Here's what you need to know about the new guidance for troops planning to travel during coronavirus

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Here’s what you need to know about the new guidance for troops planning to travel during coronavirus pandemic

Meghann Myers
1 hour ago

Troops looking to travel on temporary duty, for a permanent change-of-station or for vacation will have to complete a risk assessment, and possibly a restriction-of-movement before and/or after, per Defense Department guidance published on Thursday.

The guidelines can also apply to operational movements, but component commanders have more local guidance, which may include more restrictions, but might also allow aircrew, for example, to travel without ROM on either end.
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All service members will need to do a risk assessment before travelling, and if they are bringing dependents, that travel won’t be reimbursed unless they have also completed an assessment.

Those requirements include documenting whether someone has had any COVID-19 symptoms, whether they’ve been contact with a confirmed case or someone otherwise symptomatic and whether he or she knows what to look for and what steps to take if a COVID-19 infection develops.

“Service members, DoD family members, DoD civilian employees, and DoD contractor personnel should not travel if they have tested positive for COVID-19 and have not yet met the critera for discontinuing isolation, or they are symptomatic,” Donovan wrote.

They should also push back any travel if they have been in contact with someone who has tested positive, or been symptomatic, he added.
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