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the u.s. military remains on the front lines in this battle against the coronavirus. passing out food, providing transportation and building giant field hospitals in hard-hit cities. at last count, 60,000 servicemen and women have been sent into action against this new invisible enemy, but there is another mission for military leaders when it comes to defending their own ranks against the threat of infection. and these days, that starts in basic training. david martin has the story for "60 minutes." >> reporter: everything in the army starts with basic training. and every day st but it never looked or sounded like this before. >> everything your hands will touch, everything, it's got to get wiped down. your beds, everything.

if it collects dust, you're going to wipe it down. do you understand? >> yes, sir, yes. >> reporter: it's not dust drill sergeant is worried about, it's coronavirus. that's why he takes every recruit's temperature first thing. >> if your organization is infected by something like this, you know, these people, these initial entry trainees are our combat power. so if they go down and if we can't do it safely, then we are rendering ourselves obsolete. do you understand? >> reporter: last month 63 recruits in a class dupended basic training. >> you're going to do everything that i tell you. you do not move unless i tell you to. >> reporter: that's not a recruit he's barking at. it's a four-star general. >> make sure you're standing on top of the red and white x. is that clear? >> reporter: he took on the role

of a recruit to witness the revamp training firsthand. after coronavirus had forced the army to stop taking in new soldiers. >> we took a two-week pause. >> reporter: for two weeks you're not taking in any recruits? >> that's correct. >> reporter: has that ever happened before? >> i'm not aware of any time at least in my 39 years where we stopped taking recruits in. but these are different times. >> reporter: training is still going on at fort jackson for recruits who arrive before the two-week pause. but now every soldier is wearing a face mask. loading up on hand sanitizer before moving into firing position and trying to stay 6 feet apart. >> please stop. stop. >> keep your distance. >> reporter: we call it social distancing. the army calls it tactical dispersion. >> we have been executing socially distance enabled training since week two. >> reporter: either way lieutenant colonel patrick collins says it's a problem. >> day to day our biggest

problem is keeping them in that 6 feet because you tend to tell them, okay, separate, get your 6 feet, you know. couple minutes later kind of natural human behavior, they start clustering again and you have to tell them again. >> move back, move back. >> reporter: nothing at fort jackson is normal any more. the army says it has the best-dressed soldiers in the world. tailors who alter uniforms for a better fit are now turning out face masks. >> these are brand-new, brand-new. >> reporter: and the single-most important equipment he saw on his tour was a pair of high-speed covid-19 test machines. >> that gives us the ability to test 750-plus in one day with a one-day turn around. >> and then they go and we test that bubble also. we continue to expand the bubbles of testing to make sure we cut it off rather than watch it spread. >> reporter: the chief of staff's job is to get the army ready to fight. these days the general says he

spends three quarters of his time trying to fight coronavirus to keep his soldiers healthy. just six weeks ago he was sending heavy armour to europe for one of the largest exercises since the cold war. >> the toughest decision we had to make was to cancel defender 20. >> reporter: defender 20 meant sending an entire division-size force and its equipment to europe just as the virus was assaulting the continent. >> we just started war gaming. what would happen if we had 15 or 20,000 soldiers in a very close environment and, you know, the virus broke out, how would we take care of them? and did we want to put our soldiers at that much risk for c d we chose not to. >> reporter: you have to curtail training. you have to postpone major exercises. that's got to take a toll on the readiness of the army. >> from where i sit, i'm looking

at the long game. and the long game is that we have to protect the force to protect the nation. >> reporter: how big a price have you paid so far? >> i don't think we paid a huge price yet. am i concerned long term? absolutely. >> i'll be honest. it's been a little bit intimidating thinking about it. you train in your career to fight an enemy you can see. this is one that you can't. >> reporter: air force brigadier general fighter pilot is about as far removed from basic training as it gets. underneath 1500 feet of granite at this command post, inside cheyenne mountain, colorado. >> it is a secure location we intend to operate out o >> reporter: cheyenne mountain was built to withstand a nuclear blast. but every time a watch team makes this half mile walk into the mountain, they risk bringing the virus with them. which is why each team spends 14 days in quarantine before going on duty. when their watch starts --

