Being at minimal manning and on different schedules from normal, they were going through a lot of changes. “Other Soldiers weren’t in quarantine, but they weren’t seeing a lot of their friends either because they were keeping the social distance required by the HPCON.
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“A lot of people got put in quarantine for two plus weeks,” said Lux. Lux said then the classes were built in PowerPoint and tailored to the topics they thought would be the most beneficial to the Soldiers resiliency needs at the time. So, we came up with the idea to create a training roster using digital signatures, that way Soldiers had to use their CAC card to sign after completing the class.” “He was trying to figure out a way that we could get all the Soldiers trained, but we were all on different shifts and minimal manning. Caleb Lux, imagery intelligence noncommissioned officer in charge for Alpha Company. “The idea came from our platoon sergeant,” Staff Sgt.
Using the Microsoft Teams application, they were able to conduct virtual classes for timely MRT to hit skills Soldiers needed during times of isolation. Latta continued, explaining that his two primary Master Resilience Training (MRT) trainers saw these issues and took the initiative to use technology to reach their Soldiers in the distributed digital environment meeting the requirement for social distancing as well as enabling them to reach Soldiers in quarantine. Add to that the restrictions put on during Health Protection Condition (HPCON) Charlie Plus and they couldn’t conduct their scheduled training in the traditional way. William Latta, first sergeant, Alpha Company, said that many people in the battalion were at least temporarily taken out of the fight. USAG HUMPHREYS, South Korea – Even when COVID-19 quarantines of personnel were at their highest, and non-mission essential personnel were isolated in their barracks rooms, the mission for 532nd Military Intelligence (MI) Battalion, 501st MI Brigade, had to go on and part of that mission was continuing to train their personnel.ĭuring this time, Soldiers, Civilians and contractors from across the installation were hard hit as individuals from the Humphreys community tested positive for the virus and those that had come in contact with those individuals were subject to quarantine procedures to limit spread of the disease.ġst Sgt. Tyler White, Master Resilience Training (MRT) trainers from Alpha Company, 532nd Military Intelligence (MI) Battalion, 501st MI Brigade, got creative with providing video recorded MRT training to Soldiers during the height of COVID-19 quarantine and minimal manning on USAG Humphreys during the months of April and May, 2020.
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