JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas – The Office of the Command Surgeon squad of U.S. Army North, received the quarterly Army Medicine Wolf Pack Award successful the historical Fort Sam Houston Quadrangle, October 5, 2022.
The Wolf Pack Award recognizes exceptional teamwork by an integrated radical of subject and civilian squad members who absorption connected excellence and superior outcomes successful enactment of Army medicine.
“As the recently appointed chief, this is my archetypal Wolf Pack Award to present,” said Chris Rheney, the main of Army Medical Department Civilian Corps. “The interaction [U.S. Army North’s Office of the Command Surgeon team] had for not conscionable nationalist interests, but for the Afghan guests that sought refuge successful the U.S.”
The OSCURG squad is an integrated squad of multi constituent subject and civilian members. During signifier 2 of Operations Allies Welcome, the OCSURG unit planned, implemented, and acceptable conditions for ngo occurrence to present contracted broad wellness attraction to implicit 3,200 Afghan guests successful the National Convention Center, Leesburg, Virginia.
The OAW Phase II’s national-level accomplishment is built upon the instauration of exceptional wellness attraction provided during Phase I of OAR/OAW successful which, the squad operationally directed enactment of implicit 73,000 Afghan guests receiving, often-times, their archetypal aesculapian introspection and nationalist wellness immunization series. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention formulary administered astir 500,000 vaccines.
While managing simultaneous large-scale wellness work enactment operations during this period, the U.S. Army North OCSURG unit continued its astir two-year ngo to oversee national COVID-19 effect crossed the United States and its U.S. territories.
The OCSURG unit vertically and horizontally synchronized crossed interagency and associated services to find innovative ways to tailor section of defence infirmary augmentation teams to conscionable the needs of the American radical and backstage assemblage infirmary systems facing strains of COVID-19. This was important arsenic the squad balanced statesmanlike home priorities against planetary conflict/tension requirements successful an operational situation with scarce resources. This oversight resulted successful the culmination of a palmy no-fail and protracted ngo to prevention the lives of thousands of Americans successful implicit 63 civilian hospitals crossed the nation.
The utmost dedication to work of the OCSURG staff, successful its Defense Support to Civil Authorities role, developed the HSS program successful enactment of interagency all-hazards response. This prepared the bid for abrupt DSCA responses, to see the aesculapian enactment program for the 2022 hurricane play and the upcoming wildland firefighting play with National Interagency Fire Center.
Lt. Gen. R. Scott Dingle, the U.S. Army Surgeon General, praised the OCSURG team’s exceptional effort, teamwork and dedication that epitomize the highest standards of the Army and Army Medicine.
“You person my stone stars connected your staff,” Dingle noted to Col. Phillip Gage, the Chief of Staff for U.S. Army North. He continued to remark connected the simultaneity of operations that included COVID-19 response, OAR/OAW and the Southwest Border mission.
Col. Raymond Jablonka, the bid surgeon for U.S. Army North, accepted the award, thanking the full OCSURG squad for their exceptional work to U.S. Army North, Army Medicine, and the nation.
“It’s an grant and a privilege to service with this OCSURG team, some military-civilian and multi-compo – each of whom we needed to marque our divers and unprecedented aesculapian operations a success,” said Jablonka. “I admit astir that this squad possessed the requisite agility and innovation to triumph the combat against COVID-19 and service 73,000 Afghan refugees successful their clip of need. Thank you.”
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