Military Names 5 US Bases for Ebola Mission Troops

ABCNews ^

[rustyboots]

The top U.S. military officer has designated five U.S. bases where American troops would be housed and isolated for 21 days upon returning from Africa after serving in the Ebola response mission, U.S. officials said Friday. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed a plan that lists Fort Hood and Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; and Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, as bases where troops would be quarantined. The U.S. also will use two bases in Italy and Germany for returning troops based in that region.

[Beowulf9]

Just go to Maine.

[rustyboots]

These five US Bases house approximately 178,000 active duty soldiers. Thousands more military reservists and then again, thousands more contractors and military retirees.
178,000 soldiers represents approximately 37% of US Army manpower.
If Ebola were to to return with some of them and break out(a very slight chance I suspect), then more than one third of the US Army would not be able to deploy for at least 21 days.
Planned??

[ansel12]

They are being quarantined, not showing up to mix.

Quarantine doesn’t require being sent to remote, uninhabited regions.

[Paulie]

“Planned??”

Let’s just say they’re rolling the dice on this one.

Maybe one of the lgbt types will go ‘Kaci’ on them and refuse quarantine, only to disappear into the civilian community.

[justa-hairyape]

Not slight. Guaranteed to happen. Has already happened in the US twice. Dallas and New York. Someone from West Africa went into the contagious symptoms phase on both occasions. And others have become infected. So it will occur again and again and again. And now it looks as if Obola is flying in sick African citizens with Ebola for treatment in the US.