Posted on 10/01/2014 9:51:40 AM PDT by Iron Munro
The commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division and 700 of his troops will head to Liberia in late October as the military steps up its response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.
The "Screaming Eagle" troops from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, will set up a headquarters in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, and will be joined by 700 combat engineers from several commands, the Pentagon said.
Once the troops have arrived, Army Maj. Gen. Gary Volesky, commander of the 101st, will replace Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams, as commander of the U.S. military response to the Ebola epidemic that has hit hardest in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Williams will return to his post as commander of U.S. Army Africa, the Pentagon said.
Aid groups and officials in West Africa have complained about what they called the slow pace of the U.S. and the international community's response to the epidemic. Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, took particular issue with published reports calling the military's efforts thus far "slow-footed."
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We must send Brak Ubama to personally negotiate a truce with the Ebolan leadership!
Calculated corrosion of our defenses
They don’t need Ebola, or anything, to act like savages...they’re Africans.
Marines - all of them
USAF - PJs, CCT, and TACP
Dr. Brantly (Ebola survivor) was asking a congressional committee for more military response than was initially sent.
Every day, he puts a sharp stick in America’s eye.
Whoa........that’s heavy
I was a 12 Bravo (combat engineer) in the army and we never had any training fighting Ebola. We blew $hit up and humped Bailey bridges.
Obama is the dumbest so called president ever. This guy must have a zero IQ.
Exactly.
Ah. Georgia guide stones. Yes.
.
- COMBAT ENGINEERS? WHAAAAAAAAAAAT
*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!
Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!
Bring Out Your Dead
We’re gonna need 
a bigger cart!
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
ping
There was blood upon the risers, there were brains upon the chute,
Intestines were a-dangling from his paratroopers suit,
He was a mess, they picked him up, and poured him from his boots,
He ain’t gonna jump no more.
Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,
Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,
Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,
He ain’t gonna jump no more!
Prophetic?
Active Duty ping.
You must be f**king kidding me! This is NOT what our soldiers signed on for.
How in the hell are they going to stop the virus? I’m so pissed right now that my teeth are clenched.
I hate Obama from the very core of my being.
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