From the rising price of ground beef at commissaries to foreign-deployed soldiers who have been quarantined repeatedly, service members expressed their frustrations to the Pentagon’s senior leadership, who previewed more coronavirus-related protocol changes in a virtual town hall Thursday.

“The light gets even stronger at the end of the tunnel at this point in time,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in his opening remarks, thanking the more than 55,000 service members, including the 45,000 National Guardsmen who have been deployed on the home front in the COVID-19 response.

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