I’m sorry, but if anyone believes anything to do with the virus and its vaccine is “ the most complex military operations this country has ever conducted” they need to crack a history book sometime.
It could be both (1) logistics & distribution of the vaccine, and (2) something we aren’t yet privy to.
The wording was kind of ambiguous. Maybe deliberately?
Hospital ships, distribution of PPP, ramping up ventilator production. The military has a huge supply network. What they did was incredible.
As if the VP and not the Commander in Chief would be leading something other than the military distribution of a vaccine.
The complicated part is to distribute throughout the country and world a vaccine with ultra cold storage requirements. No one had ever done that.
This IS about the vaccine distribution.
NOT saying it's a sane statement or comparison...but...straight from the horses mouth:
The blueprint for the national strategy is represented in a dozen maps and charts Scotch-taped to the walls of a seventh-floor office in downtown Washington, D.C., where General Gustave Perna and his team leading the government vaccine effort have devised the logistics operation that they hope will change the trajectory of American history. In an interview with TIME this week before FDA authorization, Perna compared vaccine delivery day to the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II, an event more commonly known as “D-Day.” He uses the same term when discussing plans for the day Pfizer will begin delivering America’s first shipment of vaccines. “This is a game changer,” he says. “Not to dramatize the situation we’re in, but we’re at war with this virus. And the vaccine is the beginning of the end.”The countdown to Perna’s personal D-Day began in May when he was put in charge of logistics for the federal vaccine program, dubbed Operation Warp Speed (OWS), an unlikely collaborative effort led by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense to develop, manufacture and deliver COVID vaccines to Americans. The four-star Army general was tapped because of his 39 years of service as a logistics officer, most recently as commander of U.S. Army Materiel Command which oversees the branch’s global supply chain.