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'Desert Medics' restart COVID-19 vaccinations in CENTCOM footprint

May 13, 2021 — After a roughly one-month pause, the "Desert Medics" of the 3rd Medical Command (Deployment Support) relaunched the COVID-19 vaccination effort for personnel deployed across U.S. Central Command's area of responsibility. MORE
 'Desert Medics' restart COVID-19 vaccinations in CENTCOM footprint

Camp Arifjan senior leaders show confidence during one-shot COVID-19 vaccine rollout

March 13, 2021 — 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
 Army Reserve Sgt. Richard Liggans, a resident of Buffalo, New York, deployed to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, with the 228th Combat Support Hospital, where he serves at the noncommission officer-in-charge of the camp's Troop Medical Clinic, loads a syringe with the Janssen Biotech COVID-19 vaccine at the camp's March 13, 2021 rollout of Operation Med Spear. Unlike other vaccines, the Janssen vaccine is administered with just one shot, not two. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Neil W. McCabe)

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