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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Aren’t you the very poster who insisted our guys were there to build structures only and would have NO exposure to ebola patients? And anyone who thought they’d be involved in treating or around ebola patients was posting tinfoil nonsense?
Let me go find your posting history...
Scary that that’s exactly our first thought....with EVERYTHING coming from this *admin*.
Thanks, 0bola!
M. A. !!!
No, that isn’t me, if anyone has fit that fake sounding little package you just described.
What is your point in posting that little tirade and those phony accusations, what are you disagreeing with in post 38?
““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.”
If Rodriguez was a true patriot instead of a politician looking out for his own retirement, he’d resign in protest.
Do you think we will have troops who get this? Yes or no.
are already trained to deal with major crises.........THEY AIN’T TRAINED FOR 1000 AFRICANS RUNNING AT THEM THROWING BAGS OF VOMIT AND FECES.
LOL, do you have something specific in one of my posts that you disagree with, or are you spinning out of control into hysteria and rage at nothing that I have posted?
Wow.
Do. you. think. any. of. our. troops. will. get. infected.
?
So you’re OK with sending our troops to an ebola hot zone to get infected like every other aid organization that’s gone there.
See post 50, is your hysteria leading you to playing games and ignoring our actual posts?
Do you mean intentionally or unintentionally?
that’s all the special gear they gave them. freaking hand gel. makes you totally trust every word out of their mouths on this, or anything else.
Is that true? All they got was hand gel?? OMG - have you got a link?
So you’re OK with our 101st having direct exposure and contact in a ebola hot zone, knowing what it would do to our combat readiness as a nation if they were essentially shut down with only a handful of cases + primary contacts quarantined.
Gotcha.
Wow - the EXACT people we would need to help Americans if the pandemic hits hard here... what a coincidence...
If a soldier is exposed to Ebola, he or she will be flown back to the United States for treatment
A complete 180 in a few sentences.
Does The Ebolas have their flag like Isis does?
If you have valid points or disagreement with our posts and are sane, then why do you keep making up fake posts and positions for us?
Why the dishonesty and crazy claims and phrasing?
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