Has the US sent troops to fight a disease before?
How would you like to be the troops selected for this “mission”?
Actually, that’s a great question. I’m going to look into that right now.
“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 health and defense, he said.
See posts 16 and 17. This is irresponsible reporting. They won’t be sending in Joes.
How would you like to be one of our troops and assigned any mission?
This guy would betray you faster than you can say ‘Help!’
After Benghazi, no way...
How would you like to be the troops selected for this “mission”?...I would be discharged Dishonorably, I’m afraid.
In the past we have always helped out mostly through the CDC sending medical experts; doctors, etc. Not 3,000 troops.
It looks like we are going to build a 25 bed Ebola unit for $22 million. So about a million a bed. Such a deal! (sarc) Our guys are also supposed to deliver sanitation kits to 400,000 households which is a good idea except I would think they would be highly at risk of getting exposed. You would think the US could deliver the kits and then the Liberian authorities could deliver house to house. Why do our guys have to do it?