Some troops might go AWOL over this.
Ya know.. I never thought I’d see the day I’d say this..
I can’t blame them.
You can kinda predict the scenario to play out. About six weeks after arrival in the “E-Zone”...the stringent code of staying “clean” is forgotten one day by Private Snuffy. A week later, he’s got a fever and put into the US Army’s quarantine program. They decide to whisk Private Snuffy to some stateside Army post for “better care”.
A week passes, and a friend of Private Snuffy has same symptoms. He is flown out on a military cargo plane. Two weeks will pass, and the crew members of the cargo plane report a couple of them have the fever. The Air Force has issues because pilots and maintenance crews now demand maximum decontamination of all aircraft flown back from a e-zone site.
After a year, the DoD leadership will only say that there is a problem, but won’t admit that roughly 500 military troops have been taken down by the disease, with a twenty-percent death rate (which they will seem proud that it’s not worse than that).
Around eighteen months into the deployments, DoD now has members of the medical community in its ranks who are vocal about a bad future, and getting out at high rates. Bonuses are offered into the tens of thousands to keep each of them in for another four years.
The Air Force at the one-year point admits that they’ve had to discipline five pilots because they refused to fly into a e-zone site. The US Navy is ordered to place it’s medical ship along the coast and act as a quarantine site for all US military personnel, instead of bringing them back to the states.
Yikes, my son is Special Forces. What kind of troops will the send, MPs?
By design.