At the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, I was the Officer in Charge (OIC) of the 807th Medical Command (Deployment Support) Crisis Action Team (CAT) that built surge capabilities and tracked issues affecting the medical response. After two weeks of operations at Fort Douglas, Utah, I was deployed to Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) as the G3 for the 807th MEDCOM assigned to ARNORTH to lead the theater medical mission command for Operation Kill the Virus. After establishing base operations at JBSA, I was sent with BG W. Scott Lynn (DDE ‘14) to New York City supporting his role as the Senior Medical Advisor to Task Force Northeast, which is at the epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis. During this time, 14 Urban Augmentee Medical Task Forces (UAMTFs), 500 augmentees from the Air Force and Navy, and a medical brigade with two hospital centers were deployed to support Alternate Care Facilities like the Javits New York Medical System or integrated into civilian hospitals. This operation has been a joint, interagency, and intergovernmental mission that has brought life-saving health care to affected areas.
LTC Scott C. Valley
Resident Class of 2019
807th Medical Command
