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"Building upon previously enacted movement restrictions governing foreign travel, permanent change of station moves, temporary duty and personal leave, this stop movement order will also impact exercises, deployments, redeployments and other global force management activities," the Pentagon said in a statement. "Approximately 90,000 service members slated to deploy or redeploy over the next 60 days will likely be impacted by this stop movement order."

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