{"id":60435,"date":"2020-08-29T15:01:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T15:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/08\/29\/troops-on-guam-are-weathering-their-second-covid-19-lockdown\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:03:36","slug":"troops-on-guam-are-weathering-their-second-covid-19-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/coronavirus\/2020\/08\/29\/troops-on-guam-are-weathering-their-second-covid-19-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Troops on Guam are weathering their second COVID-19 lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YIGO, Guam \u2014 Service members based in Guam are sheltering-in-place for a second time this year, after an August spike in COVID-19 cases on the island prompted the U.S. territory\u2019s Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero, who herself tested positive in early August, to shut down all non-essential businesses once more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of nearly 1,300 positive tests on Guam since mid-March, 192 of them have been service members, primarily airmen and sailors, Lt. Cmdr. Rick Moore, spokesmen for Joint Region Marianas, told Military Times on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Military Times is part of a small group of journalists traveling with Defense Secretary Mark Esper as he tours the Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The island first made headlines earlier this year after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/05\/19\/carrier-theodore-roosevelt-sidelined-in-guam-by-coronavirus-heads-back-to-sea-this-week\/\" target=_blank>aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt<\/a> pulled into port to handle an outbreak of roughly 100 sailors, which ballooned to more than 1,000 diagnoses by the time all sailors aboard were tested. It kicked off a series of events leading to the reassignment of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/04\/07\/navy-secretary-resigns-capping-24-hour-theodore-roosevelt-fiasco\/\" target=_blank> Capt. Brett Crozier and the resignation of then-acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, Guam\u2019s pandemic mitigation has mirrored that of many states on the mainland. A shutdown began to roll back in early May, when shopping centers, salons and flower shops began to reopen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe military and the government, we try to keep our health protection conditions as closely aligned as possible,\u201d Moore said of restrictions for personnel living on Naval Base Guam and Andersen Air Force Base.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/08\/20\/us-defense-chief-esper-to-visit-palau-guam-and-hawaii\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/50196638956_2dc7f1deb2_k.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US defense chief Esper to visit Palau, Guam and Hawaii<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Defense Secretary Mark Esper will travel to the tiny North Pacific island nation of Palau next week, as well as to Hawaii and the U.S. territory of Guam, the Pentagon said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, throughout the pandemic, their garrison commanders have been able to flex the rules, according to the missions on their respective installations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn a lot of cases, just because we cannot risk our mission readiness and, [we have to protect] our individual deployers,\u201d Moore said. \u201cFor example, we can\u2019t risk getting \u2026 a ship or submarine infected with the virus, because that will affect our readiness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At other points, he added, base facilities have been less restrictive than outside the gate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo that could be either access to a commissary or exchange, or it could be schools \u2014 could be something like that,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t always necessarily line up, but we try to meet the intent of the \u2026 local government policies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But overall, Moore said, the message to troops has been to take as many precautions as reasonable, even if they were technically allowed to visit bars and other potentially crowded places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou go down with the virus and you have to stay in isolation, or you potentially spread to somebody else, you\u2019re going to affect to the entire mission of for your command,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I think it\u2019s a personal responsibility thing \u2026 if I go down with the virus, someone else is going to have to pick up my responsibilities, and I think that extra gravitas kind of inspires you to not take any extra risk than that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In early June, Guam\u2019s government facilities came back online, as did gyms and public pools, following several weeks later by bars, restaurants, museums and other public gathering places, though with reduced capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But hundreds of new cases popped up in late July\/early August, Guerrero announced a new shelter-in-place order on Aug. 14. It\u2019s still on after setting a two-week minimum timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guam\u2019s case is unique, as most regions in the contiguous United States have not re-instituted lockdowns after moving into late spring re-openings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As many installations Defense Department-wide have lowered their health protection conditions and started to allow inter-base travel, both Naval Base Guam and Andersen Air Force base have returned to HPCON Charlie, restricting access to mission-essential personnel and shutting down most facilities, including beaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back stateside, DoD lifted travel restrictions to states like Texas and Arizona just weeks before massive spikes in cases began prompting some cities to tighten up restrictions again in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs you can imagine, the outbreak across the entire state of Texas is different,\u201d Lernes Hebert, the Pentagon\u2019s director of military personnel policy, told Military Times on July 1. \u201cBecause we don\u2019t want to do wholesale closing down and lifting of travel restrictions, we\u2019re going to do it installation by installation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guam is also unique, in that officials are allowed to disclose the number of infections on its bases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since March, Esper has cited operational security as the impetus for banning installations from releasing their cases, except for a handful of bases outside the contiguous United States, like South Korea and Japan, where local public health officials have opted to release the data for on-base infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As cases have spiked, ground zero for the military\u2019s coronavirus response is sheltering-in-place once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":101647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":66,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[66,101,23,92,12,25,67],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3315],"class_list":["post-60435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-daily-news-roundup","category-home","category-left-column","category-news","category-newsletters","category-pentagon-congress"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"5TT4IVHFOZF33KZUZM2FMDTQV4","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-military\/2020\/08\/29\/troops-on-guam-are-weathering-their-second-covid-19-lockdown\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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