You are aware that RT started out as Russia Today? They aren’t the most reliable source for info about the US military.

Having said that, epidemics among recruits in basic training have ALWAYS been a problem.

https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S...08)00163-3/pdf

It would not surprise me if they barred anyone with a history if COVID from being recruited until they can come up with procedures to assure nobody is spreading the virus before they let them into basic training.

It wouldn’t even surprise me if they didn’t take them until there was a vaccine available.The list of immunizations routinely given in basic training is quite extensive:

https://www.thebalancecareers.com/mi...ations-4058318

Bringing a bunch of people in from all over the US and putting them into the same barracks entails considerable risk for meningitis and other diseases that may be brought in by immune carriers to a disease and rapidly spread in the boot camp environment.