17 December 2020 Navy COVID-19 Vaccination Policy, Reserve Force Guidance The Navy issued COVID-19 vaccine guidance to combat the coronavirus pandemic with NAVADMIN 327/20 Dec. 16. ...
03 November 2020 Recruiting Reinforcements: Navy Reservists provide critical support to Navy Recruiting Command keeping new accessions on track during COVID-19 Dozens of Navy Reserve Sailors mobilized to keep the Navy’s accessions pipeline open and operational during COVID-19. The accessions pipeline controls personnel flow, which includes new Sailor production. However, with recruiters across the nation having to telework due to childcare difficulties,...
03 August 2020 The Night Shift It was late on April 2, when the deputy chief of staff, Naval Medical Forces Atlantic contacted Navy Reserve Operational Health Support Unit Portsmouth with a request for nurses and doctors willing to support the COVID-19 response efforts in New York City. The request started a cascade of events...
14 May 2020 IRR Sailors Serve at Navy Medical Center Portsmouth Senior leadership across the Navy Reserve Force and Bureau of Medicine and Surgery used the current COVID-19 climate to prove the feasibility and expedience of activating Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) Sailors to Navy Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) in direct response to special authorities granted...
05 May 2020 VP-62 Broadarrows mobilize to 7th Fleet for fourth time amid COVID-19 Navy Reserve Patrol Squadron 62 “Broadarrows” on deployment to Commander, 7th Fleet area of operations assumed command of Task Group 72.8, April 8, marking the Reserve unit’s fourth partial mobilization to the region in the past seven years...