
The Defense Department plans to “modify and extend” the current stop-movement order that restricts U.S. military personnel from traveling, with a new expiration date to be announced in the next couple of days, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said April 14. The current order limits non-mission-critical personnel from traveling outside a 50-mile radius of their home station through May 11, in an effort to combat the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. A new date is still being finalized, Esper said…