Daily life at an Air Force Major Command

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Title (Dublin Core)

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.

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)

https://www.afgsc.af.mil/

https://web.archive.org/web/20210122232303/https://www.afgsc.af.mil/

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)

Sensory history submissions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

01/20/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

01/22/2021

05/05/2021

07/07/2021

09/05/2022

Item sets

Covid 19

Arizona State University

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”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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