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Navy sets rules for sailor moves during pandemic

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Navy sets rules for sailor moves during pandemic U.S. Naval Institute The Navy is working through a backlog of about 42,000 sailors and their families who have been in stuck in place after the end of a stop-movement order that froze the permanent change of station process for sailors, Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. John Nowell told reporters. The stop-movement order that Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made in March to protect military families from the COVID-19 pandemic was lifted earlier this month. The Navy recently issued two sets of directions for how moves would resume for the service. Now, with the new rules in place, the service will start eating away at the backlog. The early focus will be on critical billets like strategic forces, forward-deployed naval forces, special operations and sailors assigned to units preparing to deploy within the next year, according to the NAVADMIN message. READ MORE

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