. (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.