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Beat Reporting

“RIMPAC 2020 kicks off; new safety guidelines released due to COVID 19”

The RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific Islands) exercise has officially commenced last august
18 .It will be a 2 week training and exercise that features different nations and their
navies around the globe.

It was commenced by Vice Adm. Scott D Conn, commander of U.S Third Fleet and with
his prerecorded virtual welcome speech to all of the participants to the exercise,
signaling the start of the RIMPAC.

During the speech, Vice Adm. Conn announces that there will be new safety guidelines
for RIMPAC 2020 due to the terror of the COVID 19 virus that still in today as of August .
These guidelines ensure the safety to all sailors, participants, and the residents of Hawaii
so that they will not be affected by the virus.

"Everything we're doing for RIMPAC has been carefully and deliberately planned to
ensure everyone's safety" as stated by Vice Admin Conn, while deliberately announcing
that the whole RIMPAC would be at sea exercise

As stated during the speech, The RIMPAC will follow different sets of guidelines and
constructs that make everyone safe from the virus, as safety was important throughout
the event. One of the important ones are having a 14 day quarantine and negative
CoVID 19 tests were required to all U.S ships

If needed, these ships will be able to COVID 19 tests at sea similarly to the partner ships
that will join the event as there is no plan to bring any COVID 19 specimen around the
event proper and all island military facilities were on call if there will be an emergency
medical situation arises during the event, while the sailors were not allowed to step foot
at any piers.

This RIMPAC has planned to become the largest ever than 2018, but due to the
pandemic, the numbers were trickled down to more than a hundred participants with
10 countries participating from all around the globe.

This is the first time it happened since it was established in 1976. Due to increasing
heights of the pandemic, they resorted to the safety precautions and constructs to
ensure everyone is safe from the virus. This will help to combat the infection to this event
that happens every two years.
Beat reporting notes
Thursday, 20 August 2020
5:18 PM
 
RIMPAC 2020
● Vice Adm. Scott D. Conn , commander of U.S third fleet, commences the 27th Exercise Rim of the
Pacific or RIMPAC
● "everything we're doing for RIMPAC has been carefully and deliberately planned to ensure
everyone's safety"-Vice Adm. Scott D. Conn
● RIMPAC 2020 will be only at sea exercise due to COViD 19
● This construct was developed to ensure the safety of the citizens of hawaii, and the sailors
participating this RIMPAC 2020
● CoVid 19 measures for RIMPAC 2020
● 14 day quarrantine and negative COVId 19 tests were required to US ships
● If needed, the US ships will be able to coduct COVID 19 tests at sea, similarly to the partner nation
ships have testing kits onboard.
● There is no plan to bring the covid 19 specimen assured
● If emergency medical situation arises and exceeds the ship's ability to resolve, all island military
facility has sufficient capability to medically support RIMPAC 2020
● If you see ships piers at pearl, they are taking fuel food, or other supplies
● Those sailors will not leave these piers, nor they wouldn’t have contact on those piers.
● We have limited number of personels ashore, in 2018, the exercise control group were made up
of 600 people, in rimpac 2020, the number of people wiil be less than a hundred people, which in
turn they completed a 14 day quarantine and all they presented a negative CoViD 19 tests
● The RIMPAC had planned to include up to 30 countries, more than 50 ships and submarines, more
than 200 aircraft, 5000 personnel, 4000 of those will operate the shore, -the largest to date
● Scaled that down to 10 nations, 22 ships, 1 submarines, and approximately 5300 personell all who
remained on sea and ships
● 10 navies
Australia
Brunei
Canada
France
Japan
New Zealand
Republic of Korea
Philippines
Singapore
US
● All whom spend the next 2 weeks training to series of events designged to ability to operate
togheter.
● This RIMPAC will focus on warfighting and maritime domain, to include anti surface warfare, anti
sub warfare and maritime operations as well as robust livfire events
● During the events, all partner nations knows the importance of preserving unique maritime
environment that makes it so special
● I could speak on everyone's behalf, thati will miss the interactions we tipically have with the
community, however,we are not gonna be able do that this year'"
 VIDEO SOURCE:

https://www.facebook.com/RimofthePacific/posts/3438585056165966