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moved into a large aircraft hangar designated for quarantining any arrivals at the military base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba who had been authorized to travel to the island. As things started collapsing in the United States and without any breakthrough on the horizon , the Joint Chiefs of Staff had worked out a plan to evacuate Dr. Woods and the surviving members of his FEMA crisis team as well as critical scientific and medical staff from the CDC laboratories in Atlanta, Georgia and Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Maryland to the American military installation on Cuba. The conditions that had to be met before any of them were to be allowed on the base was a medical screening prior to stepping foot on any aircraft bound for the base followed by a quarantine period in strict isolation inside this hangar that had been hastily prepared in advance of their arrival. He did have to hand it to the military, in less than twenty four hours they had erected an inflatable containment shelter inside the hanger that had an independent air circulation system and would help to ensure that any contaminants they may have carried with them were not released into the surrounding atmosphere. Each of them had been required to don bio-hazard suits with attached air tanks onboard their flight to the base. Since then they had each been subjected to multiple rounds of physical examinations, had quarts of blood drawn and given up more urine and stool samples than their bodies had seemed capable of providing. The original plan had called for a period of twenty four hours’ worth of quarantine while blood and urine tests were conducted to ensure that each of them was completely clean of the virus. Even after that was accomplished they were to be sequestered at the furthest reaches of the base where construction crews were still working night and day to build a small complex that would house them and their equipment. None of the staff working in that complex would be allowed access to any other area on the base or contact with any personnel either stationed on the base or civilians from the local communities. They were to be completely isolated in their own world until a cure for the virus was found and proved effective.
    Two days after their arrival , none of their personnel had been permitted to leave the hangar or allowed access to any of their equipment to continue their work. Armed Air Force Security Patrol guards in full chemical warfare gear remained stationed outside the containment shelter and in plain view of the more than forty scientists, doctors, technicians and analysts who had been given special clearance for evacuation from the Continental United States in order to continue on the work of finding a way to fight the spreading infection.
    Two Star Major General (MG) Matthew Brookover was the ranking officer remaining with the US Army's Southern Command originally based out of Doral, Florida. MG Brookover had been conducting an inspection tour of forces in Honduras in Central America when the outbreak was first reported. Central Command headquarters in Florida had been hit hard in the early stages of the infection and the senior leadership above MG Brookover were lost in the first twenty four hours, leaving him in overall command. Along with several junior staff officers he had left Honduras for Cuba as soon as the quarantine of that country had been announced by the Joint Chiefs and had assumed overall command of all ground forces as well as security operations for Guantanamo. He had also assumed command of the Cuban forces that were now under American control as the Cuba General and his own security team initiated a military coup against the government and voluntarily approached the American military with an olive branch of cooperation to see them all through the crisis. MG Brookover had not been impressed with the arrangements made by the Joint Chiefs to evacuate the scientific personnel to Cuba and he had argued strongly against it.