{"id":91438,"date":"2020-04-08T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91438"},"modified":"2020-04-07T18:36:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:36:52","slug":"local-paper-army-wont-send-recruits-to-basic-training-at-fort-jackson-amid-sc-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91438","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) Army won\u2019t send recruits to basic training at Fort Jackson amid SC coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the coronavirus continues to spread, the Army announced it will stop shipping recruits to basic training, which will halt new soldiers from arriving at Fort Jackson in Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Those currently in basic combat training will finish and then be screened and monitored for COVID-19 symptoms before moving to their job assignments within the branch, the Pentagon said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to pause the shipment of trainees to BCT for two weeks will allow leaders to focus on setting conditions so movement can be conducted in a safer manner in the future,\u201d said Gen. Paul E. Funk II, commander of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/health\/covid19\/army-wont-send-recruits-to-basic-training-at-fort-jackson-amid-sc-coronavirus-outbreak\/article_486cc1a2-7904-11ea-836d-2b1764d015cb.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As the coronavirus continues to spread, the Army announced it will stop shipping recruits to basic training.<\/p>\n<p>This will halt new soldiers from arriving at Fort Jackson in Columbia.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Iinhp3X6ro\">https:\/\/t.co\/Iinhp3X6ro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/postandcourier\/status\/1247645326464307202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the coronavirus continues to spread, the Army announced it will stop shipping recruits to basic training, which will halt new soldiers from arriving at Fort Jackson in Columbia. Those currently in basic combat training will finish and then be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91438\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,104,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-health-medicine","category-military-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91442,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91438\/revisions\/91442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}