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“Marines are pissed,” said one low-level enlisted Marine stationed at Camp LeJeune in North Carolina who spoke to HuffPost recently on the condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal.

Commanders are still requiring their subordinates to stand in close proximity during formation exercises on the base and to do physical training in the morning that involves activities like “body drags” and “fireman carries,” which require grabbing and touching other, perspiring Marines, the Marine said.

Across the country at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Washington, an Air Force airman sent HuffPost photos of other servicemen on the base standing in formation and playing basketball together.

He also says he witnessed groups of soldiers take the Army Combat Fitness Training test together without disinfecting the required gym equipment afterward.