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Navy Stops Sending New Recruits to Army Training Base Used During Pandemic Recruits line up after arriving on board Fort McCoy, a U.S. Army training center in western Wisconsin, on Aug. 25, 2020. Recruit Training Command (RTC), Great Lakes, Ill., is working with the Army at Fort McCoy to establish a restriction of movement (ROM) site for Navy recruits before entering boot camp. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nikita Custer/U.S. Navy) 20 Apr 2021 Navy recruits will no longer spend weeks...

Navy ends Fort McCoy stop before boot camp, cuts ROM for fully vaccinated recruits 3 hours ago Recruits dress off in formation on the USS Chicago recruit barracks grinder on April 11, 2020, at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill. (MC1 Camilo Fernan/Navy) The Navy is nixing a 14-day restriction of movement (ROM) for fully vaccinated recruits ahead of boot camp at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois. The service is also ending its use of Fort McCoy to isolate newly ar...

Lawmakers Are Worried COVID-19 Did Long-Term Damage to Military Training Recruits execute drill movements during Final Drill aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island S.C., April 7, 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Samuel C. Fletcher) 12 Apr 2021 Editors Note: This is the second in a series of reports on the lasting impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. military. Military efforts to halt the spread of the COVID-19 have now been cited in at least two investigations into fat...

Letters: Tourism, self-control, Steve Braunias, borders and conversion therapy 16 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM 8 minutes to read International tourism will never again be as it was, says Tourism Minister Stuart Nash. Photo / Supplied, File NZ Herald Lost tourism While Minister Stuart Nashs comments about the future of tourism in New Zealand may seem overly harsh, he is right in saying that tourism will not return to what it has been. Visitors from Australia will probably be about the same leve...

Submarine petty officer who died of COVID complications identified February 6 A sailor assigned to the blue crew of the ballistic missile submarine Tennessee died Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, of COVID-related complications, the Navy said. (Navy) The U.S. Navy identified a submarine petty officer who died of COVID Thursday as Information Systems Technician (Submarines) 2nd Class Cody Andrew-Godfredson Myers. The 26-year-old Washington native was assigned to the blue crew of the Georgia-based ba...

Chief Quartermaster Herbert Rojas died, Feb. 2, due to complications associated with COVID-19. (U.S. Navy) 5 Feb 2021 Two sailors died of the illness caused by the coronavirus this week, bringing the total number of U.S. troops killed by the illness to at least 20. Chief Quartermaster Herbert Rojas, a 50-year-old staff instructor at Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, Illinois, died of COVID-19 on Tuesday. Rojas was quarantining in his off-base residence after testing positive for the virus w...