With the emergence of "Covid-19" epidemics in the ranks of the American army, its commander was forced to set the record straight the day before yesterday, by asserting that the American forces are still ready to respond to any attack, despite the freezing of one of the aircraft carriers in the Pacific because of the virus.
"We are ready, whatever the threat," Gen. Mark Millie said at a televised conference directed at US forces. "I hope that no one in the world will think that the capabilities of the US military have weakened." This is not the case. ”
The "Pentagon" publishes daily the number of people infected with "Covid-19" and the number of those who were hospitalized or died in its circles, including civil servants and families of the military, every day.
However, he stopped specifying the places where these cases were discovered, due to the effect this has on the security of his soldiers.
Yesterday, Newsweek magazine published a map of the 150 US bases affected by the virus. And the Nuclear Armament expert from the American Federation of Scientists, Hans Christensen, observed that all but one of the US nuclear bases were affected by the virus. According to "Pentagon" numbers, I counted 1,988 casualties overall, as of Thursday morning, among the American forces, including 597 in the navy, who were the most affected. 64 soldiers were taken to hospital, while one died. Two thirds of the cases discovered in the US Navy were registered with the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, which is stopped off the American island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean after the evacuation of most of its crew members.
Newsweek has published a map of the 150 US bases affected by the virus.