Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- March 9, 2020

The US Army will begin screening as many as 1,000 new recruits per week at either Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; or Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Pictured: Soldiers stationed on US Army Garrison Casey in South Korea undergo screenings, February 26

Daily Mail: Marine stationed just outside DC and a Navy sailor posted in southern Italy become latest US service members to test positive for coronavirus

* Marine stationed at Fort Belvoir in Virginia tested positive on Saturday
* Follows a sailor at Naval Support Activity Naples testing positive a day before
* Previously a soldier and his wife stationed in South Korea tested positive

A Marine stationed in northern Virginia has become the first U.S. service member on American soil to test positive for coronavirus, also known as COVID-19.

'A U.S Marine assigned to Fort Belvoir, VA tested positive today for COVID-19 and is currently being treated at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital,' the Pentagon said in a statement on Saturday.

The Marine had recently returned from overseas where he was on 'official business', according to the Pentagon.

Defense Secretary Mark Secretary Esper and the White House have been briefed.

Fort Belvoir is the home to numerous significant military organizations, including the Defense Logistics Agency, the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command, and the Military District of Washington's 12th Aviation Battalion, which provides rotary-wing movement to the DoD and Congress.

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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- March 9, 2020

Sailor in Italy, Marine in Virginia test positive for coronavirus -- Navy Times

US Army orders stop to movement of troops in South Korea and Italy due to coronavirus -- the Hill

23 US soldiers quarantined after possible coronavirus infection in Norway -- Stars & Stripes

Iwo Jima 75th anniversary reunion called off due to coronavirus concerns -- Marine Times

Officials Prepare to Keep Pentagon Building Running in Event of Major Coronavirus Outbreak -- Military.com

US intel says Taliban won't honor agreement with US, even as Trump says they 'really want to make a deal' -- Business Insider

Nuclear Threats Are Growing. How Should U.S. Missile Defenses Be Upgraded? -- Loren Thompson, Forbes

Arrows of Misfortune: US Missile Defence System in Dire Need of Upgrade - Forbes Analytic -- Sputnik

Destroyers left behind: US Navy cancels plans to extend service lives of its workhorse DDGs -- Defense News

Navy Wants Frigate Now, Despite Esper Review -- Breaking Defense

US Army takes 40-mile shots from extended-range cannon in demo -- Defense News

Elbit Systems to provide infrared missile warning system for U.S. Air Force F-16s -- Defence-Blog

Pentagon pilots wide-ranging programs to reduce active-duty suicide -- UPI

Keeping an F-35 flying requires proficiency in over 700 tasks — meet the airmen who can do them all -- Business Insider/US Air Force

Northrop’s Late B-2 Work Spurs U.S. Cut After $2B Outlay -- Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg

Pentagon to award mobile nuclear reactor contracts this week -- Defense News

Boeing awarded $800M to support P-8As for U.S., South Korea, New Zealand -- UPI

The intelligence community is developing its own AI ethics -- C4ISRNet

As Pentagon vacancies peak, time runs out to fill jobs -- Defense News

Civilian vacancies at Trump’s Pentagon hit new high -- Politico

Finland pulled troops from an Arctic military exercise with the US and 8 other countries over coronavirus concerns -- Business Insider

UK RAF fighter jets scrambled after Russian military aircraft approaches British airspace -- TASS

Europe ship-killing missile passes first firing trial -- Defense News

US, Russia remain largest exporters of weapons in the world -- TASS

Russia Retains Number Two Spot Among Global Arms Exporters – Think Tank -- Sputnik

Who were the largest major arms exporters in the last 5 years? -- Defense News

Russia’s Pacific Fleet Forms Two New Anti-Submarine Strike Groups -- Sputnik

China disputes report it fired laser at US Navy plane -- Navy Times/AP

Hundreds of Vietnamese fishing boats intrude into Chinese waters, think tank claims -- SCMP

North Korea fires 3 unidentified projectiles, says South Korea’s military -- Military Times/AP

Japan commissions its first submarine running on lithium-ion batteries -- Defense News

S-400 air defense deployment to begin in April, Erdogan says -- TASS

Who Wouldn’t Want to Make Our Nuclear Weapons Safer? -- Patty-Jane Geller, RCD

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