Timothy Kemp of the Minnesota National Guard, who is wearing a face mask. Just ahead is the commander of this unit, Col. Then we pass a handful of soldiers, huddled in front or an armored vehicle. We pass abandoned cars, a portrait of Afghan president Hamid Karzai on a plaster wall, a building with a minaret that resembles a mosque. Soldiers crouch against walls, while others stand guard. The generals hop into Humvees for the drive through the mock village of Seize Razish. Soldiers are constantly monitored for symptoms, the generals say. Since those soldiers were so spread out among the 4,000, it's had no effect on the two-week training effort, that includes the assault on the village. And then you've got to do continuous surveillance because you don't want someone to spread it throughout the force" "You don't want that 1% to grow to 10%," McConville said. Contact tracing led to another one hundred soldiers who had to be quarantined. Those soldiers were isolated, the general said, but not one was hospitalized. It was there was less than 20 that," he said. "And so, we did identify positive soldiers. The Guard soldiers were tested before coming here, says Lesperance, and screened once again when they came to Fort Irwin. So, we have to train them, you know? And so, we've got to do this."
And they got to be highly trained just and fit. "So, we have to go and we have to put soldiers on the ground. "You know, you can't telecommute to combat," he says. A few months ago, the Army had to scale down a large exercise in Europe because of the pandemic. McConville says the mask, as well as widespread testing is all part of getting the Army safely back to large-scale training.
Jim McConville observes training at Fort Irwin. What if a soldier is not wearing a mask or let's is slip off his face? Lesperance has a ready answer.
"And if you look around, it's kind of the standard." McConville sports a camouflage one that matches his uniform. Jim McConville who stands nearby watching the mock attack. "I was pleasantly surprised with the level of discipline and approach to wearing this mask out here," he says.Īnd the general himself is wearing a mask as he explains all this. What's new, the general says, is a key piece of equipment. Think of it as a sophisticated laser tag. The Army's been rotating thousands of soldiers here every few months for nearly four decades to fight the resident opposition force. "There's another one called the wormhole, and then there's a passage to India. "So, we called that one granite pass," he says. Lesperance points to mountain passes in the distance, more like scars in the parched earth. All Rights Reserved to their respective owners.Gen. This web site is completely unofficial and in no way endorsed by Games Workshop Limited.Īdeptus Astartes, Blood Angels, Bloodquest, Cadian, Catachan, the Chaos devices, Cityfight, the Chaos logo, Citadel, Citadel Device, Codex, Daemonhunters, Dark Angels, Dark Eldar, 'Eavy Metal, Eldar, Eldar symbol devices, Eye of Terror, Fire Warrior, Forge World, Games Workshop, Games Workshop logo, Genestealer, Golden Demon, Gorkamorka, Great Unclean One, Inquisitor, the Inquisitor logo, the Inquisitor device, Inquisitor:Conspiracies, Keeper of Secrets, Khorne, Kroot, Lord of Change, Necron, Nurgle, Ork, Ork skull devices, Sisters of Battle, Slaanesh, Space Hulk, Space Marine, Space Marine chapters, Space Marine chapter logos, Tau, the Tau caste designations, Tyranid, Tyrannid, Tzeentch, Ultramarines, Warhammer, Warhammer 40k Device, White Dwarf, the White Dwarf logo, and all associated marks, names, races, race insignia, characters, vehicles, locations, units, illustrations and images from the Warhammer 40,000 universe are either ®, TM and/or © Copyright Games Workshop Ltd 2000-2013, variably registered in the UK and other countries around the world.
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