Posted on 09/15/2014 10:23:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The United States government is sending thousands of military troops to the west African nation of Liberia as part of the Obama administration's Ebola virus-response strategy, the White House said late Monday night.
'U.S. Africa Command will set up a Joint Force Command headquartered in Monrovia, Liberia, to provide regional command and control support to U.S. military activities and facilitate coordination with U.S. government and international relief efforts,' a statement from the White House press office said.
'A general from U.S. Army Africa, the Army component of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), will lead this effort, which will involve an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces.'
Liberia is the hardest-hit of the four west African nations that have confirmed Ebola cases, accounting for more than one-half of the fatalities. The others are Sierra Leone, Guinea and, to a lesser extent, Nigeria.
Some of what America's armed personnel will do in Liberia is unclear. The White House said 'many' of them will be stationed at an 'intermediate staging base' where they will supervise the movement of medical staff, supplies and heavy equipment.
AFRICOM already warns its own personnel that they should 'avoid nonessential travel to Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia.'
And the Defense Department is concerned, one Pentagon official told MailOnline, about the public perceptions aroused when American G.I.s patrol ground zero in a disease outbreak that could plunge three or more countries into chaos if it worsens significantly.
Combat soldiers and Marines 'will be on hand and ready for anything,' said the official, who has knowledge of some, but not all, of the Ebola-related planning. 'But hopefully it will be all logistics and hospital-building.'
'The president has ordered us to help, and we're eager to do it,' he said....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The idea is that you quarantine people, and take them down like grass with machine guns if they start walking over the lines.
I wouldn’t take the chance. I would just torch the place.
I was listening to Steve Malzberg’s show yesterday and he was interviewing John Fund. Steve said that he really feared the damage Barry can do with 2+ years left in his term. Fund agreed and said that Barry had plenty more planned, most through executive action. It’s really terrifying to imagine what he he has left in his arsenal. This move, however ,is really dangerous.
Too dangerous. He didn't want to catch anything from the kids at the Southern border either, /S.
It makes a person wonder if this isn’t a test to see how much more crap the American public is willing to tolerate. And unless they are meek, docile, ignorant and dumb up to a point as usual, should they proclaim in no uncertain terms enough is enough, perhaps some one in our government is already entertaining the thought of martial law and prepares to back it up with the DHS.
(Headlines) DHS is Buying More Than A Billion Bullets Plus Thousands Of Guns And Mine-Resistant Armored Vehicles?
Does anyone really think that the sole purpose for the DHS to re-arm to their teeth is to ward of any foreign intruder, when we have a standing army second to none. If you do, perhaps you may be interested in buying a bridge you know where.... Not to mention all the FEMA camps (internment or concentration camps)
For your personal entertainment and “Enjoyment” you may want to Google FEMA armament and then click on pictures.
Rex 84: FEMA’s Blueprint for Martial Law in America | Global ...
www.globalresearch.ca/rex-84-fema-s-blueprint-for-martial.../3010
Very good question
Why not revoke passports to ISIS countries?
Another very good question
We're being set up for a massive culling of our population.
If the threat is indeed as described, then unless Obama's handlers are insanely stupid, that would be the logical conclusion, wouldn't it. I say his handlers because IMO he is far too disconnected to be making these decisions. And his intelligence is far overrated.
It would be interesting to know how many of these "advisers" are connected to the "Mother Earth needs a good plague to cut the population cult". More than a couple I'm betting.
The Army is expert in things like this and always helps with it’s experts and science, but we are already doing that and have done it in every Ebola outbreak going back to the first one in 1976, but that doesn’t mean regular troops, and by the thousands.
“Defense Department personnel are on the ground in West Africa and in U.S. laboratories fighting to control the worst outbreak in the African history of the Ebola virus, which a senior Army infectious disease doctor called a “scourge of mankind.”
Army Colonel James Cummings, a doctor and director of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System in the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, said the battle against the virus since the outbreak began in West Africa in March focuses on trying to stop disease transmission.
“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 heath and defense, he said.
