This email is from Commanding Officer Atkinson of a specific command. The overarching commander is Jerry Short, who sent us an email earluer this week saying all Fleet Readiness Centers (aircraft rework and testing facilities) will be doing this. There is zero leadership at any level, supervisor to commander. My team has everyone fully vaxxed except me, yet they keep getting sick and having to telework. We have three out sick this week, yet I'm fine.

The email is as follows:

From: Atkinson, Thomas A Col USMC (USA) [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2022 4:35 PM To: [REDACTED]; [REDACTED] Subject: FRC East COVID-19 Testing Guidance For Unvaccinated Employees

Teammates,

Starting the week of January 10, all unvaccinated military and civilian employees are required to provide a negative COVID test result for access to DoD facilities.

Per Force Health Protection Guidance (Supplement 23) Revision 2, unvaccinated employees who work on site at a DoD facility are required to take a weekly test for access to the DoD facility.

Remote and/or full-time teleworking unvaccinated employees who do not work on-site are required to provide a negative COVID-19 test result taken within 72 hours prior to entering a DoD facility.

Unvaccinated employees and their supervisors will receive an email with additional instructions regarding testing that will include the assigned date, time and location of on-site COVID testing for employees working on-site; remote site testing procedures for detachments and other FRC East work sites; and 72-hour testing procedures for those employees who are teleworking and are required to come on–site to perform official duties.

An employee who has received a positive test result from any rapid or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, either through mandatory testing procedures or other circumstances, must report the positive test result to their supervisor and the Response Management Center and cannot access any DoD facility until cleared to return by the Response Management Center.

Please be advised that the voluntary COVID-19 testing previously conducted at Trailer 32, Drug Testing Room is no longer available due to the mandatory testing requirement beginning next week.

If you are sick or are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, inform your supervisor and do not report to work on-site or to the testing site at Trailer 32, Drug Testing Room.

FRC East Civilian employees and contractors who are symptomatic should schedule a test with their healthcare providers. Active-duty military members who are symptomatic can contact the Naval Health Clinic at MCAS Cherry Point.

And as a reminder, NAVAIR policy requires all civilian, military, contractors and visitors to wear a face covering at all times in DoD facilities.

Semper Fi,

CO

Colonel Thomas A. Atkinson, USMC

Commanding Officer, Fleet Readiness Center East

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 252.464.7000 DSN: 451

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