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.
You forgot about those who rotate back home and kissed their kids and had a night of welcome back with their sweeties.
Now you know the loyalties of the Pentagon