>> first step you do, you start wiping down every surface. your computers, telephone, desk surfaces, door handles, et cetera, to make sure all those are clean as well. it's a bit like an obsessive compulsive disorder, but we have to be able to make sure that there's no exposure to that virus. >> reporter: because our "60 minutes" team had not been quarantined, our cameras were not allowed inside the mountain. this footage was shot by the military. the interview was conducted from the pentagon. >> when occasionally we have to bring somebody from outside into our bubble for work on an i.t. system, for example, we scatter like cockroaches. it's as if this is the most dangerous thing we've ever done in our careers. it's not being shot at, it's not flying combat. it's actually having somebody from outside the bubble arrive inside of her. >> reporter: this command center performs what they call a zero-fail mission. a 24/7 watch against a missile or bomb era tack on the united states.

since the pandemic began, cheyenne mountain has scrambled as three times. do you think they were testing you at all, to see if anybody was home at cheyenne mountain? >> i suspect the way they look at the authorities, probably is related to understanding our ability to operate in a covid environment. >> reporter: cheyenne mountain was ready for the russians, but not for coronavirus. >> this is something new. this is something that we had to invent on the fly. as our adversary was not exactly like the one we planned to fight. >> there are so many aspects of what's going on nowhat are not thte dng. >> reporter: general o'shaughnessy is the man in charge of defending the home land. he had plans for dealing with all kinds of disasters, including a pandemic. but nothing on this scale. >> often we practice what we call the complex disasters where we might have an earthquake

maybe that hit multiple states and we consider those to be complex, and to have an actual disaster declared in the 50 states and the responses happening with them. that is unprecedented. >> reporter: so, you know the old saying about plans. no plan ever survives first contact with the enemy. >> this plan did not survive contact with the enemy. >> reporter: despite all the top secret intelligence he sees, o'shaughnessy did not have a good understanding of the virus. >> having an enemy that you don't fully understand is always a little bit frustrating. >> and you can see the full "60 minutes" report on our website, cbsnews.com. the overnight news will be right back.

overseas, british war hero captain tom moore celebrated his 100th birthday yesterday. captain moore raised tens of millions to help fight the coronavirus by holding a charity walk through his own garden. and as charlie d'agata reports, a grateful nation showed its love. >> reporter: 125,000 birthday cards for captain tom who wants to be known asintom,trdrred thi morning. a lot of these birthday cards are written by children. this one reads, you're never too old to dream a new dream. what kind of guy gets a spit fire and hurricane fly by for his birthday? a birthday card from the queen. and a message from the prime minister. >> we wish you a very happy 100th birthday. >> reporter: a guy like captain

tom moore. can i be one of the first to wish you a happy 100th birthday? >> thank you very much. that's very kind of you. >> reporter: you got 125,000 birthday cards this year. how many did you get last year? do you remember? [ laughter ] >> maybe five or six or so. >> reporter: a lot's changed since captain tom unwittingly stepped onto the world's stage a few weeks ago, raise a bit of money and support for overwhelmed health care workers dealing with the horrors of coronavirus. >> they're all working so hard and if they continue to work hard and puttingelves intmortala hero. cter h believes her father stepped upe and it's the message that we are

l united. and iis the message that it doesn't take one generation. we're all in it together. >> reporter: along the way, the now 100-year-old world war ii veteran on a mission found new friends in high places. >> he's a one-man fund-raising machine. we don't know what the final total will be. >> reporter: he hoped to raise $1200. it has soared to more than 30 million. and even when he'd finished his walk, it wasn't over. he took part in a charity single. you'll never walk alone, and became the oldest british number one artist in history. >> it would be great if i was the youngest. >> reporter: captain tom's days of walking for charity have ended but we do have an update. listen to this. it's now around $40 million that he's raised, $1 million today alone. >> and that is the overnight news f this friday. from the cbs news studios

captioning sponsored by cbs ♪ a o'donnell: tonight, most of america begins to reopen as fears mount of a second wave. 35 states ease restrictions, which means millions more americans can go to shopping malls, movie theaters, and restaurants. but are people afraid to go? california closes many popular beaches because of big crowds. and tonight, this scene in michigan: protesters, some of them armed, flood the state capitol, demanding the governor reopen. economic despair: 30 million file jobless claims in the past six weeks. plus, a mile-long line for food in dallas. "operation warp speed": the ambitious plan to have 300 million doses of a covid-19 vaccine ready by the end of the