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Basic in the Pandemic

Title (Dublin Core)

Basic in the Pandemic

Description (Dublin Core)

An account of military personnel who caught COVID, the alienation and isolation felt, and their experience during training.
Interviewer Specialist Ariel Young-Ziegler,
Intervewee Private First Class Stehlin,
Collected by Preston Long 03/25/2022

"It wasn’t really anything huge. They took out hand to hand combat and some of the medical training, really anything that involved physical contact we either went over it briefly or didn’t do it at all. The drill sgts couldn’t get in your face they had to be six feet away. The COVID bay sucked, it wasn’t even really a quarantine, they packed everyone into small rooms. Once we finished quarantine we were given green beads so everyone knew we had COVID, some people looked at us like we were zombies or something. We had to wear masks all the time, sometimes during PT as well, we were all spaced out when eating too. In Advanced Individual Training AIT, it’s separate from basic since those places are where we learn our jobs not just soldiering skills where normally its up to 4 people to a room, then there were 2 people to a room. Some people got their own rooms, they never let us off base or even around base that much.”

Date (Dublin Core)

March 25, 2022

Creator (Dublin Core)

Ariel Young-Ziegler

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Preston Long

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text Story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Health & Wellness
English Social Distance
English Government State

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

military
quarantine
isolation
basic training

Collection (Dublin Core)

Military

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Preston Long Biography Sheet
HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

03/27/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

04/10/2022
05/21/2022
06/17/2022
08/02/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

03/25/2022

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