Posted on 10/06/2020 6:52:30 PM PDT by usafa92
Several senior military officials, including Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. and Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, are quarantining at home after a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff tested positive for the coronavirus on Oct. 5.
Coast Guard Vice Commandant Adm. Charles Ray was tested “after feeling mild symptoms over the weekend,” the service said. He will quarantine at home as well.
“The Coast Guard is following established policies for COVID, per [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] guidelines, to include quarantine and contact tracing,” according to an Oct. 6 Coast Guard release. “Any Coast Guard personnel that were in close contact will also quarantine.”
Ray attended high-level meetings at the Pentagon last week with other senior leaders, who are now staying home to avoid potentially spreading the deadly virus.
In addition to Brown and Raymond, those in quarantine include Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley, Vice Chairman Gen. John E. Hyten, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael M. Gilday, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James C. McConville, National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, U.S. Cyber Command boss Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, and Marine Corps Vice Commandant Gen. Gary L. Thomas.
None of the officials have returned positive tests so far, according to a senior Defense Department official. Politico reported Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz has been traveling and has not come into contact with Ray.
“Out of an abundance of caution, all potential contacts from these meetings are self-quarantining and have been tested this morning,” Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Rath Hoffman said in a release. “No Pentagon contacts have exhibited symptoms and we have no additional positive tests to report at this time.”
An Air Force official said Brown and Raymond are remotely participating in the Department of the Air Force’s fall “Corona” meeting, which gathers the service’s top leaders each year to discuss and set major organizational and policy shifts.
This latest coronavirus scare in the federal government comes days after President Donald J. Trump and several members of the White House staff contracted the virus, prompting Brown, Raymond, and Air Force Secretary Barbara M. Barrett to repeatedly test for COVID-19 after participating in a Sept. 27 ceremony at the White House for Gold Star families.
A Coast Guard official told the Washington Post that Ray has not been at the White House since attending the Gold Star event.
The quarantines have not spurred any changes to operational readiness or mission capability, Hoffman added.
“Senior military leaders are able to remain fully mission-capable and perform their duties from an alternative work location,” he said.
They’ll be fine.
If they’re this scared of a virus bug,how are they going to react when the shooting starts?
Let’s tell all the world that our military leaders are Covid positive.
That’s really smart.
Going to black secure sites.
I don’t think they’re scared. I think the media is using them to keep THE FEAR going.
There seems to be a DemonRat-politician-and-RAT-MEDIA conspiracy to keep a LID on any cases of Covid among DEMONRAT politicians.
If Jerry 'SHART' Nadler were on a respirator right now due to Covid, would we even know it?
I don’t think they are scared per say but they force you out of commission for weeks.
I am wondering if these tests are not bad on purpose. I read an article about this very thing a while back but I don’t remember where I read it.
Thank God this bunch wasn’t in charge when we were fighting real wars.
Republicans have been very straightforward about their exposure.
As someone here pointed out to me today, there likely have been just as many Democrats who contracted the virus, but they keep it quiet so they can better accuse the Republicans, and only the Republicans, of being “careless.”
“I think the media is using them to keep THE FEAR going.”
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More to portray Trump as a deadly covid super-spreader.
Who leaks this crap?
All because the Coastie had “symptoms”....not...one...positive...test...the greatest military in the world.
Big bad tough battle hardened generals, quarantined! What a laugh.
Big bad tough battle hardened generals, quarantined! What a laugh.
Yep....for a bug that has a 94% survival rate.
How embarrassing!!
Yeah, that’s the new one. But there’s a new one every day. COVID-19 is becoming an industry. I’m just guessing all the major media outlets will tomorrow be promoting a new, “fail-proof” mask made by a “brilliant, new company” that, if you follow all the links down the rabbit hole for days, you’ll find is a front for the DNC, which collects all proceeds.
The marriage of sellout Big Media with one, and only one, massively corrupt political party is simply evil on a scale we’ve never encountered.
What I don’t understand is why everybody seems to feel the need to issue a press release or go on television to announce that they are COVID positive. Our personal health information is confidential. It doesn’t need to be released publicly at all.
Reality check.
COVID-19 is airborne.
That means, “in the air, everywhere”.
It is ENDEMIC.
We will ALL get exposed..over and over.
MANY of us will “test positive”, mostly without symptoms.
SOME of us will be “symptomatic”, and a subset will be really sick.
And (unfortunately) a FEW of us will die.
This is NOT the Bubonic plague.
This is NOT the Spanish Influenza.
Tear off that face diaper.
Breathe deeply. Inhale some COVID.
Build up your immune system.
And LIVE!
The patient always has the right to break confidentiality.
The penitent always has the right to break the Seal of the Confessional.
The President should order them back to work
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