Corps Turns over Alternate Care Site facility to the State of Te
(Left to Right) Maj. Gen. Robert Whittle, Great Lakes and Ohio River Division commander, Lt. Col. Sonny B. Avichal, Gov. Bill Lee and Thomas Mason, resident engineer attend an turnover ceremony. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is turning over an alternate care site this morning to the state of Tennessee that provides an additional 67 COVID-19 non-acute treatment spaces at Nashville General Hospital. The project involved the demolition and renovation of the eighth floor of the hospital to create a functioning alternate care site for the treatment of non-acute COVID-19 patients. June 5, 2020. USACE photo by Mark Rankin

The most recent appropriations for the Department of War expired at 11:59 p.m. EST on September 30, 2025. Military personnel will continue in a normal duty status without pay until such time as a continuing resolution or appropriations are passed by Congress and signed into law. Civilian personnel not engaged in exempted or excepted activities will be placed in a non-work, non-pay status.