How a Pacific missile test site is keeping up with challenging tests in a pandemic

October 30, 2020

Defense News:

 

The Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site in the Kwajalein Atoll hasn’t missed a beat this year when it comes to testing, including a major hypersonic test at the start of the global coronavirus pandemic, according to the leader of the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command.

Through strict protocols limiting people onto the island and into the site, Kwajalein — part of the Marshall Islands — remained one of the few places on the globe that did not have any COVID-19 cases until Oct. 29, when two returning garrison employees tested negative upon departing Hawaii but tested positive upon arrival at the test site and are being quarantined.

Just to get onto the island, visitors are required to quarantine in Hawaii for two weeks and then to pass a COVID-19 test. Only about five to 10 people are approved to travel to Kwajalein a week, Lt. Gen. Daniel Karbler told Defense News in an interview earlier this month…

 

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