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FORT BRAGG — The Womack Army Medical Center has had a new chief fitness commander at Fort Bragg in the last month.
Colonel David Zinnante assumed command of the medical center on July 6 replacing the rite of command of Colonel Christopher Jarvis, who retired from the army on July 22.
Zinnante’s recent top Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army Medical Center of ExcellenceU. S. At Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
During his more than 30 years of service in the military, he served as commander of the Fort Sill Medical Department and the Reynolds Army Health Clinic at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Commander of Kirk’s Army Health Clinic at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; Force Health Protection Officer for III Corps at Fort Hood, Texas, and at the head of the 22nd Medical Detachment at Fort Hood Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Zinnante is no stranger to Fort Bragg, having in the past served as director general and preventive medicine officer of the Seventh Special Forces Group’s Operation En Freedom Group in Afghanistan. He also served as Division Assistant Surgeon, Division Environmental Services Officer and Division Preventive Medicine Officer. for the 82nd Airborne Division Operation In Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom and was Director General of Medical Detachment 714 Hurricane Mitch. humanitarian aid in Honduras.
“If you had told me in 2005, 17 years ago, that I would go back to Fort Bragg as commander of Womack, I wouldn’t,” Zinnante said.
Zinnante sees the task as a privilege and an opportunity.
“To the Fort Bragg network, thank you for trusting us for your physical care. All policies and procedures in place,” he said.
He thanked Jarvis for his help in the transition.
Jarvis had been commander of Womack Army Medical Center since July 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Womack, Jarvis said, served as the Defense Department’s largest outlet and delivered more vaccines than any other facility.
During the pandemic, doctors and vaccinators have also been deployed “across the country,” he said.
He said health care providers and infantrymen juggled the pandemic while ensuring force readiness when the 82nd Airborne Division, 18th Airborne Corps and Special Forces infantrymen deployed the withdrawal to Afghanistan last year.
A new medical system, Genesis, was also put in place, and Womack retained its average Level III trauma designation, while expanding to accommodate traumatized civilian patients.
“These two years have been challenging, the Womack team has achieved great achievements,” Jarvis said.
Gen. Mary Krueger, commander of the Atlantic Regional Health Command and Change of Command Review Officer, said Fort Bragg’s forces are in the national defense strategy, from being the last to leave the battlefield in Afghanistan to being the first in Europe when Russia led operations in Ukraine. .
“Womack’s team in this has served in one of the most dynamic public fitness environments in our nation’s history,” Krueger said, thanking Jarvis and his team.
Editor Rachael Riley can be reached at rriley@fayobserver. com or 910-486-3528.
This article was originally published in The Fayetteville Observer: A New Commander Leading Health Care Delivery in Fort Bragg