Posted on 09/15/2014 10:23:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The United States government is sending thousands of military troops to the west African nation of Liberia as part of the Obama administration's Ebola virus-response strategy, the White House said late Monday night.
'U.S. Africa Command will set up a Joint Force Command headquartered in Monrovia, Liberia, to provide regional command and control support to U.S. military activities and facilitate coordination with U.S. government and international relief efforts,' a statement from the White House press office said.
'A general from U.S. Army Africa, the Army component of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), will lead this effort, which will involve an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces.'
Liberia is the hardest-hit of the four west African nations that have confirmed Ebola cases, accounting for more than one-half of the fatalities. The others are Sierra Leone, Guinea and, to a lesser extent, Nigeria.
Some of what America's armed personnel will do in Liberia is unclear. The White House said 'many' of them will be stationed at an 'intermediate staging base' where they will supervise the movement of medical staff, supplies and heavy equipment.
AFRICOM already warns its own personnel that they should 'avoid nonessential travel to Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia.'
And the Defense Department is concerned, one Pentagon official told MailOnline, about the public perceptions aroused when American G.I.s patrol ground zero in a disease outbreak that could plunge three or more countries into chaos if it worsens significantly.
Combat soldiers and Marines 'will be on hand and ready for anything,' said the official, who has knowledge of some, but not all, of the Ebola-related planning. 'But hopefully it will be all logistics and hospital-building.'
'The president has ordered us to help, and we're eager to do it,' he said....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
WTH!?
So if our people contract are we shipping them back stateside? 3000 troops coming home with the virus for treatment? What a HUGE risk to our own population!
Or we just leave them over there to die!?
CLOSE DOWN THE F’ING BORDERS ALREADY!
About six months of infectiousness in survivors.
It strikes me as normal for an evil muslim. Hate, evil and insanity do not always walk hand in hand, but do very often desire the same result.
Ya know.. I never thought I’d see the day I’d say this..
I can’t blame them.
How about sending 3,000 community organizers?
Ya know.. I never thought I’d see the day I’d say this..
I can’t blame them.
I never thought I’d say this....
I might harbor/help some of them.
Follow the link for the projection report from someone qualified to do that kind of work. See the tables. They’re easy to read, and I’m sure that you’ll find the information interesting.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3204322/posts
That SOB sending our military where he would NEVER go....I am just sick about this....
If I was in the military I would refuse, and go AWOL!
You can kinda predict the scenario to play out. About six weeks after arrival in the “E-Zone”...the stringent code of staying “clean” is forgotten one day by Private Snuffy. A week later, he’s got a fever and put into the US Army’s quarantine program. They decide to whisk Private Snuffy to some stateside Army post for “better care”.
A week passes, and a friend of Private Snuffy has same symptoms. He is flown out on a military cargo plane. Two weeks will pass, and the crew members of the cargo plane report a couple of them have the fever. The Air Force has issues because pilots and maintenance crews now demand maximum decontamination of all aircraft flown back from a e-zone site.
After a year, the DoD leadership will only say that there is a problem, but won’t admit that roughly 500 military troops have been taken down by the disease, with a twenty-percent death rate (which they will seem proud that it’s not worse than that).
Around eighteen months into the deployments, DoD now has members of the medical community in its ranks who are vocal about a bad future, and getting out at high rates. Bonuses are offered into the tens of thousands to keep each of them in for another four years.
The Air Force at the one-year point admits that they’ve had to discipline five pilots because they refused to fly into a e-zone site. The US Navy is ordered to place it’s medical ship along the coast and act as a quarantine site for all US military personnel, instead of bringing them back to the states.
Africa?
In MOPP-4?!!!!!
Expect massive numbers of dehydration and heat stroke cases amongst American G.I.s during the first week!
And it will only get worse from there.
What does Obama expect soldiers to do?
Butt stroke Ebola?!!!!!
If he’s a true leader, he’ll shake hands and hug each and every one of these troops on their way home. You know. Congratulate them for a job well done.
It really seems like anyone with some sort of authority is also insane, including the electorate of America very sadly.
America seems Hell bent on destroying herself, and I think she is going to succeed.
Obama, the Islamist, is trying to get rid of the military so that they are unable to remove him from office.
The numbers familyop presents are a simple mathematical projection over time and as such are not useful more then a few weeks out. There are a number of factors that will limit/slow the spread of Ebola.
What could possibly go wrong in a country where there are a lot of Muslims who have Ebola who hate America?
Sending them to Liberia?! What about sending them to our border to keep Isis out!!!
You are awarded the Post of the Month.
That’s pretty scary stuff at the link you provided.
Time to ring the phones off the hook of your reps in Congress
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