Posted on 10/13/2014 5:15:47 AM PDT by xzins
Yours is 2 Oct. Mine is 9 Oct
Is Colonel James Cummings related to CDC Director Frieden?
LOL, yes, and mine is totally accurate.
Look at your own source. “””At least 700 members of the division will deploy to Liberia starting next week as part of the U.S. military’s 4,000-soldier humanitarian mission, which is expected to last up to a year and is aimed at building 17 100-bed Ebola care centers and training hundreds of health care workers.””
“”The soldiers, with specialties in areas such as combat hospitals, aviation, logistics, transportation and engineering, will not be providing direct treatment or having contact with Ebola patients, so the risk is considered to be low, said Lt. Col. Brian DeSantis, the 101st Airborne’s spokesman.””
“We had a large footprint in Africa,” Cummings said of the Defense Department’s response to the first Ebola cases reported in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire.
That makes you want to go off on the guy?
Oh my gosh, you want the military to not do bio CBRN training and get updated before deploying to Liberia?
How about you reach inside of yourself and try to be more honest, and quit bending so many honesty rules in an attempt to win whatever you are trying to win?
What do you think the mask means?
Everyone who cared for him? That includes America right?
You just can’t be serious, you really want to claim that you thought that there should be no CBRN refresher training before going to Liberia?
Actually, you chose to highlight the above piece of that article....about transporation, engineer, etc., soldiers.
Having been the 101st's 326 engineer battalion chaplain once upon a time, I seem to remember things like 'engineer raids', bangalor torpedoes, demolition, and flanking movements. In other words, "combat" engineers are not what most people think of when they think of engineers. Do they build air strips, bridges, and buildings. Sure. But they also fight, because the 'combat' part of 'combat engineer' is the most relevant part. So, when the rubber meets the road, what do combat engineers do? Answer: whatever they're told to do. And they're training in full hazard because they know that's gonna happen. And it's NOT what they're trained to do: which is the point I've been making that for some reason you have had a compulsion to attack repeatedly and unjustifiably. Besides, I think I know these troops better than you do. Feel free to disavow me of that sentiment.
They are going to do what they ARE trained for and of course they are getting a refresher in CBRN, they won’t be working in it.
What units are those 700 engineers from? They aren’t from the 101st.
Would you go back to your first claims and admit that the 101st Airborne Division is not being sent to Liberia, and that these troops are not going to fill in as medical people but will be doing what they do?
As an ex Chaplin you sure aren’t coming off as open and honest, instead it is like talking to Bill Clinton, you just keep slip sliding around and throwing in whatever you can to say something that isn’t even clear.
If you don’t want American military sent over, then why don’t you just say so and leave it at your opinion, why all this dishonesty and slipperiness?
Also why the focus only on the 101st people, why not the Marines and the Navy and the Air Force?
If that nurse was allowed to continue working while in a state of fatigue, well, there is your “breach of protocol”.
There have been hospitals in West Africa that have shut down because their staff is................. Dead. Are Freiden and Fauci pretending they don’t know this? Do they think we don’t know this?
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
Ansel wrote: "What units are those 700 engineers from? They aren’t from the 101st." Found at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3214463/posts?page=173#173
Obviously, the facts contradict you.
And 700 engineers can easily be found in a division's own integral engineer battalion, and we haven't even discussed their co-located corps engineer battalion asset.
Those familiar with the military know that in an engineer battalion, the combat engineers are called engineers. Perhaps you think they're looking for engineering degrees from MIT to go to Liberia to raise plywood/pole buildings, but let me assure you that isn't the case.
And, so far as being able to back up claims, your contribution of "will be doing what they do" is so precise in its specificity that one has to marvel at the knowledge base behind it.
Feel free to have the last word. It will be another inane ad hominem.
The "professionals" we flew back to America for treatment knew what they were doing too yet they still caught the disease.
Closing the barn door discriminates against cows.
End segregation now!
No disease is illegal!
Open borders leads to too many boarders.
The 101st is NOT going as a Division, but only 700 of them are going, and they are going to be running the headquarters element for the operation NOT doing medical, except for their own medical people, who will not be involved in treating Ebola infected Africans, in other words doing what they do, and those 700 engineers going with them are NOT from the 101st.
I asked you what units they are from hoping that searching for that information would force you to confront some of what you have been struggling to spread.
“”About 1,400 soldiers, including 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) troops, will head to Liberia in October to help support the fight against the Ebola virus that is spreading across West Africa, a Pentagon official said Tuesday.
The Army’s 101st Airborne Division, based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, will provide about 700 of those soldiers, while ^^*the other 700 will be mostly combat engineers culled from Army units across the force*^^, Defense Department spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby told reporters.””
“”WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Sept. 30, 2014) — The headquarters of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, will deploy to Monrovia, Liberia, as the Joint Force Command for Operation United Assistance.
About 700 Soldiers will arrive sometime in late October, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said at a Pentagon news conference today.
Soldiers from the 101st Sustainment Brigade are part of the deploying number, according to a division spokesman. In addition, he said elements of the 86th Combat Support Hospital are also preparing to deploy from Fort Campbell.
Also in late October, the Army will deploy another 700 Soldiers from various engineering units throughout the U.S. to supervise the construction of Ebola treatment units, conduct site surveys and provide engineering expertise.””
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