“1700 volunteers expressed a willingness to be deployed”
ah ha
and what were these “volunteers” told they’d be doing?
What do you think they were told, that they would be doing construction with the Seabees and Army engineers?
"President Obama has assured Americans that none of the nearly 4,000 U.S. troops heading to Liberia will treat Ebola patients, but 70 uniformed officers of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps will."
"The corps, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, will open a clinic outside the Liberian capital, Monrovia, this weekend and is tasked with treating Liberian doctors and nurses who contract the deadly disease. It is the first time U.S. government personnel have been given that assignment, although all volunteered."