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Deputy Secretary of Defense Memorandum, Stop Movement for all Domestic Travel for DoD Components in Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019

Stop Movement for all Domestic Travel for DoD Components in Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019

Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist · United States (Department of Defense) (Federal)

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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
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 note

The memorandum PDF on media.defense.gov returns HTTP 403 and the Wayback Machine index was unreachable for wildcard queries in this session; text read.