madison, Wis. last month. Medical teams from U.S. Army North, including units from Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, are headed for Wisconsin to support hospitals grappling with the pandemic.John Hart /Associated Press U.S. Army North said Wednesday it would deploy 45 more military medical personnel to battle the coronavirus pandemic, this tim...

EAU CLAIRE — Overburdened health care workers at Marshfield Medical Center-Eau Claire are about to receive some much-needed relief, courtesy of the U.S. Army. The Department of Defense will deploy about 45 Army medical personnel to Wisconsin this week to assist the state’s efforts to combat COVID-19, Gov. Tony Evers announced Wednesday. The reinforcements will support Marshfield Clinic Health System hospitals in Eau Claire, Rice Lake, Marshfield and Beaver Dam. “Wisconsin’s healthcare system is strained, and our frontline healthcare workers are doing amazing work under ext...