Three soliders at Fort Bliss have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases in El Paso County to nine.
The two additional soldiers testing positive were roomates of the first soldier who tested positive at William Beaumont Army Medical Center on Friday, according to a Fort Bliss spokesman.
The three are members of an Army Reserve unit assigned to the 77th Human Resources Company. That New York city-based unit had recently reported for training on Fort Bliss, according to the spokesman.
WASHINGTON (AP) — It wasn’t the welcome home that U.S. soldiers expected when they returned from war zones in the Middle East in the past week. Soldiers returning to Fort Bliss, Texas, were herded into buses, and they were denied water and the use of bathrooms. Then they were quarantined in packed barracks, with little food or access to the outdoors. The soldiers posted notes on social media about the poor conditions and their complaints got quick attention from senior Army and Pentagon leaders. Now changes are under way at Bliss and Fort Bragg in North Carolina, where quarantined soldiers also complained of poor conditions.