Posted on 10/09/2014 3:36:36 PM PDT by Prospero
Airmen from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., are among the U.S. service members joining efforts to stem the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the Air Force said Wednesday.
Aircrew and maintenance personnel from JBLM’s 62nd Airlift Wing have been involved with the humanitarian assistance mission, said a spokesman for the active-duty wing. They are not in direct contact with Ebola patients, but they have been delivering supplies and troops to support the humanitarian mission in Liberia and Senegal.
At this stage, military personnel in Liberia are building 18 Ebola treatment facilities and preparing infrastructure for the arrival of American troops and aid workers, according to the Defense Department.
About 4,000 U.S. military personnel could be deployed to West Africa in coming months. Most of them are expected to come from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky.
So far, the Army has not announced any deployment orders for ground troops at JBLM that would send local soldiers to Liberia.
(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...
Looks like Seattle and Tacoma area hospitals should get ready for Ebola patients.
Maybe they’ll drop the patients off at Fairchild AFB for SERE training.
Drop them from FL35
That use of the term JOINT BASE pi$$e$ me off. It was, and still is, in my opinion a friggin’ Air Force Base. USAF became a separate service in 1947. Maybe by “joint base’ they mean its a place where you can have a doobie?
Ahem!
(COUGH COUGH)
I was stationed there when it was called Fort Lewis. It's an Army base.
(Let's not do the Certs or Miller Lite commercials here.)
Going to Africa to help our military contract ebola is not a legitimate use of our armed forces.
You accidentally wrote “It’s an Army base.”. You should have continued using the past tense.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Active Duty ping.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
The bases are the taxpayers and you need to read some modern doctrine! Lol
All our Combatant Commands are joint and they include elements from every service under a unified Command. It has worked out pretty well,despite the resistance.
Thanks for the ping!
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