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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon May 25, 2020, 09:01 PM May 2020

Pentagon charts its own course on COVID-19, risking Trump's ire

The Pentagon is actively planning on living with the coronavirus well into 2021, putting it at risk of angering President Trump as he expresses confidence that the disease is on the wane.

Defense officials have extended a freeze on troop movement, held ships in port and laid the framework for what the military will look like in an extended pause because of the COVID-19 pandemic. On Tuesday, a leaked Pentagon memo revealed that top Defense Department (DOD) officials are planning for the possibility that the military could be dealing with the virus beyond this year.

The extended preparation cuts against White House messaging that the virus will recede in the coming months and that a vaccine could be available by the end of the year.

"There is a disconnect," said Mackenzie Eaglen, a former congressional adviser on defense now with the conservative American Enterprise Institute. "At the same time, if anyone can take safe cover behind 'We're the department of planning for all contingencies,' they can because that is what they're supposed to do, over-plan and over-prepare."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pentagon-charts-its-own-course-on-covid-19-risking-trumps-ire/ar-BB14z42T?li=BBnb7Kz

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Pentagon charts its own course on COVID-19, risking Trump's ire (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP
Troop movements caused the Spanish Flu to spread quickly The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #1

The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. Troop movements caused the Spanish Flu to spread quickly
Mon May 25, 2020, 09:03 PM
May 2020

around the world in 1918. The Pentagon is surely taking this seriously even if Fat Nixon won't.

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