Frustration grows at US military bases overseas over slow pace of vaccine rollout

Many members of the American military and their family members stationed outside the US are growing increasingly frustrated at the pace of the coronavirus vaccine rollout on overseas bases which is lagging behind the continental US.

Military families based in Europe are fully reliant on military health clinics at their bases to receive vaccines. They are not able to receive doses in the countries they are living in, and European Union countries are behind the US in the number of vaccines distributed to their citizens at this point.
"We're a bit stranded over here," Emily Starbuck Gerson, a military spouse based at Royal Air Force Lakenheath Air Force Base in England, said. "The UK and Europe has been much stricter in how they handled COVID, so a lot of us has been under these onerous lockdowns ... we're already so far from our support system and loved ones and navigating a global pandemic while living abroad ... so then not being able to access a vaccine on top of that is difficult."
Defense Health Agency Director Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Place said that the Department of Defense will open vaccine appointments to "all tiers" on April 19, which is consistent when President Joe Biden has said all adult Americans will be eligible to be vaccinated.