Religious support team deploys to help frontline healthcare workers
Who cares for those who care for us? For the military medical providers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the answer to that question is, in part, religious support teams. In Eau Claire, Wisconsin, a team of two soldiers from the U.S. Army Reserve’s 785th Medical Detachment – Combat Operational Stress Control Unit, 330th Medical Brigade, 807th Medical Command (Deployment Support), are providing support to the nurses and respiratory therapists augmenting the civilian hospital here. The two-person religious support team (RST), comprised of Army Capt. Ian Olson, chaplain, and Army Sgt. S...