This article is interesting: ‘Protective bubbles’: How 2 Army generals stopped the spread of coronavirus among their soldiers
- In the case of Daegu, South Korea I gather they started closing down the base around 20 February.
- Total personnel is roughly 28,500.
- A total of 2 soldiers and I gather 1 dependent became infected.
- This is 3 cases out of 28,500 or 0.01%.
- For South Korea it is 10,062 cases (as of 3:21:42 PM) out of a population of 51,780,579 or 0.02%
- In the case of Vicenza, Italy they started closing it down 24 February.
- Total personnel is 15,500: 4,000 soldiers, 2,750 Army civilians and 8,750 dependents.
- “fewer than five” have tested positive.
- This is 4? cases out of 15,500 or 0.03%
- For Italy it is 119,827 cases out of 60,243,406 or 0.20%
- One notes “The Defense Department has since banned individual military organizations or headquarters from releasing number of confirmed cases.”
The commander in South Korea, General Robert “Abe” Abrams is the son of General Creighton W. Abrams,. Jr. He is the brother of General John N. Abrams. General Creighton Abrams was the commander of the tank battalion that relieved Bastogne on 26 December 1944. He later replaced Westmoreland as commander in Vietnam. There is a tank named after him.
Picture is from this article: https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2017/05/26/colonel-creighton-abrams-at-the-battle-of-the-bulge/