Actually the Army has been at this since the 1800s.
An operation of 3,000 Gis is hardly an operation that is huge in scope, and i don’t know what you call a “hitch”, or why you think we can conduct operations like this without hitches.
Being so terrified of disease that we won’t even show up would prove that bio is our achilles heel.
In the age of terrorism and biological warfare, and total global mobility of even the world’s peasant classes, our military BETTER be able to pull off a peacetime mission like this.
I just haven’t met any former GI’s that thought our Army was close to infallible.
I think that 3,000 personnel anywhere means that many more than these will be going in and out of Liberia, such as military and civilians (Press, Politicians, and Contractors) that are not subject to the purview of USAMRIID.
Okay I’m a idiot so you don’t need to reply in that vein.