I am not seeing or hearing anything about US Army Chemical Corps equipment for this mission.
The Ebola Fomite threat is a straight forward NBC threat that Chemical Corps decontamination equipment — medicalese would be “terminal clean” — that should see a Chemical Decontamination platoon involved.
This has the feel of the US Army's 1999 Kosovo Task Force Hawk AH-64 Attack helicopter deployment for the Clinton Administration.
The US Army slow rolled that deployment, not wanting to get involved, with both SACEUR, AKA General Wesley Clark, and the Clinton Administration had to fight with both the Department of the Army and the Joint Chiefs to make it happen.
Without that terminal clean/decontamincation capability, this medical intervention is a gesture that will get several hundred medical troopers sick with Ebola.
If anyone wants to watch the hearing about the Ebola Threat that was live on C-Span today, here is the link:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?321494-1/hearing-ebola-threat-west-africa
It is 3 hours long, but good. (OK, I muted Patty Murray.) One thing that made me “rewind” and listen again, was (during the second panel) Senator Burr said that based on their (the committee’s) information, the RO was 5-20. Yowza!! That would explain the dramatic rise of numbers in the various models. The panel confirmed that the numbers being “reported” are only the numbers that are actually making it into the clinics, the confirmed cases are only the ones that made it to the lab, so the reality is the numbers are much, much worse. (As many have been saying for a while)
At one point during the first panel, Senator Burr was asking Dr. Anthony Fauci about taxis being the latest transmission tool, and he wanted to know how long the virus remained infectious on the seat of a taxi. Dr. Fauci said they don’t know and turned it into an answer about dead bodies, which wasn’t what Senator Burr asked. Also the doctor was asked if he thought that Ebola might get out of West Africa and become a pandemic, and he flatly said, “No.” He referred to the conditions of Africa, with virtually no health care whatsoever, and poo-poohed the threat of it getting out of Africa.