Posted on 10/09/2014 6:11:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Gov. Perry Visits Troops Deploying to West Africa in Fight against Ebola
More than 500 troops from the 36th Engineer Brigade, 1st Medical Brigade and 85th Civil Affairs Brigade stationed at Ft. Hood are expected to deploy to Liberia by the end of this month. Approximately 200 troops stationed at Ft. Bliss, but assigned to aviation units at Ft. Hood, will also deploy. Their mission will be constructing facilities to be used in the housing and care of Ebola patients. The troops will not have contact with Ebola patients. The servicemen and women from Ft. Hood are part of a larger deployment recently announced by the Department of Defense that will send more than 3,000 troops to West Africa. Read more... http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/20208/
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The guys would keep better focused on their mission if they knew their families back home were protected.
He won’t secure the border, either.
Mr. Obama...Why troops from Texas?? Oh nevermind. Election strategy??
Obama is scum.
Gov Perry. Tell them do not go. There is evil in this mission. God help us.
Ping
Quite often I think Freepers are more informed than politicians.
Yep.
I said at the beginning that the TX national-guard mission was a “for display purposes only” mission.
What’s really irksome is when you read the TX constitution the authority for the governor to use military force to protect against invasion is explicit — keep that in mind, that the governors have the FULL authority to forcibly seal their borders against foreign invaders the next time someone tells you that the Republicans are better than the Democrats.
> Quite often I think Freepers are more informed than politicians.
Heh — Isn’t that a bit of a low standard?
Put down the tin foil, Ft. Hood is the home of the Army Medical Command.
Let Africa burn with ebola, the decrease in population will make it easier for Darwin's observations to prove true.
I can only hope that our troops don't import pestilence to their families upon returning home.
Yes he does. But he's a liberal idiot so he can't help it.
Active Duty ping.
I liked Perry the last time around, but I thought he was simply not very well spoken and a bad campaigner and thus didn’t have much of a chance...which turned out to be true. This time, however, it looks like he’s turned into Jimmy Carter redux.
Bump.
This is bs.
Really? the Michigan NG, has been the full-on contact in Liberia, since the early ‘80s. There is no Army Medical Command, you jack-n-apes.
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