{"id":31118,"date":"2020-12-03T19:24:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T19:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/12\/03\/why-the-marine-corps-might-keep-a-2-week-boot-camp-quarantine-after-the-covid-19-pandemic-ends\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:08:13","slug":"why-the-marine-corps-might-keep-a-2-week-boot-camp-quarantine-after-the-covid-19-pandemic-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2020\/12\/03\/why-the-marine-corps-might-keep-a-2-week-boot-camp-quarantine-after-the-covid-19-pandemic-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Corps may keep a 2-week boot camp quarantine after the COVID-19 pandemic ends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From spaced out racks<\/a> to a two-week pretraining quarantine, <\/a>the Marine Corps has had to adapt what boot camp and officer candidates school look like in order to keep making new Marines through the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While off-base quarantine<\/a> locations have put some financial strain <\/a>on the Corps, it also has played a role in all but eliminating other platoon-wide illnesses that happened at boot camp long before the potentially deadly virus arrived, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTypically, every officer candidate class, every recruit training class, gets some kind of crud in the first two weeks and it shuts them down,\u201d Berger told lawmakers with the Senate Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unexpected side benefits from these extra precautions have led the Corps to consider keeping the quarantine period even after the country emerges from the pandemic, Berger said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t