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FORT BENNING, Ga. – At Fort Benning April 9, Soldiers recently graduated from initial-entry training have their names checked against a travel manifest before departing by bus to new assignments at Fort Stewart, Georgia, under elaborate health-and-safety precautions. The 40 Soldiers, graduates of Infantry and Armor One-Station Unit Training here, had been unable to head to Fort Stewart under a Pentagon COVID-19 travel ban, but became the first to depart Fort Benning when the Army okayed the move. Precautions included screening bus drivers on arrival for COVID-19, screening the departing Soldiers, taking their temperatures and marking them on wristbands, cleaning the buses under government guidelines, filling the buses to only half-capacity to ensure safe distancing, making the trip non-stop to Fort Stewart to further minimize exposure, and re-screening the troops on arrival there. The troop movement was a "pilot" effort which, if deemed successful, could open the way for further departures of Fort Benning's OSUT graduates to their first units of assignment.
| Date Taken: | 04.09.2020 |
| Date Posted: | 04.10.2020 19:35 |
| Photo ID: | 6169949 |
| VIRIN: | 200409-O-IE830-623 |
| Resolution: | 1600x1067 |
| Size: | 406.39 KB |
| Location: | FORT BENNING, GEORGIA, US |
| Web Views: | 13 |
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First group of newly-trained Soldiers departs Fort Benning amid elaborate health precautions
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