US military flies its own Covid-19 supplies into Darwin to vaccinate troops

The US military is flying in its own Covid-19 supplies to vaccinate troops operating in Darwin.

Marine Rotational Force – Darwin US navy Hospital Corpsmen open a mobile refrigeration system with Covid-19 vaccines. Picture: Cpl Colton K Garrett

• 1300 US Marines now in the Top End, as Air-Ground Task Force readies for action

THE US military is flying in its own Covid-19 supplies to vaccinate troops operating in Darwin.

Special mobile refrigeration and freezer systems filled with Covid-19 vaccines arrived at Robertson Barracks on the eve of the region’s largest war games, Talisman Sabre.

More than 17,000 troops from Australia and across the world are in Queensland for the large-scale, bilateral military exercise between Australia and the US.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Jay Perezmontanez, a health service support operations chief with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin, carries an AcuTemp AX56L mobile refrigeration and freezer system filled with COVID-19 vaccines. Picture: Cpl Colton K Garrett

The Covid-19 vaccines arrived at RAAF Darwin and were distributed to Larrakeyah and Robertson Barracks medical facilities to vaccinate US service members in Australia’s Top End.

The Marines and sailors of Marine Rotational Force – Darwin, have successfully adhered to all Covid-19 mitigation procedures required by the Australian and US governments to travel to the NT and now fall under protocols set by NT Health authorities.

Several Marines have tested positive for Covid-19, but due to strict quarantine measures the cases have been promptly detected.