WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department has established a joint task force to deal with daily requests the department is receiving for medical and personal protective equipment from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security, and...

WASHINGTON -- More than 200 military medical students and graduate nursing students from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, known as USU, will be graduating early to support their colleagues in the U.S. military health system amid the global coronavirus pandemic.USU President...

DAEGU, 27, SOUTH KOREA -- 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command (ESC) and the 2nd Operations Command, Republic of Korea (ROK) Army conducted a combined disinfection operation at an apartment complex in Daegu, Republic of Korea Mar. 13, 2020.The complex experienced an outbreak of COVID-19 a little...

WASHINGTON -- On March 21, the Chief of Naval Personnel issued NAVADMIN 080/20 which supersedes the previous stop-movement NAVADMINs, adds implementing guidance for the “authorized departure” and consolidates all the guidance into a single NAVADMIN for ease of reference and to serve as a “one-stop”...

SUKHATHAI PROVINCE, Thailand - 797th Engineer Company under the 411th Engineer Battalion, 303rd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, alongside the Royal Thai Army and the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, constructed a multi-purpose, two-room building in Sukhathai Province, Thailand during Exercise Cobra...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – Thanks to the Keystone Club at the Camp Zama Youth Center, the Missionaries of Charity in Tokyo will have more than 200 canned food goods to add to their efforts to feed the poor.Club members, however, didn’t do it alone, said Kayesha McNeill, a senior at Zama Middle High School...

SAN DIEGO -- The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) departed Naval Station San Diego today, and is now underway to Los Angeles in support of the nation’s COVID-19 response efforts."This global crisis demands whole-of-government response, and we are ready to support,” said Capt. John Rotruck, Mercy’s...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- Soldiers assigned to U.S. Army Japan’s Headquarters and Headquarters Company conducted physical training on the newly built obstacle course on Camp Zama March 20.Sgt. 1st Class Willie Williams, HHC first sergeant, who coordinated the PT, said he brought his Soldiers for an...

HONOLULU, Hawaii -- On January 27th, 2020, United Airlines Flight 200 from Tamuning, Guam to Honolulu, Hawaii started off as any other ordinary flight across the Pacific. However, when a medical emergency emerged, this routine flight quickly “went south”.First Officer Christopher Stokes, who is also...

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- Air Mobility Command today temporarily suspended most Space-Available travel aboard AMC and contracted aircraft, except for certain Category I, IV, and VI travel, effective March 21 in order to limit COVID-19’s spread and its impact on the force.The temporary suspension...