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6 GRAFENWOEHR, Germany – Military spouses of several senior ranking officials took part in a quality-of-life tour of U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria on Thursday, March 11. The tour highlighted PCS procedures, housing, child care, health care, spouse employment, religious and recreational opportunities on the installation.
Special guests included Angela Abernethy, spouse of U.S. Army Europe and Africa Command Sgt. Maj. Rob Abernethy, Janet Morgan, spouse of 7th Army Training Command Command Sgt. Maj. Mark Morgan, and Dorothy Holmes, spouse of 7th Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy Command Sgt. Maj. James Holmes III.
The tour was led in part by USAG Bavaria Deputy Commander Howard Johnston, Kathy Norrie, spouse of 7th Army Training Command commander Brig. Gen. Christopher Norrie, and Kristen Danbeck, spouse of USAG Bavaria commander Col. Christopher Danbeck. Program directors emphasized the dedication of their teams and organizational services throughout the visit.
8 HOHENFELS, Germany The U.S. Army Health Clinic Hohenfels conducted its first inoculations of healthcare workers and first responders with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 31, 2020.
The arrival of the Moderna vaccine paves the way for a phased vaccine distribution plan to protect our military communities overseas against COVID-19.
Initial vaccinations will be limited to healthcare workers and first responders to assess the process and will be used to plan expanded distribution, where each service will request and administer the vaccine through a Defense Department-wide phased vaccination approach.
“This vaccine is a game changer,” said Col. E. Lee Bryan, commander of U.S. Army Medical Department Activity Bavaria. “The entire world rose to the challenge to produce the vaccine and get it into the emergency use authorization and the more folks we get vaccinated the more people who won’t be at risk for COVID-19.”
By JENNIFER H. SVAN | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 28, 2020
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. Frontline medical workers at three Army bases in Bavaria became the first in the U.S. military community in Europe to be vaccinated against the coronavirus Monday, officials said. Military and civilian health care providers and first responders who work at clinics on Ansbach, Grafenwoehr and Vilseck received a first dose of the Moderna vaccine, developed by a Massachusetts biotech firm and awarded emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 18.