Originally Posted by
Climb150
Well of you may not know but most military people live off base now. "Living out allowance" saw to that. There are literally thousands of empty rooms around Australia at various bases.
The fact that most people live off (and have done for a couple of decades or more) is why there are no longer ‘thousands’ of empty rooms on bases. Many of those facilities have either been demolished or are not in a state where they can be easily converted to quarantine facilities. Think shared ablution facilities (not a great thing when trying to quarantine people), difficulties arranging for meals to be delivered to rooms, transport and logistics issues transporting people to/from capital city airports, lack of suitable mass laundry facilities, security issues on the ADF bases, etc.
Some bases may be able to handle some people but on aggregate across the nation not on the scale you’re suggesting.
Originally Posted by
Climb150
What are all our infantry Regiments doing right now? What about artillery and Armour units? We have thousands of full time and thousands of reserve people available.
I presume they’re doing their day jobs?