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SECDEF Issues Global Travel Restrictions to Help Stop Coronavirus Spread

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Thu, 03/12/2020 - 12:41am

SECDEF Issues Global Travel Restrictions to Help Stop Coronavirus Spread by Leo Shane III and Howard Altman – Military Times

Pentagon officials announced significant restrictions on service member and family travel worldwide amid a series of new White House initiatives released Wednesday to try and curb the spread of the coronavirus throughout the United States.

Effective Friday, all troops, military civilian employees and family members traveling to or from locations with widespread transmission of the illness, designated “Warning Level 3” (which at the moment include Italy, South Korea and China) will “stop movement” for the next 60 days, per a memo signed by Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

In addition, travel to locations with “sustained transmission” designated “Warning Level 2” — which at the moment includes Japan, Bahrain and the United Kingdom — will be prohibited for family members of troops and civilian personnel for two months. Non-essential civilian hiring for military vacancies will also be postponed…

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EricCartman

Tue, 01/17/2023 - 8:29am

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In time, all restrictions will be removed completely. Right now, they are partially lifted. Many people have already started traveling. I, too, am going on my first trip after such a long break. This will be my first trip with my dog, since I simply have no one to leave him with. Now I am actively engaged in what I am trying to book resorts that allow dogs, as now a very large influx of vacationers who, like me, were waiting for some kind of removal of certain restrictions. So hopefully you and I will have a good vacation. 

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