The military is playing an important part in the battle against the coronavirus. Trump says the US is 'at war' with the coronavirus — here's what the military is bringing to the fight. (Business Insider, 3/18/20)
The US military is increasingly being mobilized to support ongoing response efforts to the coronavirus, which is rapidly spreading across the US…
...Supporting domestic quarantine operations...Researching a coronavirus vaccine...sending in the National Guard...Freeing up respirator masks from its strategic stockpiles...Mobilizing hospital ships...Preparing field and expeditionary hospitals...Setting up certified coronavirus testing labs...transporting critical supplies...
But, like civilians, service members are also vulnerable to COVID-19.
The military has suspended all travel, deployments, exercises for the entire force (Military times, 3/26/20)
...the Pentagon has issued a stop-movement order that will affect all personnel and Defense Department civilians.
The order affects travel for exercises, as well as deployments from combat operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, in an attempt to stop the spread of coronavirus, the Pentagon announced Wednesday
“Approximately 90,000 service members slated to deploy or redeploy over the next 60 days will likely be impacted by this stop movement order,” the release said...
35 more sailors test positive Thursday for Covid-19 (Navy Times 3/27/20)
As the military grinds to a halt in a dire attempt to stem the spread of coronavirus, the Navy announced that on Thursday, 35 additional sailors and Navy civilians tested positive for COVID-19.
The single-day spike comes as the service temporarily sidelined aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt following a surge of positive cases aboard the underway, 5,000-person ship. The Roosevelt made a scheduled port visit to Da Nang, Vietnam approximately two weeks before the first cases surfaced.
In response, the Navy has ordered the Roosevelt to port in Guam in order to test the entire crew…
...Meanwhile, as the number of positive cases continues to rise, the geographical spread of the virus throughout the Navy’s ranks is also undeniable.
Today’s announcement concerning positive cases throughout the fleet were broken down by the following locations. (Ships and commands were not identified...)
Yet, Trump continues to procrastinate, obfuscate, and, outright lie and obstruct a serious federalized responses to the pandemic, leaving this country and its people: Civilian, and military in clear and present danger.