[ansel12]

How many patients with infectious diseases does the military treat on an annual basis?

I don't know, a lot I imagine since military personnel are among the people in the dark corners of the world, including all over Africa.

I get your point, for some reason you think the military can't come up with 30 people for the response team, even though they did it for decades until Obama's administration.

You seem to have a very limited view of what the military does, and can do.

"The U.S. military has stationed uniformed scientists in the tropics for more than 100 years, and itsh active overseas laboratories have been in place for as long as 58 years. Military scientists live and work in the tropics to study the disease threats in naturally affected populations. Countermeasures and candidate solutions are studied through all phases of development including field testing."

[driftdiver]

In most cases the military refers its patients to civilian hospitals for advanced care. The overseas military hospitals I was at had a hard time providing basic care let alone anything as complex as ebola.

Heck one guy I knew almost died because the hospital couldn’t do an operation to take out his appendix. They ended up flying him out to another military hospital 3 hours away during which his appendix burst.