Wednesday, December 16, 2020

First Vaccine

 

Air Force Airman 1st Class Raymond De Jesus, assigned to the 59th Medical Wing as a medical logistics technician, and Air Force Staff Sgt. Romina Guridi, assigned to the 59th MDW as a medical logistics warehouse supervisor, pull out the first five cases of the San Antonio Military Health System’s Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shipment at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Tx., Dec. 14, 2020. The Defense Department's prioritization will be derived from the data-driven, national prioritization to help ensure fair and equitable access to everyone.

Thumbs Up!

 

Navy Seaman Norelle Dry, assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego, completes prescreening paperwork for a COVID-19 vaccine in San Diego, Dec. 15, 2020. NMCSD’s mission is to prepare service members to deploy in support of operational forces, deliver high quality health care services and shape the future of military medicine through education, training and research.

Vaccination Volunteer

 

Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Jasmin Fiorini, assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego, vaccinates a volunteering service member in San Diego, Dec. 15, 2020. NMCSD’s mission is to prepare service members to deploy in support of operational forces, deliver high quality health care services and shape the future of military medicine through education, training and research.

Tube Inspection

 

Army Spc. Emil Ubaldo, a motor transport operator assigned to the 1864th Motor Transportation Company, inspects a sample tube before assisting the medics at the Texas Station Hotel and Casino's COVID-19 community based collection site in Las Vegas, Dec. 4, 2020. Ubaldo works with the Nevada Army Guard’s Task Force South in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vaccine Screening

 

Sailors assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego fill out COVID-19 prescreening forms before being administered the COVID-19 vaccine in San Diego, Dec. 15, 2020. NMCSD employs more than 6,000 active duty military personnel, civilians, and contractors in Southern California to provide patients with world-class care anytime, anywhere..

Icy Unpack

 

Norberto Seda-Ortiz, with Tripler Army Medical Center's logistics division, unpacks a COVID-19 vaccine shipment from a dry ice container in Honolulu, Dec. 15, 2020.

Sunlit Shot

 

Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Amber Burns fires an M4 carbine rifle during live-fire training at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Dec. 15, 2020.

Lei'd Arrival

 

The fast attack submarine USS Topeka arrives in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 15, 2020, after completing a change of home port from Guam.

Mask Task

 

Marine Corps Lance Cpls. Eric Ariaza, left, and Abriel Joseph practice gas mask procedures during Exercise Samurai at Camp Hansen in Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 8, 2020. Marines demonstrated their ability to expeditiously stand up a command and control node during the exercise.

Ocean Ops

 

A Navy MH-60S Seahawk conducts a vertical replenishment on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson in the Pacific Ocean, Dec. 3, 2020.

Sharp Shooter

 

Navy Capt. Max Clark fires an M4A1 carbine during a qualification course aboard the USS Nimitz in the Arabian Sea, Dec. 15, 2020.

Chilly Chore

 

Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Jason Noel knocks down ice dams from a building at Naval Air Facility Misawa, Japan, Dec. 16, 2020.

Needle Know-How

 

Army Maj. Ronovan Ottenbacher teaches a battlefield acupuncture class to soldiers at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Dec. 14, 2020. Ottenbacher is a deputy joint force surgeon assigned to Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa.

Tactical Challenge

 

A soldier fires a rifle at targets during the Special Forces Tactical Challenge at Fort Bragg, N.C., Dec. 10, 2020. Eight teams of soldiers and celebrities competed in the challenge with pistols, battle rifles and sniper rifles.

Vaccination Validation

 

Medical workers who received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Washington D.C. Veterans Affairs Medical Center were also given a sticker commemorating the event, Dec. 15, 2020. The vaccine was delivered as part of Operation Warp Speed, a whole-of-America effort to rapidly develop, manufacture and distribute safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines to the American people.

Refueling Ops

 

Navy Seaman Philip Simpson opens the suction valve of a fuel service supply point on a fuel line during aviation refueling operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations, Dec. 6, 2020.

Vaccine Inoculation

 

Army Staff Sgt. Brenda Collins administers the COVID-19 vaccine to a patient after its arrival at Fort Hood, Texas, Dec. 15, 2020.