USO’s online programs prove popular with troops during coronavirus lockdowns
“I think we are busier now than before the pandemic,” Yokota USO manager Mardie Marqueze-Velasquez said Wednesday. “We can’t reach them physically, but we have great teams across the globe of volunteers and staff.”
Guam’s tourism tide is rising again following ‘complete collapse’ during pandemic
With most travel restrictions eased, the island mask mandate lifted and nearly 85% of its 170,000 population fully vaccinated, Guam is beckoning travelers.
First round of coronavirus vaccinations for US Forces Korea to start within days
Frontline health care workers and first responders will get the Moderna vaccine in the first batch of USFK coronavirus inoculations.
Service members who refused COVID-19 vaccine say they face obstacles despite policy reversal
The action doesn’t address damage to military careers or restore the faith of service members sidelined by their refusal to take the vaccine.
‘It feels good:’ Coronavirus vaccinations under way at US bases in Japan
Troops in Japan are getting the first wave of inoculations of the Moderna vaccine against the coronavirus.
Marine in Japan who refused COVID-19 vaccine is in brig facing new allegations
A Marine lance corporal in Japan who refused the COVID-19 vaccine has for a third time failed to board a U.S.-bound flight, this time to begin an administrative discharge based on new allegations, a Marine Corps spokesman said.
Far East drama festival returns to Pacific schools after four-year COVID absence
The Far East Drama festival, which DODEA-Pacific has sponsored since the mid-1980s, returned for its first in-person incarnation on Monday, after it was canceled in 2020 and done virtually the past two years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.