Posted on 10/07/2014 9:50:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Only a small number of highly trained U.S. troops among the thousands bound for West Africa will have direct contact with potential Ebola patients, military leaders said Tuesday. Those soldiers will be posted at testing labs to help identify people showing Ebola-like symptoms. They “meet the highest level of standards” and are already trained to deal with major crises, including nuclear disasters, said U.S. Army Gen. David Rodriguez, the commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM).
Rodriguez also pledged during a Pentagon news conference that the 4,000 service members deployed to the ravaged region will be kept safe — and won’t be a threat when they return home. The military is using a combination of redeployment training, strict protocols and “careful reintegration” back into the U.S. to protect these troops. “I am confident we can ensure our service members’ safety and the safety of the American people,” Rodriguez said.
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...and if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
What BS
I hope someone like Ted Cruz will call to bring these troops back.
Obama is such a POS> let him send his wife over to help
we should’ve went against isis instead... at least you can shoot back.
American troops in Liberia will come in direct contact with infected... Developing...per Drudge in red.
“Obungler the evil” is trying to get them killed and as they die they will be replaced until they are decimated! He is at war with us.
Ha! beat me to it!
So it is true, they will get infected........horrible just horrible.
They were equipped with special made ebola killing ammunition. Whole plane loads of ammunition to kill all the ebolas were sent. The ammunition kills only the ebolas. No human hosts of ebola will be harmed.
How the HELL do they know that?
They DON'T. What BS.
What idiot would believe this spew, given the track record of this adminstration? If they told me the sun came up in the east, I have to wait for the dawn.
of course their personal protections will exceed those of the WHO and other medical professionals whose workers have been infected and died - over 200 to date- and some with no awareness)or a blackout of information) about how they got infected despite following strict protocols against known (or admitted) transmission means
right?
Is this the Pentagon which was attacked by al Qaeda on 911,
and now arms al Qaeda, under the whip of
the undocumented Islamist-terrorist Obola?
Hire some of the kids from Ferguson...Pay them $20 an hour. I don't care...but don't use our soldiers to satisfy your whims.
Bring them home and put them on the border where they can do some real good.
And each family will save $2,500 a year in insurance premiums!
How dare they? Obama lied again. He said they were just building hospitals.
We have Ebola now in America thanks to your lax visa restrictions. Now no one will want US troops.
I translated this from BS-speak to English.
It says:
"Troops are screwed."
Sending in troops to secure all borders and airports before announcing exit controls for all of Liberia...oh wrong year/president
Phew! What a relief! Knowing that will help me sleep better tonight.
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