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Cadets wear masks as they sit under camouflage netting, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020, in West Point, N.Y.

Pentagon drops new quarantine guidance for COVID-19 exposure, diagnosis

Positive? Close contact? Asymptomatic? These are the new rules.

By Meghann Myers

3 years ago

US locks down embassy in Afghanistan amid COVID-19 surge

Staffing levels at the Kabul embassy have already been significantly reduced pending the completion of the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan.

4 years ago

Nearly 100 US Naval Academy midshipmen moved off campus after testing positive for COVID-19

The school is also rolling out a raft of measures to help curb the novel coronavirus' spread in the Brigade of Midshipmen.

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

4 years ago

NORAD’s Canadian troops plan for a different holiday season at Peterson Air Force Base amid pandemic

Canada's quarantine policy has meant that jetting home for a weekend isn’t an option for the Canadian troops at Peterson Air Force Base.

By Tom Roeder, The Colorado Springs (Colo.) Gazette via the AP

4 years ago

Joint Chiefs members cleared to return to work at Pentagon after self-quarantine

Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff self-quarantined as a precaution after a senior Coast Guard official tested positive for COVID-19.

5 years ago

Top military leadership quarantines after Coast Guard vice commandant tests positive for COVID-19

The Pentagon says the other senior military leaders have not tested positive for the coronavirus, but are self-quarantining out of caution.

By Stephen Losey

5 years ago