Mandated sanitizer sharing for AMEDD soldiers

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A new policy forces every Army Medical Department employee active soldier to carry two bottles of hand sanitizer at all times: One for the soldier's own use, and one to share.


Mandated sanitizer sharing for AMEDD soldiers
By Tony Lombardo - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Nov 14, 2009 17:36:14 EST

Need some hand sanitizer? Look no further than the nearest health-services soldier. They’ll share a squirt — or give you the whole bottle — under a new Army policy.

Every Army Medical Department active-duty soldier and Reserve-component soldier on active duty must carry at all times two bottles of sanitizer: one for the soldier’s use and the second to share.

The new policy, announced in an All-Army Activities Message, is aimed squarely at the H1N1 flu virus.

“We’re trying to do anything we can to reduce or prevent the spread of the infection,” said Col. Scott Stanek, the deputy functional proponent for preventive medicine with the Office of the Army Surgeon General.

The new policy will affect about 60,000 AMEDD soldiers, said Col. Edmund Haraguchi, director of logistics for the Office of the Army Surgeon General.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/11/army_sanitizer_111409w/