Posted on 09/28/2014 5:41:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
On Saturday, a handful of troops from the Navy's 133rd Mobile Construction Battalion led a bulldozer through thigh-high grass outside Liberia's main airport, bottles of hand sanitizer dangling from their belt loops.
They had been digging a parking lot in the East African nation of Djibouti this month when they received a call to build the first of a dozen or more tent hospitals the U.S intends to construct in this region. The soldiers started by giving the land a downward slope for water runoff—"to keep out any unwanted reptiles," said Petty Officer Second Class Justin Holsinger.
While this team levels the earth, superiors hash out the still-uncertain details of the American intervention here.
The epidemic is showing signs of gaining speed—6,574 cases had been reported officially as of Sept. 23, with 3,091 deaths. Those fatalities are more than double the number of both a month ago. The actual number of cases is believed to be three or four times as high. Had no international aid come, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, the number of cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone might have soared to 1.4 million by mid-January.
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Those carts have to take them somewhere.
Hussein only says “we” when he screws up. Otherwise he is all “I me my”
Indeed.
Some are not quite dead, but they are not at all well.
But are getting better!
Thanks for the link, your voice, Ben. It would have been more apropos. I was attempting to juxtapose the insanity of increasing the probability of bringing ebola home and the compassion for the victims.
Nice chorus. (my last was in elementary school…I enjoyed it.)
Heh!
That guy on right (2nd row, 2nd from R to L) looked like Jon, The Crook, Corzine.
/observation
Today he said “we underestimated ISIS”, then he blamed Jim Clapper for it.
We from one of the, if not the, most advanced societies on Earth building tents in Africa? We were building parking lots? Absolute waste.
How would that be pulled off?
They are on a peacetime mission, living with their fellow soldiers using their phones and laptops, but somehow they get what could be exposed and are moved over to isolation, and if infected, then go to Ebola treatment, and most of them would recover, a few might die, and their body would be handled by fellow military Ebola burial procedures.
Somehow this is concealed from all their fellow GIs doing all of this and handling their transportation and gear and everything, and their cause of death hidden from families and the media, and all the other GIs involved in the drawn out process??
We have a base in Djibouti, the parking lot could have been for it.
We have a whole lot of places in Africa that our military operates out of.
I’m less concerned about the disease than I am the marginally civilized natives. So far I haven’t gotten an answer about what happens when our soldiers are confronted with a desperate machete wielding mob.
After all a couple dozen health workers have been hacked to death in recent months.
“The soldiers started by giving the land a downward slope for water runoff—”to keep out any unwanted reptiles,”
And hopefully for an unobstructed field of fire.
Hey ansell2, only few might die you say. Your previous posts if I recall correctly led me to believe that the USA would come to the rescue of Liberia at little risk to our troops. When did you realize that some could get sick and die. When are you going over to help out so that my military kin won’t have to go.
Don’t be an idiot, and don’t lie.
I have never, and would never say that there isn’t any risk, or that people couldn’t die.
Try to be realistic in your silly attacks.
You deny you you haven’t been a proponent of our direct involvement in Liberia? When anyone proposes that others should go and face a dangerous situation they should think whether they would go themselves or be willing to see their family members go in their stead. That’s just my idiot opinion.
I am cringing at the thought that they are only being given hand sanitizer.
Sure, I would go into the military for the third time.
Good for you.
Build a base. Spend big bucks to bring in expensive buildings, equipment and gear. Get pulled out and waste all that time and investment. Go to another country and repeat.
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