{"id":204693,"date":"2020-03-29T09:25:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T09:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204693"},"modified":"2020-03-31T07:08:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T07:08:42","slug":"u-s-military-high-command-sealed-off-from-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204693","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Military High Command &#8216;Sealed-Off&#8217; from Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">U.S. military command teams in charge of protecting homeland security are being isolated in the infamous Cheyenne mountain bunker where they will remain &#8216;sealed off&#8217; until the coronavirus pandemic passes<\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">James Gordon \u2013 Daily Mail March 28, 2020<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Military teams that monitor foreign missile and warplane threats to the United States are isolated at a number of military sites, including Cheyenne Mountain\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The Cold War-era bunker is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The command took such steps to ensure personnel can monitor the COVID-19 pandemic around the clock as the disease spreads around the world<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The military are not immune from the disease and such is the nervousness, those working at the bunker have prepared to seal themselves off for months\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Should the staff working at the bunker become ill, there is a third team of high-ranking military officials working another &#8216;secret&#8217; location\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The Navy revealed they saw several cases appear among the crew of its Nimitz-class aircraft carriers based in the Pacific<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Part of the U.S. Army&#8217;s Northern Command in charge of homeland security is isolating at the\u00a0Cheyenne Mountain bunker in Colorado as the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\"><strong>coronavirus<\/strong><\/a><\/span> spreads across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The bunker is a command and control site which was built inside the mountain of the same name, located near Colorado Springs.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_204325\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/OShaughnessy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204325\" class=\"wp-image-204325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/OShaughnessy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/OShaughnessy.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/OShaughnessy-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-204325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">General Terrence O&#8217;Shaughnessy, head of U.S. Northern Command and NORAD. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;To ensure that we can defend the homeland despite this pandemic, our command and control watch teams here in the headquarters split into multiple shifts and portions of our watch team began working from Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, creating a third team at an alternate location as well,&#8217; Air Force General Terrence O&#8217;Shaughnessy, head of U.S. Northern Command and NORAD, said during a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USNORTHCOM\/videos\/205565950728791\/?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARD8KZ_pnSNQded7ZclPkNKUcpszDKyBxPGKh1v1Nafv1vOPorl5NYZj8YwnlZpj8mSHoABHxHRIH8NPcSnWeNSP8k-Gvrp7ucXgET26WpCv2bfkLIVAuWUaNzJ3LJgWDDqNZd5-idgsKMoLLqfg2yWYvVLzRR6U_G2fmTCcDl%20\"><strong>Facebook Live<\/strong><\/a><\/span> town hall with those under his command.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;Our dedicated professionals of the NORAD and NORTHCOM command and control watch have left their homes, said goodbye to their families and are isolated from everyone to ensure that they can stand the watch each and every day to defend our homeland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;It&#8217;s certainly not optimal, but it&#8217;s absolutely necessary and appropriate given the situation.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The command took such steps to ensure personnel can monitor the COVID-19 pandemic around the clock as the disease spreads around the world and across the country, including within the military.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;My primary concern was &#8230; are we going to have the space inside the mountain for everybody who wants to move in there, and I&#8217;m not at liberty to discuss who&#8217;s moving in there,&#8217; O&#8217;Shaughnessy added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">NORTHCOM and NORAD take up 30 percent of the complex&#8217;s space according to <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/32777\/covid-19-drives-command-teams-charged-with-homeland-defense-into-cheyenne-mountain-bunker\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Drive<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">COVID-19 appears to be spreading rapidly as it can often be passed onto others despite the carrier not showing symptoms which only increases the chance the disease will be passed on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Should the staff working at the bunker become ill, there is in fact a third team of high-ranking military officials working another &#8216;secret&#8217; location<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">General O\u2019Shaughnessy has not specified where the third command and control watch team is based.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Earlier this week the Navy saw several cases appear among the crew of its\u00a0Nimitz-class aircraft carriers based in the Pacific.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">NORTHCOM and NORAD&#8217;s personnel are now in isolation and those working there will likely not see the families again for some time with COVID-19 expected to be around for months, if not years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;This is a marathon, not a sprint,&#8217; General O&#8217;Shaughnessy said during the town hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_204694\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cheyenne-Mountain-military-complex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204694\" class=\"wp-image-204694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cheyenne-Mountain-military-complex.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cheyenne-Mountain-military-complex.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cheyenne-Mountain-military-complex-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-204694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheyenne Mountain military command complex. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Despite being isolated in location, the Pentagon have said that other military members will not be permitted to enter the Cheyenne mountain bunker for fear of COVID-19 penetrating the complex where it could rapidly spread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It would doubtless lead to a both inconvenient and costly period of time where the entire site would have to be decontaminated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The NORAD base lies behind 23-ton blast doors and is arguably the most secure place on earth. A warren of tunnels was blasted out of Colorado granite in the 1960s and is now teeming with high-tech surveillance and monitoring equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The bi-national organization was created by the US and Canada to protect the skies over both nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Cheyenne Mountain facility was completed on February 8, 1966, and serves as NORAD&#8217;s secondary headquarters after the Peterson Air Force Base in El Paso County.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The bunker lies 2,000 feet under Cheyenne Mountain outside Colorado Springs. It can be sealed off by two giant blast doors made of concrete and steel, each 3\u00bd feet thick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The heart of the complex is a grid of six tunnels up to 40 feet wide and three stories high. They hold 15 connected buildings made of steel plates, riding on massive coil springs to absorb the shock of a nuclear blast or earthquake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The granite and steel also protect electronics from destructive pulses of electro-magnetic energy that nuclear explosions produce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cheyenne Mountain is an alluring setting for science fiction. It was depicted in the 1983 WarGames movie, among others, and in the Stargate TV series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It takes 45 seconds for built-in hydraulic machinery to close the blast doors. If the hydraulics fail, two people can close them by hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8162937\/Coronavirus-drives-army-command-teams-infamous-Cheyenne-mountain-bunker.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. military command teams in charge of homeland security are being isolated in the Cheyenne mountain bunker, &#8216;sealed off&#8217; until the coronavirus pandemic passes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204725,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204693\/revisions\/204725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}