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Army Orders All Medical Units to Prepare for Possible Response to Virus Outbreak
Army Orders All Medical Units to Prepare for Possible Response to Virus Outbreak
FILE PHOTO -- The 41st Medical Detachment from Fort Campbell, Ky. performs a layout in preparation for an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise, Oct. 18, 2019. (U.S. Army/Beverly Roche, 40th Public Affairs Detachment)
20 Mar 2020
Military.com | By Matthew Cox
The Army's chief of Staff said Friday that the service has asked every medical unit to assess their capabilities in the event that they are needed to respond to areas hit hard by the potentially deadly novel coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier this week, the Army gave two combat support hospitals (CSH) -- one at Joint Base Lewis-McCord, Washington, and the other at Fort Campbell, Kentucky -- a "prepare to deploy order" as the U.S. government wrestles with how best to help communities if the spread of COVID-19 intensifies, Gen. James McConville told reporters at the Pentagon.
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McConville said that if a request comes in for a CSH to deploy somewhere in the country, the service might not send the one that was alerted at JBLM because the personnel may be needed in Washington state for COVID-19 response.
"Right now, the [doctors assigned to the CSH], they work in [civilian] clinics, they work in hospitals," he said. "As we stand up these hospitals, we say, 'Hey, what is the impact on the community if we take these people out of the hospitals?'
"We canceled a combat training center rotation for the 81st Stryker Brigade Combat Team because that is a National Guard brigade from Washington, and really the soldiers come from Washington and California. And we are anticipating that the governors may need them," he explained.
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FILE PHOTO -- The 41st Medical Detachment from Fort Campbell, Ky. performs a layout in preparation for an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise, Oct. 18, 2019. (U.S. Army/Beverly Roche, 40th Public Affairs Detachment)
20 Mar 2020
Military.com | By Matthew Cox
The Army's chief of Staff said Friday that the service has asked every medical unit to assess their capabilities in the event that they are needed to respond to areas hit hard by the potentially deadly novel coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier this week, the Army gave two combat support hospitals (CSH) -- one at Joint Base Lewis-McCord, Washington, and the other at Fort Campbell, Kentucky -- a "prepare to deploy order" as the U.S. government wrestles with how best to help communities if the spread of COVID-19 intensifies, Gen. James McConville told reporters at the Pentagon.
[...]
McConville said that if a request comes in for a CSH to deploy somewhere in the country, the service might not send the one that was alerted at JBLM because the personnel may be needed in Washington state for COVID-19 response.
"Right now, the [doctors assigned to the CSH], they work in [civilian] clinics, they work in hospitals," he said. "As we stand up these hospitals, we say, 'Hey, what is the impact on the community if we take these people out of the hospitals?'
"We canceled a combat training center rotation for the 81st Stryker Brigade Combat Team because that is a National Guard brigade from Washington, and really the soldiers come from Washington and California. And we are anticipating that the governors may need them," he explained.
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She suddenly needs a place to live because her basic training in the air force was cancelled. 
