As COVID-19 sweeps across the South, the Army finds it’s not immune

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is facing a significant COVID-19 challenge as infection rates soar across the South and Southeast, where most of the service’s installations are located. And now the disease is having a major impact on the Army’s second-largest installation, according to a briefing obtained by Yahoo News.

Lt. Col. Charles Barrett, a spokesman for the 101st, which has almost 20,000 soldiers and is one of the Army’s most storied formations, said the division is seeing “a slow, steady increase” in cases, but was faring better than the communities around Fort Campbell. Winski said that such guidance is not division policy, but vowed to investigate it. “For the folks reaching out to you and others, that’s what they’re hearing, and we need to address that,” he said, adding that he tended to believe that “where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

Winski, the division commander, attributed many of the complaints to “misunderstanding,” but acknowledged that there might be a kernel of truth to some of them. “Anytime there’s a groundswell of concern, there’s probably something to it,” he said. With most Army units no longer deploying regularly to combat zones, a training center rotation is often the most critical event in a company, battalion or brigade commander’s one- to two-year command tour, and is preceded by many weeks of field training at the brigade combat team’s home post.

However, he said that his chain of command was not pressuring soldiers to not seek medical attention if they were feeling sick. “In the brigade, they want you to get tested,” he said.

rodimusprime What's with this fear of higher numbers? Like just 'not counting' or 'not testing' will just make it disappear? Why not try to get a f*cking handle on it by knowing exactly wtf you're dealing with instead just out of sight, out of mind as a damn plan?🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

Uh. I'm pretty sure our Military Personnel have known they're not immune. I'm hoping they do, and did, that is. This is like any virus. ANYONE CAN GET IT!

Time to Give ALL of them the Hydroxy!!!

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