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Subscribe "Since day one, she has demonstrated that she is the right person for the job, from overseeing the deployment of our National Guard to our vaccination sites, to taking immediate action to keep our veterans safe, to sending National Guard members to our nation's capital to defend our democracy. I know that Colonel Hou will bring the same dedication to this job as she has exhibited throughout her entire career, including her tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan." Hou's background in both military and medicine have prepared her for the job she's likely to take, though the nomination m...

Army STARRS New Soldier Study (NSS): The First Days of Service The New Soldier Study (NSS) is one of five main parts of the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS). Data from the NSS component help the research team learn more about the men and women who chose to enter the military as they begin their Army careers. To capture this information, soldiers were asked, in their first hours of initial entry training, to consider volunteering for Army STARRS. Data collection took place at three training installations and began in February 2011. By the time the data ...

Vaccine refusals not being tracked, because ‘demand far outstrips supply,’ Army leaders say Army Spc. Hana Lee receives her first dose of the COVID vaccine Jan. 14. (Kirk Frady/Army) Army officials say they’re not tracking how many soldiers refuse vaccination against the novel coronavirus because the number of troops who want the shot is still greater than the number of doses available. But the gap is closing, and the Pentagon’s pause on administering the Johnson and Johnson vaccine is expected to lift this week, which will help troops serving in austere locations because the one-...

Yost, hospital commander (Troop Program Unit), 228th Medical Command Hospital, Forward Detachment 2, U.S. Military Hospital, Operation Spartan Shield, Kuwait, to deputy commander for professional services (Troop Program Unit), 807th Medical Command (Deployment Support), Saint Charles, Missouri. /Public Release. This material comes from the originating organization and may be of a point-in-time nature, edited for clarity, style and length. View in full here. Why? Well, unlike many news organisations, we have no sponsors, no corporate or ideological interests. We don't put up a paywall – we ...

80% of Active-Duty Soldiers Will Be Vaccinated by July 4th, Army Surgeon General Pledges Soldiers with the 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion, 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade, pose for a photo before receiving their first round of COVID-19 vaccinations on Jan. 26, 2021, at Camp Buehring, Kuwait. Medical workers, like these, are the first in the 28th ECAB to receive the vaccinations. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Justin Shaffer) 14 Apr 2021 Military.com | By Stephen Losey and Matthew Cox The Army is ...