The Army CO announced they were "infection free" for a six mile perimeter during his speech.
“The Army CO announced they were “infection free” for a six mile perimeter during his speech.”
A perimeter of 6 miles is less than a 2 mile diameter if the area is circular. IIRC there weren’t a large number of areas.
Not that I know anything about it, but...
My guess is that the CO is a petty tyrant, that is using his forces to sweep and scavenge everything locally. That's where the "weekly supplies" are coming from. Also would explain all of the dead bodies - we're assuming that the "ones with guns" were shooting at Zombies. Not necessarily.
First step is to eliminate all the people who might be inordinate drains on resources - medicine especially. "I'm a doctor and I'm here to help!! Show me who's hurt!". Yeah, right. Also might be that there's not much for medical supplies. When Mom stops getting help.... people who love her start getting agitated. Which leads me to step #2...
Second step will be to eliminate the malcontents (we're not there yet).
Final step will be to cut and run once the zombies show up, or all of the local resources are drained. Wouldn't surprise me to see everyone wake up one morning and have the "safe zone" completely devoid of troops. "Where did everyone go? What's happening? etc.
FWIW, Rick, Glenn, Carol, etc would steamroll the people in the "safe zone". Troops and all. Would be like Godzilla vs Bambi.