Defense personnel provide a wide array of support to the Ebola-stricken African nations, from logistical help to guides for clinical management of the virus, Cummings said, adding the U.S service members “bring a level of excellence second to none, working in response to host nations and WHO in the most-affected countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia.”
“The U.S. military, and in particular, the Army, has had a longstanding mission in preventing and treating infectious and parasitic diseases in troops, dating to the late 1800s.
The Armed Forces Press Service reported late Friday that military health workers, including an entomologist from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, already are in the affected area providing support ranging from logistical assistance to “clinical management” — assisting in treating affected populations.
“DoD personnel bring a level of excellence second to none, working in response to host nations and WHO in the most-affected countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia,” Army Col. James Cummings, a physician and director of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center told AFPS.
Filoviruses like Ebola have been of interest to the Pentagon since the late 1970s, mainly because Ebola and its fellow viruses have high mortality rates — in the current outbreak, roughly 60 percent to 72 percent of those who have contracted the disease have died — and its stable nature in aerosol make it attractive as a potential biological weapon.
Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have sought to develop a vaccine or treatment for the disease.”
We should reinstate flamethrowers for the troops fighting Ebola .
LOL!!!!
If hundreds of our people are exposed all at once, I doubt very much that there are that many full isolation beds available in this country for them. Evacuating the sick would be a huge problem.
CDC has PUBLISHED a study showing ebola infected pigs could
infect monkeys kept in the same room so it certainly seems to be an airborne infection, regardless of the official info. In any case, there is nothing to stop it from mutating to an airborne disease.
That’s probably pretty close.
If I was in the military I would refuse, and go AWOL!
I’ll help them.
I was listening to Steve Malzberg’s show yesterday and he was interviewing John Fund. Steve said that he really feared the damage Barry can do with 2+ years left in his term. Fund agreed and said that Barry had plenty more planned, most through executive action. It’s really terrifying to imagine what he he has left in his arsenal. This move, however ,is really dangerous.
Obama will become more and more obstinate and dedicated.
What percentage of our military are Medics and Corpsmen? How detrimental to our military will be losing them? Our military loves their docs (as do military parents). Another stab in the heart.
Give your son a big hug for me and you have my prayers, too. From the article...
I thought it was all medics and corpsmen but after searching it is worse...
“Some of what America’s armed personnel will do in Liberia is unclear. The White House said ‘many’ of them will be stationed at an ‘intermediate staging base’ where they will supervise the movement of medical staff, supplies and heavy equipment.
AFRICOM already warns its own personnel that they should ‘avoid nonessential travel to Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia.’
And the Defense Department is concerned, one Pentagon official told MailOnline, about the public perceptions aroused when American G.I.s patrol ground zero in a disease outbreak that could plunge three or more countries into chaos if it worsens significantly.
Combat soldiers and Marines ‘will be on hand and ready for anything,’ said the official, who has knowledge of some, but not all, of the Ebola-related planning. ‘But hopefully it will be all logistics and hospital-building.’
‘The president has ordered us to help, and we’re eager to do it,’ he said. ‘Now it looks like we’re going to be the lead dog, and that’s bound to make a lot of people nervous. It’s understandable.’
‘But no one wants U.S. personnel enforcing someone else’s martial law if things go south and the entire region is at risk.’
NO ONE WANTS U.S. PERSONNEL ENFORCING...MARTIAL LAW
hmmmm.
Also, their hazmat suits transfer the disease. There has to be a better way.
Let’s take a quick reality check on this newest half-baked idea.
With out a pre-deployment immunization program some of those 3,000 troops are going to be infected with Ebola.
Without a large visible armed guard all of the medical supplies sent will disappear long before the reach their destination(s).
Additionally there will have to 24-hr armed guards at each deployed location. otherwise the delivered supplies wille stolen.
Finally, every American deployed will be an easy target for Islamic militia/terrorists operating in Liberia and adjacent countries.
My bottom line; 3,000 is too small to do the mission, to protect itself and too large to evacuate quickly.
Does any other “old-fart” remember how Vietnam spun up?
Thank you for the information,was not aware of any of this.
Have any idea of the purpose for the 3000 line troops?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Stick with your day job. So many levels of error in that short statement I can't count all of them.
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