Yup! Just found it. Of course. USAMRIID
I wish they’d have said that. All the press is saying is ‘soldiers’. And ‘boots on the ground’. This is stupid and leaves the impression that they’re sending in Joes.
USAMRIID has been involved with Ebola, Cholera, and many other outbreaks.
Now the only thing that I did find about USAMRIID in reference to this outbreak is that they were going to be ‘providing laboratory support’ for the outbreak, but that article was from last July.
From the little that I have seen, these 3,000 are way beyond USAMRIID and while a lot is medical, a whole lot of it is construction, and instructors, and logistical muscle for moving supplies, equipment, and gear.
They will also try to produce 500 new Ebola medical trainees per week among the population.
Below are excerpts:
“The key elements of military response will focus on logistics, supplies, engineering, support for the Accra, Ghana, “air bridge” for transport of supplies and personnel to the epidemic, and the construction of at least 17 new hospital facilities designated for Ebola care.
The military will also build a training facility, which will rapidly teach infection control and self-protection procedures to hundreds of local and foreign health workers. The military hopes to process up to 500 health workers, both civilians and humanitarian responders, in a week.
The civilian side of the operation will feature further expansion of CDC deployment of epidemiologists and laboratory workers, primarily in Liberia.
The U.S. Public Health Service will provide medical staff for a Department of Defense-built 25-bed hospital in Monrovia. And USAID, partially with the financial support of Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, will make and distribute 400,000 home care kits to Liberia, to be used by families to tend safely to ailing loved ones.”