after a potential exposure during a training exercise. they began medical care may 27th, five days after the pentagon first received word from a lab it go the got live anthrax from the shipments, not an agent for research. the pentagon says it s looking into why the late notification. the anthrax was in south korea for over a year. no one knowing it was live. it all began last year on march 18th, 2014, a proving ground army base in utah. a load of anthrax was ir radiated. the intent? to kill the live agent for shipment. it was shipped 22 times until last friday whether a maryland lab discovered it had live anthrax. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. you are watching cnn newsroom. ahead, stranded at sea for weeks or even months.