Title 42 USC 265: “Whenever the Surgeon General determines that by reason of the existence of any communicable disease in a foreign country there is serious danger of the introduction of such disease into the United States, and that this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce such persons and property is required in the interest of the public health, the Surgeon General, in accordance with regulations approved by the President, shall have the power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places as he shall designate in order to avert such danger, and for such period of time as he may deem necessary for such purpose.”
“For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.”– 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, New King James Bible
U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo.
Vacated border crossing San Ysidro, California, 21MAR2020.
U.S. CBP photo.
The ‘intake’ area of San Ysidro border crossing.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo by Adam Streetman.
Abandoned Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, Michigan.
U.S. CBP photo by Adam Streetman.
Tractor-trailers from Canada under inspections at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Fort Street Cargo Facility at the Port of Detroit, Michigan, 21MAR2020.
U.S. CBP photo by Christopher Perry.
An abandoned looking Detroit Windsor Tunnel crossing, Michigan.
U.S. CBP photo by Adam Streetman.
Shuttered Sault Sainte Marie International Bridge, Michigan.
U.S. CBP photo by Adam Streetman.
Nobody driving through the Ambassador Bridge between Ontario, Canada, and Michigan, United States.
U.S. CBP photo by David Zapp.
In El Paso, Texas, somebody actually made it across from Mexico, forcing the Border Patrol to don Personal Protective Equipment to process them.
OPERATION COVID-19: U.S. BORDER PATROL
Florida National Guard operates the mass-testing site at Hard Rock Stadium.
Louisiana National Guard preps Bridge City volunteer firefighters on how to help run a mass-testing site.
Maryland National Guard load medical supplies and equipment at the Maryland Strategic National Stockpile location.
People lined up for testing by Pennsylvania National Guard, at Temple University’s Ambler Campus.
Rhode Island National Guard work the CoViD-19 hotline.
Somewhere in the Philippine Sea a U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman loads an ABI StepOne Plus RT-PCR machine with samples of potential CoViD-19 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), 19MAR2020.
U.S. Defense Logistics Agency’s (DLA) Germersheim Central Distribution Center begin loading pallets of semi-perishable goods on to delivery trucks, 17MAR2020.
Germersheim Central Distribution Center delivers supplies to 33 commissaries, 26 U.S. Embassies and four Navy Exchange marts across Europe and Southwest Asia.
18MAR2020, Wiesbaden High School administrators hand out lap-top computers to students as they switch to online classes only.
U.S. Army CoViD-19 instructions posted at a photo shop in Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, 16MAR2020.
Half-a-million U.S. bound CoViD-19 testing kits were loaded onto a Tennessee National Guard C-17 at the U.S. Air Force’s Aviano Air Base. Shipments of test kits made by Copan Diagnostics, in Italy, began on 14MAR2020, through the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity teachers and administrators on the U.S. Air Force’s Osan Air Base get a CoViD-19 update, 20MAR2020. Students are now taking classes online.
Peterson Air Force Base conducting CoViD-19 screenings, 20MAR2020.
The U.S. Navy’s Branch Health Clinic Makalapa conducting CoViD-19 screenings.
Nellis Air Force Base, home to the massive Red Flag aerial wargames, conducting CoViD-19 screenings at Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center.
One of many CoViD-19 signs at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.
U.S. Marines and Navy personnel prep Camp Lejeune for CoViD-19 screenings, 19MAR2020.
Crew member onboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) conducts CoViD-19 disinfecting ops while the ship awaits maintenance at Bremerton.
Arkansas National Guard work the CoViD-19 test lines at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 20MAR2020.
California National Guard activated for Operation CoViD-19. Personnel check-out vehicle mounted radios at the Roseville Armory, 18MAR2020.
Florida National Guard personnel prep to administer CoViD-19 tests at the Community Based Testing Site, C.B. Smith Park, 20MAR2020.
Hawaii National Guard conduct CoViD-19 response planning, 18MAR2020.
Louisiana National Guard CoViD-19 testing at Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans, 20MAR2020.
