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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCENTCOM cancels all leave; USN orders ships to remain at sea for 14 days if recent port visits
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Ryan Browne ✔@rabrowne75
.@CENTCOM-"US Central Command is taking multiple prudent measures to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 Coronavirus & to mitigate the operational risk such transmission would pose. One of those steps is to suspend leave & liberty for US service members within the @CENTCOM area"
Ryan Browne ✔@rabrowne75
The @USNavy has ordered all its vessels in the Pacific that have visited "countries with moderate or greater risk" of the Coronavirus "to remain at sea for at least 14 days before pulling into another port in order to monitor Sailors for any symptoms of the virus"
4:35 PM - Feb 27, 2020
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Ryan Browne ✔@rabrowne75
Update: A Navy spokesman tells me the instruction to self-quarantine for 14 days applies to all ships that have visited ALL countries in the Pacific region and not just those that have visited countries with moderate or greater risk of Coronavirus
4:20 PM - Feb 27, 2020
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CENTCOM cancels all leave; USN orders ships to remain at sea for 14 days if recent port visits (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Feb 2020
OP
Ships have proven they're not the best places to be with a superbug flying about
Dennis Donovan
Feb 2020
#3
And the USN (and the USMC) has a long experiance with dealing with this kind of stuff ...
marble falls
Feb 2020
#5
Yep - just CENTCOM so far though. I'm sure the other commands will follow suit
Dennis Donovan
Feb 2020
#6
marble falls
(57,353 posts)1. USN is taking it seriously.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)3. Ships have proven they're not the best places to be with a superbug flying about
marble falls
(57,353 posts)5. And the USN (and the USMC) has a long experiance with dealing with this kind of stuff ...
if they're taking it seriously in light of the lack of leadership from the WH, its well worth paying attention. We've stocked up food so as to keep in the house as much as possible, JIC.
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dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)4. Is this all branches?
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)6. Yep - just CENTCOM so far though. I'm sure the other commands will follow suit
...if they haven't already. CENTCOM's Twitter account hasn't said anything yet about it, though. https://twitter.com/CENTCOM
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)7. Thank You, so much. I imagine they will quarantine them
first, I don't think they even know yet, considering many of them just went to bed.
Ilsa
(61,707 posts)8. K&R nt
stillcool
(32,626 posts)9. I hope they cleared it with ETTD...
riversedge
(70,347 posts)10. what is ETTD??
stillcool
(32,626 posts)12. everything trump touches dies
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)11. From Military Times
https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2020/02/27/centcom-suspends-leave-and-liberty-for-troops-over-coronavirus-fears/
CENTCOM suspends leave and liberty for troops over coronavirus fears
Shawn Snow , Diana Stancy Correll , and Patricia Kime
42 minutes ago
U.S. Central Command said Thursday it was suspending leave and liberty for troops and Defense Department civilian workers to and within its area of responsibility over fears related to the spread of the coronavirus.
U.S. Central Command is taking multiple prudent measures to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 Coronavirus and to mitigate the operational risk such transmission would pose, CENTCOM told Military Times in an emailed statement.
CENTCOM said in a memo obtained by Politico that official travel or leave outside the CENTCOM area of operations was not affected.
CENTCOM suspends leave and liberty for troops over coronavirus fears
Shawn Snow , Diana Stancy Correll , and Patricia Kime
42 minutes ago
U.S. Central Command said Thursday it was suspending leave and liberty for troops and Defense Department civilian workers to and within its area of responsibility over fears related to the spread of the coronavirus.
U.S. Central Command is taking multiple prudent measures to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 Coronavirus and to mitigate the operational risk such transmission would pose, CENTCOM told Military Times in an emailed statement.
CENTCOM said in a memo obtained by Politico that official travel or leave outside the CENTCOM area of operations was not affected.
maxrandb
(15,364 posts)13. I was on a WESTPAC during the SARS outbreak
We cancelled so many of our scheduled port visits that we ended up pulling into the base at Guam 7 times instead.
When we finally got approval to visit Singapore, we had to go through a tunnel that took our temperatures as we passed.