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Camp Arifjan senior leaders show confidence during one-shot COVID-19 vaccine rollout
March 13, 2021 — CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait -- Senior military leaders here joined the March 13 rollout of Operation Med Spear, which is the expansion of COVID-19 vaccination for all civilian and military personnel in the U.S. Central Command footprint. "Operation Med Spear is something we have been working towards in this theater for many, many months," said Army Reserve Brig. Gen. Justin Swanson, who was vaccinated at the event, and is the deputy commanding general of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command... MORE

Maj. Gen. Patrick Hamilton, the commanding general of Texas National Guard's 36th Infantry, deployed to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, as the commanding general of Task Force Spartan braces for his one-dose Janssen Biotech COVID-19 vaccine during the camp's March 13, 2021 rollout of Operation Med Spear. Unlike other COVID-19 vaccines, the Janssen vaccine does not have to be frozen in transit, which makes it easier to distribute to Soldiers deployed overseas. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Neil W. McCabe)

ARCENT K-9 Conducts EOD Training
March 10, 2021 — They trained in roadway, compound, and building searches to work on their identification and detection, skills essential for proficiency in the field. While the military working dogs were searching for ordnance on the ground, the handlers had to keep their eyes peeled on the surrounding area. “This is a way for us to integrate what we need to look for as handlers,” U.S. Navy Master-at-Arms 2nd Class Petty Officer Michael Vanbergriff, a kennel supervisor with ASG-KU DES K-9, said. “When your dog is working a roadway, you don’t need to be paying attention to the dog. What the handler needs to be doing is searching the surroundings for other areas of interest.”... MORE

U.S Army Spc. Ignacio Torres, a military working dog handler with Area Support Group-Kuwait Directorate of Emergency Services Canine, carries his military working dog during a canine explosive ordnance detection course at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Mar. 4, 2021. Military working dog handlers are paired with a single military working dog, allowing each handler to get to know the ins and outs of their dog to ensure maximum efficiency in the field. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Maximilian Huth, ARCENT Public Affairs)

The Army’s Funded Legal Education Program provides new opportunity for 1st TSC commissioned officer
March 8, 2021 — With clear skies and the sun shining, a commissioned officer from DeWitt, Michigan, stood tall as his infantry branch insignia was removed and replaced with his new Judge Advocate General insignia. A moment that signified the beginning of a new career path made possible through the Army’s Funded Legal Education Program... MORE

Male soldier in dress uniform raises right hand across from male soldier in dress uniform holding notebook.

ASG Kuwait K-9s Conduct EOD Training
March 3, 2021 — CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait – Service members with Area Support Group-Kuwait Directorate of Emergency Services Canine (ASG-KU DES K-9) partnered with National Guard Soldiers from 745th Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Grayling, Mich., to conduct canine explosive ordinance detection training at Buehring, Kuwait, on March 3-4, 2021... MORE

Deployed Army Nurse, Taking Care of Soldiers is My Job
March 2, 2021 — Capt. Meagan Barker is a 66S (Critical Care Nurse) working in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU); deployed with the 228th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) deployed to Kuwait. As part of Women’s History Month, we are spotlighting her and her deployment mission. The 228th CSH Mission is to provide theater hospitalization in support of forces, in CENTCOM Area of Operation, and provide area medical support to camps within Kuwait and other locations. This mission keeps Barker engaged with a wide-spectrum of patients. “Being an ICU Nurse I am able to take an assortment of patients to assist in effectively taking care of our Soldiers. Also, being a Post Anesthesia Care Unit Recovery Nurse I support recovering a patient right after surgery in the ICU until they are stable to return to duty,” said Capt. Meagan Barker. “My Goal growing up was to care for Soldiers and I never fathomed that, whether inside or outside the hospital, they have blessed my live just as much as I have blessed theirs,” Barker said. ... MORE

Capt. Meagan Barker is a 66S (Critical Care Nurse) working in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU); deployed with the 228th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) deployed to Kuwait. As part of Women’s History Month, we are spotlighting her and her deployment mission.

Army Reserve Soldiers deployed to Camp Arifjan reflect on Black History Month
March 1, 2021 — Army Reserve Soldiers deployed here shared their thoughts about Black History Month and Black culture in America... MORE

Army Reserve Chief Warrant Officer Denrick Mills, an air mobility warrant officer deployed to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, with the 310th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), said his favorite Black History story is the Triple Nickel “smokejumpers.” In 1945, the all-black 555th Airborne Infantry Battalion was ordered to Oregon to fight forest fires started by nature and by incendiary-bearing balloons sent into West Coast forests by the Japanese. “They used this airborne unit to jump in an put the fire out—that’s how the smokejumpers started,” he said.

Ambassador praises Army Reserve medical Soldiers
February 24, 2021 — The United States ambassador to Kuwait honored three Army Reserve Soldiers Thursday at a ceremony at the U.S. embassy here for rendering first aid to a pedestrian struck on a highway... MORE

Despite emotional toll, 28th ECAB Soldiers honor the fallen
February 24, 2021 — Following a fatal accident in January, chaplains and religious affairs specialists with the 28th ECAB responded immediately to provide support to Soldiers who were grieving the loss of their friend... MORE

U.S. Soldiers with the 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade's mortuary affairs team train on search and recovery. Search and recovery is a tactical task that includes the search and recovery, tentative identification, care and evacuation of human remains within the unit's area of responsibility.

Desert Storm veterans recall pre-deployment training at Fort McCoy, wartime service with 890th TC
February 23, 2021 — Thirty years after the completion of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm, former Army Sgts. Mark Christensen and Phillip Cornelius remember their service with the Army Reserve’s 890th Transportation Company quite vividly. And through all the time since they served together in the deserts of Southwest Asia in 1990 and 1991, both men have remained the best of friends. Some would even say they are like brothers... MORE

Civilian, military medical personnel deployed to Kuwait get second COVID-19 vaccinations
February 22, 2021 — Military and civilian medical professionals deployed here received their second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, all part of the initial vaccinations in the Middle East theater... MORE

Lt. Col. Harold Yu, the deputy surgeon for Area Support Group-Kuwait and the officer-in-charge of the U.S. Army Health Clinic Kuwait, looks away as he receives his second Moderna COVID-19 vaccine dose Feb. 15, 2021 at the Camp Arifjan, Kuwait hospital. Yu said: “This vaccination is no different from any other shot I ever got. Really, I didn’t even feel it.”

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