Item
Daily life at an Air Force Major Command
Title (Dublin Core)
Daily life at an Air Force Major Command
Description (Dublin Core)
Daily life at Head Quarters (HQ) Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) before COVID-19 and its restrictions was full of sounds and constant movement. It was customary to walk the halls and hear keypads beeping, and door locks clicking or overhear conversations as you pass people in the halls. Meetings were full of people, and the subtle roar of conversation was only stopped by the entrance of a General officer or other meeting chairpeople. As the restrictions for COVID-19 began to roll across the country, AFGSC was quick to implement them. First came a stop movement for personnel and a restriction of movements. There would be no or severely limited Permeant Change of Stations, and all temporary duty (TDY) was canceled for the foreseeable future. All personnel was to limit their office spaces to allow for six feet of distances and, if not capable of initiating telework procedures (which was an accomplishment in itself). This was the moment that life changed at HQ AFGSC.
There would be fewer beeps and clicks. There would be no hallway conversations overheard because the hallways were nearly empty on a day-to-day basis. There were no more in-person meetings resulting in the muting of the subtle roars of conversations and the sudden silences created as meetings started. However, there was a new element created from COVID-19, a smell everywhere you went. Cleaning and self-sanitization ramped up at AFGSC. Every office you entered now had a hand sanitization station on a post or a wall. The restrooms and common areas cleaning increased, resulting in a lasting scent of bleach and other strong cleaners. But still, the most surprising thing was the silence that COVID-19 created in an ordinarily bustling Command.
There would be fewer beeps and clicks. There would be no hallway conversations overheard because the hallways were nearly empty on a day-to-day basis. There were no more in-person meetings resulting in the muting of the subtle roars of conversations and the sudden silences created as meetings started. However, there was a new element created from COVID-19, a smell everywhere you went. Cleaning and self-sanitization ramped up at AFGSC. Every office you entered now had a hand sanitization station on a post or a wall. The restrooms and common areas cleaning increased, resulting in a lasting scent of bleach and other strong cleaners. But still, the most surprising thing was the silence that COVID-19 created in an ordinarily bustling Command.
Date (Dublin Core)
March 1, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Daniel Youmans
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Daniel Youmans
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST643
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
text story
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Government Federal
English
Social Distance
English
Technology
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
sensory history
Air Force Global Strike Command
Barksdale
airforce
sound
command
smell
sanitization
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
sensory history
air force
military
AFGSC
global strike
Barksdale AFB
Collection (Dublin Core)
Military
Teleworking
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
01/20/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
01/22/2021
05/05/2021
07/07/2021
09/05/2022
This item was submitted on January 20, 2021 by Daniel Youmans using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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