The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States (Department of Defense)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 10 U.S.C. § 113; DoD travel authorities
- Issued
- 2020-03-13 Mar. 13, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-16 through 2020-05-11 (extended to June 30, 2020 by the Apr. 20, 2020 memorandum, Ex. FED-282) (read as 2020-03-16)
- End
- 2020-05-22 (replaced by the conditions-based memorandum, Ex. FED-283) (read as 2020-05-22)
- In force
- Mar. 16, 2020 to May 22, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Travel and quarantine
- Addressees
- all DoD military personnel
- DoD civilian employees and family members with Government-funded travel
- Functions reached
- TV PCS, TDY and Government-funded leave travel halted for 1.3 million service members and DoD civilians
- CB moving companies, hotels, airlines and installation-town commerce
- MK DoD trade-show and conference attendance
- Collection
- Federal commerce, travel, workplace and finance layer FED-B
Operative words
All DoD military personnel will stop movement while this memorandum is in effect. [as quoted in contemporaneous press]
Enforcement
DoD directive; exceptions for mission-essential, humanitarian and extreme-hardship travel
Notes
With the Mar. 11, 2020 foreign-travel memorandum it stopped DoD movement for 2020 Q2; the Apr. 20, 2020 memorandum extended the stop to June 30, 2020.
Retrieval noteThe memorandum PDF on media.defense.gov returns HTTP 403 and the Wayback Machine index was unreachable for wildcard queries in this session; text read.