US troops prepare to go to war with Ebola: 101st Airborne receives safety training

Daily Mail ^ | 10/13/14 | Annabel Grossman

[Enlightened1]

Soldiers from 101st Airborne Division took part in a course at Fort Campbell

Families are desperate to know how military can keep their loved ones safe

Ebola is a different threat to what troops are used to in Afghanistan and Iraq

There are already more than 350 US troops on the ground in West Africa

Number is set to grow and could even top current projection of nearly 4,000

[dfwgator]

What could possibly go wrong?

[OKSooner]

What's up with that? Is that guy getting ready to shoot a virus? Or is he expecting a gas attack at his friendly shooting range?

He's got some bare skin showing, btw, he's dead meat in a chemical attack.

[Noamie]

I read that they got 2, half-days of training.

Great.

[Dartman]

The Airborne are precisely the wrong people to send. Back in the 90's, Canada sent our 1st Airborne to Somalia on a humanitarian mission. What ensued was a total disaster. Our Airborne were trained to be our first line of OFFENCE. These soldiers were highly trained killers. They were not nice guys. Why they were sent on a humanitarian mission is a lesson in stupidity. After an unfortunate incident there, the 1st Airborne was totally disbanded. What a waste.

Canada's 1st Airborne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Airborne_Regiment

[Dallas59]

One of em gets it...end of Obola.

[molson209]

Go To War With Ebola , only a Liberal Democrat could say that line

[Oldexpat]

We already are recovering from two cases of “nation building” and can’t see that we don’t have the ability to salvage failed states like Liberia. They are sending our troops there because they can’t refuse the orders like our diplomats, aid workers and CDC people. The LIberian military is undisciplined and unlikely to be reliable if there is civil unrest and our troops will be stuck with the angry crowds.
Once again, Hagle goes along, but I’m sure the advice from the Generals is to not go.

[G Larry]

As noted here:

>http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/10/13/cdc-head-criticized-for-blaming-nurse-ebola-infection-on-protocol-breach/<

The “preparedness” will be totally inadequate.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Eric in the Ozarks:" This is beyond stupid."

If any troops were to go to Ebola countries
they should be "MASH Units",fully medically trained,who volunteer to go, only !

[all the best]

“What is our exit strategy?”
Death.

[rdcbn]

If we send anyone in the Military, it should be our Chem / Bio warfare treatment and control units.

Ebola / Mardburg is the basis for many bio weapons

[Delta Dawn]

If we send anyone in the Military

I was thinking more like the CIC...

[Pollster1]

'Ebola is a different problem set that the division hasn't (faced) before,' said Major General Gary Volesky, who will soon head to Liberia along with soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division.

No "boots on the ground" in Iraq for the war our troops understand. Three thousand pair of boots on the ground in Liberia. Obama is both a moron and evil, and I have trouble telling whether stupidity or malice is his dominant trait.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[xzins]

Air Assault Divisions are not designed for this....not even trained for this. And any training, pre-deployment, is actually a joke.

They can train skiing, but how many will fall down because ‘training doesn’t equal experience’?

Falling down with ebola, though, is a bit different when it comes to standing back up.

[cycjec]

from FReeper “Jim Noble” in another thread:

the attack rate among doctors and nurses is HIGHER
than in the general population, This is an important
clue that must be explained.

Doctors and nurses wear PPE; the general population
doesn’t.

The PPE gets contaminated in routine care. When they
take it off they get a few virions on their skin.

[there’s more]

commenters, including medicos at recent threads at
PJM’s Belmont Club blog concur: “nutherguy” and
“gokart-mozart” on “Paradigm Shift” and “The Ordinary
World”

[cycjec]

“sufficiently advanced stupidity is equivalent to malice”

[The Toll]

Well if anyone knows how to spread around body fluids, it’s these guys.

[Obadiah]

Thanks.