DOD Expands Medical Support in New York City, New Orleans and Dallas

DOD Expands Medical Support in New York City, New Orleans and Dallas

April 3 2020

https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2135771/dod-expands-medical-support-in-new-york-city-new-orleans-and-dallas/

At the request of FEMA, the Department of Defense will expand its medical support to include COVID-19 positive patients at the Javits Federal Medical Station (FMS) in New York City, the Morial FMS in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Kay Bailey Hutchinson FMS in Dallas, Texas.

These three DoD-supported locations will now provide support to COVID-19 positive patients in convalescent care, as well as low-acuity patients. These patients, who require a lower level of medical care, must first be screened at a local hospital.

Additionally, screening for care on the USNS Comfort will be modified and will now occur pier-side in an effort to reduce the backlog at some of the nearby New York hospitals. The screening effort for the USNS Comfort will no longer require a negative test, but each patient will still be screened by temperature and a short questionnaire.

This assistance will further unburden the local hospital and ambulance systems in these areas, allowing them to focus on the more serious COVID-19 cases. We will immediately implement this action and work with local officials in each area on the details of patient arrival.

We understand that introducing COVID-19 positive patients into the FMS environments elevates the risk of transmission to other patients and our medical providers. This decision was risk-informed and made to ensure that DoD can continue to provide these local communities the type of medical care they most need. Force health protection is a top priority and our medical professionals will have the required personal protective equipment needed for this mission.

Military Commissions Media Invitation Announced for United States v. Khalid Shaikh Mohammad et al.

Last week Col. Cohen retired as presiding military judge, now media invitation is announced for the military tribunal on trial since 2006.

Military Commissions Media Invitation Announced for United States v. Khalid Shaikh Mohammad et al.

April 3 2020

https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Advisories/Advisory/Article/2136337/military-commissions-media-invitation-announced-for-united-states-v-khalid-shai/

The Department of Defense and the Office of Military Commissions will allocate seats for news media aboard military-chartered aircraft for travel to and from Joint Base Andrews to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB) to cover Military Commission pre-trial proceedings scheduled for United States v. Khalid Shaikh Mohammad et al., June 1-12.

Reporters are not required to stay for the entire duration of scheduled hearings. Flights between NSGB and Joint Base Andrews will be available the following Saturdays:

May 30 – Joint Base Andrews to NSGB

June 6 – both to and from NSGB

June 12 – NSGB to Joint Base Andrews

Media desiring to view this hearing from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay must complete the registration form. All requests must be received no later than noon EDT, Friday, April. 10. Multiple requesters from the same organization must register separately via the form.

Due to a limited number of seats aboard the flight and limited accommodations at Guantanamo Bay, selection is not guaranteed. Additional viewing is available for media members via Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) from a media work center at Fort George G. Meade, Md.

Media desiring to view this hearing from Fort Meade, must send their requests via email to osd.mc-alex.OMC.mbx.omc-pa@mail.mil with the following information.

Subject: Case Name and Date

Individual's full name

Individual's position

Sponsoring organization

Contact information (cell phone and email)

NOTE 1: There are no tours of detention camps scheduled during military commissions. Requests for reporting on Guantanamo topics not related to the military commissions must be coordinated through OSD Public Affairs and the Joint Task Force Guantanamo public affairs office. The primary purpose of travel to Guantanamo Bay is courtroom reporting.

NOTE 2: All media must ensure their passports and visas (foreign press) are up-to-date and eligible to enter and exit the United States.

Expeditionary Legal Complex – B-roll 2017

Expeditionary Legal Complex – Photos 2014

http://www.dvidshub.net/image/1710409/expeditionary-legal-complex-guantanamo-bay-cuba#.VLAavzZOk-4

Further information including the media ground rules can be viewed at the Office of Military Commissions website at https://www.mc.mil.

article/advisory 2017 video (would not embed):

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/620553/expeditionary-legal-complex-court-room-2-b-roll

>>8674653

(site video showed media seating - B roll)

Expeditionary Legal Complex, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Public Affairs photos from Dec 8 2014

Gitmo Expeditionary 1

This is a long shot of the walkway outside of Expeditionary Legal Complex, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Gitmo Expeditionary 3

This is a wide shot of cells in ELC Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Gitmo Expeditionary 6

This image is taken from inside a courtroom, ELC, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Gitmo Expeditionary 8

This is a wide shot inside a courtroom, ELC, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Gitmo Expeditionary 9

This is a shot from inside a courtroom, ELC, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

>>8675054

11.03.2020 is the standard Day.Month.Year nomenclature used in most countries such Japan. March 11, 2020

Was just looking at Gitmo pics on dvidshub and it used the American style "Dec 08, 2014"

>>8674571

>>8675079

Massachusetts National Guard

Soldiers from the Massachusetts National Guard chat with residents of the Holyoke Soldiers Home in Holyoke, Mass., April 1, 2019. Soldiers from the Mass. National Guard, most of whom are medics or health care providers, are on hand at the long term care facility to augment the staff as they and the residents face an outbreak of COVID-19 cases. (Massachusetts National Guard photo by Army Spc. Samuel D. Keenan)