My Brigade has overseen the set up and execution of testing sites in the New Orleans area. We have also been the primary military advisors to the Incident Command team establishing the “field hospital” in the New Orleans Morial Convention Center. We also are staffing food banks and providing multiple logistics missions. We have soldiers working all across the state.
Scott J. Desormeaux
Army War College Fellow 2016
COL, IN
256 IBCT, Commanding
The 369th Sustainment Brigade “Harlem Hellfighters” currently has approximately 1000 Soldiers mobilized in New York to support COVID-19 response. My Soldiers were recently featured on the Secretary of Defense’s FB page for their work in setting up patient care units for the hospital that was established at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. Additionally, my Soldiers are conducting warehouse operations at nine different sites throughout the state and distributing PPE, medical supplies and equipment throughout the state. The staff of my military police battalion is providing the nucleus for the Unified Command- Javits staff. Finally, we are augmenting the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner by assisting with the recovery of decedents (all causes) throughout the City of New York and assisting with the processing and storing of remains. I am supported by two current USAWC students in the first year class- LTC Ian Seagriff, commander of the 101st Expeditionary Signal Battalion and LTC Bryon Linnehan, Brigade Support Operations Officer.
Seth L. Morgulas
Distance Class of 2018
COL, AG, NYARNG
Commanding Officer
369th Sustainment Brigade
and TF Operations, C2-CRE-B
I am the Army Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer (EPLO) for South Carolina (SC), the senior ARNORTH officer to South Carolina for the Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) mission. With that, I was activated to work with the SC Emergency Management Department and the SC National Guard in a Title 10 DSCA capacity. I started working this in middle March, and on active orders since the end of March.
COL William M. ‘Bill’ Connor V
Distance Class of 2018
I am currently the Associate Director (Chief Operating Officer) for the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, in Augusta, Georgia. As such, I am the Incident Commander for the COVID-19 epidemic for our Hospital. I work in conjunction with our Network Office (which oversees a total of 8 Medical Centers in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina). My son, who is a Medical Service Corps Officer at Eisenhower Army Medical Center (also in Augusta), is part of that hospital’s Incident Command Team.
COL (Ret) Robert F. Reeder, FACHE, MS
Distance Class of 2007
I’m the Medical Group Commander at the 190th Air Refueling Wing, Forbes Field ANG Base, Topeka, Kansas. As a traditional Guardsman/Commander, I’ve been engaged in the fight from early March. Even though I live in Oregon and commute to Kansas for drill, I’ve been tele-commuting for the past month: coordinating medical response and distro of the strategic national stockpile with the Kansas Department of Emergency Management and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Additionally, we’ve put multiple Airmen into the fray. Just one small cog in the organizational wheel that will eventually beat this thing.
Col William F. Hefner, O.D., M.Ed., M.S.S., F.A.A.O
Air National Guard
Distance Class of 2011, Seminar 1
I have been appointed by the United Nations to the COVID-19 Field Support Response Coordination Group tasked with management of UN response to the pandemic. My specific responsibility is to provide best military advice on COVID-19 policy, such as the rotation and continued operations of 100,000 uniformed personnel (including military hospitals). This encompasses 22 separate missions around the world as nations attempt to cope with this worldwide threat.
MG Hugh C. Van Roosen II
Resident Class of 2009
Deputy Military Advisor, Office of Military Affairs
Department of Peace Operations, United Nations
New York, NY
