Posted on 10/01/2014 9:51:40 AM PDT by Iron Munro
The commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division and 700 of his troops will head to Liberia in late October as the military steps up its response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.
The "Screaming Eagle" troops from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, will set up a headquarters in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, and will be joined by 700 combat engineers from several commands, the Pentagon said.
Once the troops have arrived, Army Maj. Gen. Gary Volesky, commander of the 101st, will replace Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams, as commander of the U.S. military response to the Ebola epidemic that has hit hardest in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Williams will return to his post as commander of U.S. Army Africa, the Pentagon said.
Aid groups and officials in West Africa have complained about what they called the slow pace of the U.S. and the international community's response to the epidemic. Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, took particular issue with published reports calling the military's efforts thus far "slow-footed."
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Who will he send to Dallas?
Yes. And Obola also knows it is sexual transmitted
by the survivors.
Obola-the-Undocumented is treasonous scum
with apology to scum.
More Ebola vectors aimed at America.
Thanks, 0bola!
If so, I hope they return the favor.
“Airborne”....hmmmm...
Not the moniker the CDC would like to see associated w Ebola...
GMTA.
Perhaps he should send ACORN, along with Clinton’s AmeriKorps?
Are you kidding me!
Really. I would think engineers, machinists, mechanics and technicians would be best suited for this work.
More of the infected.
The disease carrying illegals he let across the border didn't get the job done.
He never liked Texas anyway.
Wow, ...whose side are we on, the Liberians, or the Ebolans?
The only thing that will work on Ebola is naphalm and our military stopped using it years ago, so why are we sending troops?
What training do Airborne troops get on contagious diseases?
Getting closer...
KYPD
It is past time for obola to make a personal trip to the 3 afrikan country triad for a close personal assessment of the problem. A lot of hospital visits and shaking hands with his afrikan bretheren would be seen as a powerful positive step. He is the CIC and should lead from the front, not the rear to reassure his troops he is 100% with them.
For the ‘slow-footed’ comment in the story....I’m just curious, and maybe the leadership of the Pentagon wonder about this too....what exactly do they think this will turn into?
You throw 3,000 guys into some Ebola zone. Three weeks into this...they complain that their base camp is being robbed on a daily basis...that the locals aren’t helpful to anyone...and the logistical arm of support isn’t working (half the team is doing non-Ebola work to keep the unit operational).
A month into the episode....some Private Snuffy comes down with Ebola and gets put on a flight to Landstuhl. By third month, at least six guys have been evacuated out of the zone.
The commander will have asked for another 3,000 men by the sixth month and admit that they need mass burials handled by a bulldozer crew and admit that nothing is slowing down the episode, although the survival rate has climbed to fifty percent (mostly those who got into treatment early).
And at the end of 365 days? Another crew? The end point? Non-existing.
Gives new meaning to the phrase “fearless men who jump and die”, doesn’t it?
[I know, I know, that song is about the Green Berets...]
Ya think DoD will come up with a new medal for this ‘expeditionary’ force?
A Screaming Eagle Red Ribbon with crossed Dual IVs and a respirator mask Patch on a skull?
Secure our nation first!!
I think I have some in the shed out in back of my house. It’s theirs for the asking if they promise to use it properly.
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