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13 NEWARK, New Jersey Team 4 of Joint Task Force Civil Support has finished their 8-week deployment in support of the federal vaccine response. They arrived to support the federal pilot Type 4 Community Vaccination Center (CVC) at St. Matthew AME Church in City of Orange and the federal pilot Type 4 CVCs at Raphael Hernandez Elementary School and Jehovah Jireh Praise & Worship Church Center, both in Newark, New Jersey on March 11 and since then have spent their time serving the local communities.
The team of 23 service members was comprised primarily of Soldiers from various duty stations as well as six Sailors. In two months, they were able to administer approximately 16,500 COVID-19 vaccines to community members.
. (Tribune News Service) The mission: to get shots in arms in communities that have been missing out in the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination push. It landed in the hands of the specialists at
Fort Eustis whose job is to help civilian agencies respond to disaster. Within days of any state’s call to the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Joint Task Force-Civil Support had soldiers, sailors, airmen,
Marines or Coast Guardsmen on the road 17 sites in 12 states. The vaccination mission was a new one for the nation’s only standing Chemical, Biological,
Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Joint Task Force, which also provides command and control of 5,200 federal military forces at more than 36 locations throughout the nation acting in support of civil authority response operations.
The 1st Medical Brigade bid farewell to outgoing brigade commander Col. Robert F. Howe II and welcomed incoming brigade commander Col. Roger S. Giraud, during a change of command ceremony