Yes - for its own purposes. The military is NOT some UN world health org and has no business being over there
The Army is the organization that has always had an interest and involvement in infectious diseases, and it does work involved in world health.
“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. Since that time, the Defense Department has answered numerous calls for assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO), nongovernmental organizations and ministries of heath and defense, he said.”