06 January 2021 COVID-19 Vaccinations Begin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- An initial shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech arrived at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Dec. 31, 2020, and inoculations began the same day.The vaccine is part of Operation Warp Speed, a national initiative to...
05 January 2021 DOD and Mongolia Ministry of Defense Conduct 17th Annual Bilateral Consultative Council WASHINGTON -- U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Heino Klinck and Mongolia Ministry of Defense State Secretary D. Gankhuyag met virtually to conduct the 17th annual U.S.-Mongolia Bilateral Consultative Council, Jan. 5 (Washington, D.C.) and Jan. 6 (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia). Mongolian...
05 January 2021 Army Distributes COVID-19 Vaccine to Troops in Korea CAMP CARROLL, South Korea -- Teams at the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea (USAMMC-K), working in collaboration with the Defense Logistics Agency, began receiving, storing and distributing the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 25.USAMMC-K, the theater lead agent for medical materiel, exercised its...
05 January 2021 From Resilience to Recovery U.S. Embassy in the Philippines -- During his 1946 inaugural address, President Manual Roxas told a newly independent Philippines and the world, “We have yet a greater bulwark today…the friendship and devotion of America.” For three quarters of a century, Americans and Filipinos have met and...
04 January 2021 Steaming Into the New Year PACIFIC OCEAN -- The bridge was dark and quiet when Lt. j.g. Grace Miller, from Atlanta, Georgia, the officer of the deck, signed the first deck log entry of the New Year aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) on Jan. 1, 2021, but what was typically a...
04 January 2021 After 75 Years, Veteran Will Receive Honors for WWII Service WASHINGTON -- The Navy and the Connecticut Air National Guard on Monday will honor Connecticut native son Dan Crowley for fighting against the Japanese in the Philippines 75 years ago.Gregory J. Slavonic, who is performing the duties of the Navy undersecretary, will present Crowley with an honorary...
04 January 2021 Perna: Whole-of-America Operation Warp Speed Effort 'Remarkable Feat' WASHINGTON -- With two vaccines for COVID-19 — one from Pfizer and one from Moderna — now available to Americans following emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration, Operation Warp Speed has been moving quickly to get those doses out to everyone who needs them, OWS's chief...
30 December 2020 7th Fleet Destroyers transit Taiwan Strait The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) and USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit Dec. 31 (local time) in accordance with international law. The ships' transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free...
30 December 2020 U.S. Forces Korea Healthcare Workers and First Responders Receive COVID-19 Vaccine USAG HUMPHREYS, Republic of Korea -- United States Forces Korea (USFK) started inoculating military and civilian healthcare workers, first responders and the USFK command team with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine today across three USFK medical treatment facilities.The three locations administering the...
30 December 2020 Eielson AFB Team Exercises Rapid Combat Readiness, Demonstrates Arctic Ability EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- The 354th Fighter Wing and the 168th Wing Air National Guard completed a readiness exercise Dec. 18, 2020, verifying the wing’s ability to rapidly generate combat airpower at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. More than 30 fighters and two refueling aircraft were...