Meet the Drumchapel pensioners and staff who received the Covid-19 vaccine A SOON to be first-time Drumchapel granny is among those to share her joy at getting her first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Mhari Baumer, from Drumchapel, says the vaccine is a significant step to ending a “bad dream” in time for her family’s “June blessing”. The 67-year-old received her jab in the Drumchapel Donald Dewar Community Centre earlier this week as Scotland passed the one million first doses mark. She is one of a number of pensioners to speak out as we feature the people at the heart of the vaccination programme.
Austin s four nominees to the commission, announced by the Pentagon on Friday, include retired Adm. Michelle Howard, the former vice chief of naval operations and the highest-ranking woman and African American in the Navy s history. She is joined by retired Gen. Robert Neller, former Marine Corps commandant; Dr. Kori Schake, a widely respected military scholar and director of Foreign & Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute; and retired Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule, the professor emeritus of history at the American Enterprise Institute.
Howard, who was previously named to President Joe Biden s defense transition team, served in the Navy from 1982 to 2017 and was commander of United States Naval Forces Europe before becoming VCNO in 2014. Neller, who served as head of Marine Corps Forces Command before becoming commandant in 2015, wrote a lengthy open letter to America urging racial reckoning in the wake of George Floyd s death last June.
Retired Marine general, trailblazing Navy admiral among those to scrutinize bases with Confederate names
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Feb. 12, 2021
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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Friday that he has selected four people, including a former Marine Corps commandant and a retired four-star Navy admiral, to join a congressionally mandated commission that will consider how to rename U.S. military installations that recognize Confederate military officers.
Mhari Baumer, 67, Drumchapel “I’m a hairdresser, so these past few months have been difficult. That’s the reason I’m getting the vaccine – to get back to work. “Well, not the only one – my first grandchild is due in June. It’s been a wonderful blessing as my daughter is 41, and I’m just paying life is getting back to normal by then. “Right now, it feels like I’ve been in a bad dream and I keep hoping I’ll wake up. Maybe this vaccine will be the end of it. If it hadn’t been for my two dogs, Teo and Sassy, I’m not sure what I’d have done.
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