US Army quarantines members of survival training course after one tests positive for coronavirus

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The US Army said that it has quarantined 90 students and personnel with its Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape course at Fort Bragg in North Carolina after an individual in the course tested positive for coronavirus

The course trains military personnel in survival skills that include evading capture as well as other methods and techniques in order to escape from captivity if captured behind enemy lines."The health and wellness of our students and staff is our top priority," said Maj. Gen. Patrick Roberson, commanding general of the US Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg and commandant of the school, in a statement Tuesday.

Read MoreCNN previously reported that, according to an internal directive from March, the Army said mitigation efforts to blunt the spread of the coronavirus had"proven insufficient" within the service and that it was suspending"non-mission essential functions," including some noncritical training of units in the field and physical fitness training involving large numbers of troops.

 

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Couldn't Evade, Resist, or Escape COVID-19....wonder if they will be able to Survive it?🤔

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