The National Guard is shipping doses of Novavax’s newly approved COVID-19 vaccine out to units in hopes it will help shrink the number of unvaccinated Guardsmen who face expulsion.
A five-day clock begins once a vaccination exemption request or appeal is denied. Airmen who have still not received a first shot after that window are subject to discharge.
Navy aircraft carriers in the Pacific and Indian oceans, Air Force and Marine aircraft support Operation Octave Quartz, the military continues receiving the COVID-19 vaccine and more in this week's Frontline Photos.
The United States Forces Korea says in a statement it started inoculating military and civilian health-care workers, first responders and the USFK command team with the Moderna vaccine on Tuesday.