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Collected Item: “HPCON C Guidance at Camp Hansen, Okinawa”

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HPCON C Guidance at Camp Hansen, Okinawa

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These orders, captured in this screenshot from Marine Corps Base Camp Hansen's Facebook page, stipulate what personnel can and cannot do as the US military battled a COVID-19 outbreak on the base in early July 2020. A testament to COVID's sneaky transmission, not even secure military facilities could seal themselves off from the virus, prompting them to close down even tighter as their European counterparts did in the early months of the pandemic.

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https://www.facebook.com/IIIMEF/photos/a.1681038328796813/2975686642665302/?type=3&theater

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United States Marine Corps

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2020-07-11
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