Leaders Not Sure if Troops on Ebola Deployments Will Receive R&R

Military.com ^ | Nov 14, 2014 | Amy Bushatz

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Military.com: Leaders Not Sure if Troops on Ebola Deployments Will Receive R&R

FORT CAMPBELL – Military leaders have not yet decided whether troops deployed to West Africa will receive mid-tour leave, officials told Army family members here at a town hall style video teleconference (VTC) to Liberia held here Nov. 13.

Answers given at the town hall by Maj. Gen. Gary Volesky, commander of the 101st, were paraphrased by Fort Campbell-based officials and posted to the base’s official Facebook page. The event was not open to reporters.

Defense officials have said the Ebola related deployments to Liberia could last as long as a year, but have yet to give a specific timeline for redeployment. Some soldiers with the 101st have been told they could return to the U.S. anywhere between December of this year and August 2015.

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• MilitaryTimes: Reserve, guard on deck for Ebola deployment 11/14/2014 5:30PM

  During a town hall meeting at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on Thursday, Army leadership told family members that the units now in West Africa could stay there up to a year.

[ansel12]

It seems like a shorter period of duty would be more practical, perhaps 8 or 9 months rather than a year.

[AlaskaErik]

Obola probably would love to give them 14 days of leave, but oops, you need to spend 21 days in quarantine. So sorry you didn’t get to see your loved ones, suckers. <sarc