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Daily Mail: U.S. military command teams in charge of protecting homeland security are being isolated in the infamous Cheyenne mountain bunker where they will remain 'sealed off' until the coronavirus pandemic passes
* Military teams that monitor foreign missile and warplane threats to the United States are isolated at a number of military sites, including Cheyenne Mountain
* The Cold War-era bunker is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado
* The command took such steps to ensure personnel can monitor the COVID-19 pandemic around the clock as the disease spreads around the world
* 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
* Should the staff working at the bunker become ill, there is a third team of high-ranking military officials working another 'secret' location
* The Navy revealed they saw several cases appear among the crew of its Nimitz-class aircraft carriers based in the Pacific
Part of the U.S. Army's Northern Command in charge of homeland security is isolating at the Cheyenne Mountain bunker in Colorado as the coronavirus spreads across the country.
The bunker is a command and control site which was built inside the mountain of the same name, located near Colorado Springs.
'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,' Air Force General Terrence O'Shaughnessy, head of U.S. Northern Command and NORAD, said during a Facebook Live town hall with those under his command.
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