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CURRENT ISSUE
Reviews are given of Fire Support: Train the Force and Opera-
tion Atlantic Resolve Lessons Learned: The 1st Infantry Division
in Europe 2017–2020 (CAC login required), as well as reviews
of CALL publications “News From the Front: The Medical
Readiness and Training Command: Analyzing the Response to
a Global Pandemic,” “Saber Junction 19 After Action Report:
Joint Multinational Readiness Center Rotation 19-10 (CAC
login required),” and “News From the CTC: Intelligence After
Action Review Trends at the National Training Center.”
In addition, there are news and resources from US Army South,
the National Training Center, the Joint Readiness Training
Center, and the Joint Multinational Readiness Center.**

OPERATION PAPERBACK
SUPPORTS SERVICEMEMBERS
Operation Paperback is a national, nonprofit organization
whose volunteers collect gently used books and send them to
American troops overseas, as well as veterans and military
families here at home. Since 1999, they have shipped more
than 2.9 million books to countries all over the world.
Special Projects
In addition to overseas locations, Operation Paperback pro-
vides books to wounded warrior programs and veterans hos-
pitals located within the United States, as well as USO centers
at US Airport transit points. In addition, past projects include:
ARMY ROLLS OUT ARMY GREEN UNIFORM
WEAR GUIDELINES, RENAMES COMBAT PATCH • Providing books from military Professional Reading
On 27 January 2021 in Military.com, Matthew Cox reports Lists to support servicemember professional develop-
that “The US Army on Tuesday rolled out a long-awaited up- ment goals.
date to its uniform wear guidelines, including the World War • Supporting Chaplains as they counsel troops, both be-
II–style Army Green Service Uniform and a new name for the fore redeployment and after reunification, with a variety
combat patch. of specifically-requested titles.
• Supplying books for the annual book giveaway at NSA
The revised AR 670-1, which was last updated in 2017, will Souda Bay in Crete, Greece, for Servicemembers and
not be made official for another 30 days to allow Soldiers and their families.
leaders to become familiar with the policy. • Supplying children's books to deployed Soldiers who
read to their children via webcam or on DVDs.
“‘It’s been almost five years since we made an update, so it
was definitely time. There [have] been a lot of changes; we For more information, please go to https://operationpaperback
have . . . added new uniforms,’ Sgt Maj Brian Sanders, Army .org/
G-1, Uniform Policy Branch sergeant major, told reporters at
a roundtable.” JSOM PODCASTS
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“Soldiers have been acquiring and wearing the Army Green jsom.us/Podcast
Service Uniform, or AGSU, since senior leaders approved it
for everyday wear in late 2018, as a replacement for the blue
Army Service Uniform, or ASU.”
More details are available at https://www.military.com/daily
-news/2021/01/27/army-rolls-out-army-green-uniform-wear
-guidelines-renames-combat-patch.html
**Complete information on both Servicemembers refusing to take the vaccine and on the CDC’s full report is available from https://www
.military.com/daily-news/2021/02/17/almost-one-third-of-us-troops-are-refusing-covid-vaccines-officials-say.html and https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr
/volumes/70/wr/mm7008e3.htm?s_cid=mm7008e3_e&ACSTrackingID=USCDC_921-DM50013&ACSTrackingLabel=MMWR%20Early%20
Release%20-%20Vol.%2070%2C%20February%2019%2C%202021&deliveryName=USCDC_921-DM50013
From https://usacac.army.mil/sites/default/files/publications/CALLInsider_Q1FY21.pdf; CALL Public Website: https://call.army.mil CALL Re-
stricted Website: https://call2.army.mil

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