Nearby Military Base Changing Work Habits due to COVID-19

Mar 18, 2020 at 08:02 am by bryan


Out of a workforce of over 2,000 people at Arnold Air Force Base, several hundred Rutherford County residents make the daily commute to the base in Tullahoma every single day. But due to the Coronavirus, that could change.

AFB leadership have begun taking proactive measures to protect the health of the workforce and help slow the spread of community transmission.

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To date, such measures include expanding telework opportunities and limiting mission activities to those which are most vital to our national security.
The base is adhering to the Department of Defense's travel restrictions, and have canceled all upcoming community engagements and Services activities, as well as limited food service to take-out only. They have also closed Mulligan's Grill. The Arnold Golf Course will remain open only for scheduled tee times.

The base will continue to reinforce good personal hygiene and sanitation practices per the Center for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.

As the spread of the coronavirus within Tennessee grows, they will take more aggressive action up to maximizing telework options and limiting the workforce to mission-essential personnel only. Branch-level leadership and immediate supervisors will be the primary conduit of information for the workforce.

Additionally, information will be kept current on the Arnold AFB public website, where a page has been created for coronavirus related topics at https://www.arnold.af.mil/coronavirus/.

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