Members of the Maryland National Guard report for duty after being activated, 16MAR2020. More than 2-thousand were called-up or given early-warning notices for call-up! Any veteran can tell you what they are carrying. Maryland National Guard also assisted with transporting passengers from one of the infected Princess Cruise ships on 17MAR2020.
Maryland National Guard personnel set-up emergency triage tents outside Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center in Silver Spring, 19MAR2020.
Activated New Jersey National Guard personnel are screened for infections after reporting for duty, 19MAR2020.
New Jersey National Guard assists with operations at the CoViD-19 Community-Based Testing Site at Bergen Community College in Paramus, 20MAR2020.
New Jersey National Guard transported protective clothing from Hall’s Warehouse Corporation to the CoViD-19 Community-Based Testing Site at Bergen Community College.
New York National Guard operate Staten Island CoViD-19 testing site, note the ‘Hot Zone’ sign in red.
Stony Brook, New York, CoViD-19 testing site, 18MAR2020.
New York National Guard clean toys at a daycare facility in Scarsdale, 16MAR2020.
New York National Guard take calls at the CoViD-19 Hotline call center in Hawthorne, 16MAR2020.
Oregon National Guard sets-up tents outside of the Oregon Veterans’ Home (OVH) in Lebanon, 17MAR2020. The tents will be used to test the more than 2-hundred employees working at the OVH.
Oregon National Guard create the Oregon Medical Station (OMS) at the Oregon State Fairgrounds, 19MAR2020. It will be used to house 250 people from nursing homes.
Puerto Rico National Guard conducting CoViD-19 testing at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport.
Half a million CoViD-19 testing supplies were shipped from Italian suppliers on Tennessee National Guard C-17 Globemaster-3 transports to the Tennessee Air National Guard base in Memphis.
The supplies were then loaded on FedEx trucks, 19MAR2020.
West Virginia National Guard takes calls at the CoViD-19 hotline.
Somewhere at sea, a Hospital Corpsman with the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet tests for diseases using a BioFire Film Array. The hi-tech machine can test for just short of 30 diseases at the same time. The pic was taken aboard the USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), 14MAR2020.
Medical supplies being loaded onto USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) in San Diego, California, 20MAR2020.
Infected people could be delivered to USNS Mercy via MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopters.
Mercy is one of two hospital ships owned and operated by Military Sealift Command, and operates in the Pacific Ocean.
Apparently they’re expecting to drink a lot of Red Bull?
The other hospital ship is the USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), which normally operates along the Atlantic coast, including providing taxpayer funded medical services to people in Central & South America, and the Caribbean.
A Ejército Mexicano medic, assigned to the USNS Comfort, helps a boy with a severely swollen head in Haiti, November 2019.
Throngs of Haitians line-up for help from the USNS Comfort, November 2019. Will the same thing happen at U.S. ports?
Coming for you? A view from inside a MH-60S Sea Hawk assigned to USNS Comfort.
From 20FEB2020 to 07MAR2020, Army National Guard units from Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin, are taking part in Arctic Eagle-20, held in Alaska.
Also taking place about the same time is Arctic Edge-20, running from 24FEB2020 to 06MAR2020. It includes the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian forces.
These U.S. taxpayer funded coastal patrol boats, called Defender, were given to the country of Djibouti on 22FEB2020, for use in patrolling their coastal borders!
U.S. Marine with Marine Wing Support Squadron 171, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, takes part in the U.S. taxpayer co-funded building of a school in Thailand, 23FEB2020.
This pic might look like a happy tour boat, but the reason there are Coast Guard personnel onboard is that it was an illegal operation! It happened near Bahia Hutchinson Island, 23FEB2020, the boat operator was ticketed for three violations of boating regulations.
Yet another abandoned boat found by the U.S. Coast Guard, this time on Tiki Island, 28FEB2020. For the past year it seems the number of abandoned boats found by the Coast Guard has gone up, from Hawaii in the Pacific to Puerto Rico in the Atlantic. It is bad luck for boat owners, or smugglers of drugs/humans?
A day after the U.S. Coast Guard gave up their search for people reported missing, an abandoned fishing boat was found, 19FEB2020. Human smuggling is a major problem in the area.