For the past four months, 10 Soldiers with the 153 Medical Detachment (Blood Support) – the Wolfpack – at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, have been deployed to the FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies [FDBT] facility to provide quality control support to COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing efforts.

”We’ve always had officers who train with industry for four to six months,” said Army Maj. Gen. Chris Sharpsten, deputy director of supply, production and distribution for the Vaccines and Therapeutics Operation under the federal COVID-19 response, formerly known as Operation Warp Speed. ”But it’s a single officer who goes to work with an industry related to their branch, and they take the expertise they gain from the industry and bring it back to the services.”

This effort, he said, was different.

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