IT’S ALL ABOUT TESTING: The Pentagon is ramping up its testing and quarantine protocols in order to separate and isolate healthy troops in an effort to keep vital missions going during the global coronavirus pandemic.

“Our desire, our aspiration, is to expand testing, especially for groups that are going to be in — probably be in tighter quarters, such as sub crews, bomber crews, basic trainees, and things like that,” said Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley at a Pentagon briefing yesterday. Currently, Defense Department laboratories can process about 9,000 COVID-19 tests a day. “We’ve got an objective here of ramping that up to about 60,000 tests here in about 45 days or so.”