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8 | MHCE - News www.mhce.us JUNE 2022 EDITION Infectious Disease Expert Takes Charge as Army’s Top Health Officer in Europe LANDSTUHL, Germany — U.S. troops are unlikely to have to endure a repeat of the heavy COVID-19 restrictions they faced during the early days of the pandemic, the Army’s new top health officer in Europe said Wednesday. “The extreme lockdown that we experienced, I don’t think we’ll see that again,” Brig. Gen. Clinton Murray told Stars and Stripes after taking command of Regional Health Command-Europe. The regional command provides medical and dental services to personnel in about 40 countries, including support for troops in U.S. central and Africa commands. Murray took charge of the unit from Brig. Gen. Mark Thompson in a ceremony at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Soldiers stood in close formation before dozens of attendees, all without masks. It contrasted starkly with the welcome Thompson received when he arrived in the spring of 2020, in the early stages of an outbreak that countries the world over struggled for two years to control. In his speech Wednesday, Thompson recalled the challenges of assuming command as the COVID-19 pandemic began raging.
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