These aren’t SEALs shot down on a combat mission.
To have ordinary GIs and support troops on a no-combat humanitarian mission living in garrison and comfort and among their fellow regular troops and cell phones, and laptops, be exposed, become infected, be isolated and treated, die, and the bodies handled as Ebola bodies after death, is not going to be able to be kept secret.
Even if someone wanted to do so.
“These aren’t SEALs shot down on a combat mission.”
Wow. Obtuse much?
The military cremated remains contrary to the family’s wishes. They could very easily do it again. Regardless of where and how the troop died.
The families will have no clue what killed their kin. Or even if the ashes in the jar are really the remains of their kin.
The military will conceal such infections until such a time as they’re no longer concealable. Particularly if revealing the presence of said infections violates some previously unstated rules of PC or political expediency.
Do you really expect the military to come clean about such a thing? Just from matters of national security. Imagine what terror organizations could do with the information that it was possible to infect even ONE us military troop? National security will be used to justify such illnesses as they occur until such a point as they’re no longer concealable.
Do you really think our military will run right out to press organizations and announce that ‘private so and so has contracted ebola, is being treated for it and is in stable condition’? Really?