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U.S. Troops Fighting Ebola in Africa Will Be Safe: Pentagon
NBC News ^ | October 7, 2014 | by Erik Ortiz

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: africom; bhoafrica; bhodod; ebola; military; pentagon
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To: GOPJ

Here’s a blurb of the story:

U.S. Troops Battling Ebola Get Off to Slow Start in Africa

DREW HINSHAW and BETSY MCKAY
Wall St Journal
September 29, 2014

The American military effort against history’s deadliest Ebola outbreak is taking shape in West Africa, but concerns are mounting that the pace isn’t fast enough to check a virus that is spreading at a terrifying clip.

On Saturday, a handful of troops from the Navy’s 133rd Mobile Construction Battalion led a bulldozer through thigh-high grass outside Liberia’s main airport, bottles of hand sanitizer dangling from their belt loops.

They had been digging a parking lot in the East African nation of Djibouti....


81 posted on 10/07/2014 3:29:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ansel12

Yes I did. Did you answer Yes or No?


82 posted on 10/07/2014 7:35:06 PM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
On Saturday, a handful of troops from the Navy’s 133rd Mobile Construction Battalion led a bulldozer through thigh-high grass outside Liberia’s main airport, bottles of hand sanitizer dangling from their belt loops. They had been digging a parking lot in the East African nation of Djibouti....

If Obama and his Administration want to be 'citizens of the world' rather than Americans they need to refund 97% of their pay.. AND collect that portion from 'the world'. The United States is 3% of the world's population... that's all we owe these puffed up blowhards...

It a disgrace ...

83 posted on 10/07/2014 7:35:26 PM PDT by GOPJ ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert Camus)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

84 posted on 10/07/2014 7:38:09 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: itsahoot

I’m not here to answer people’s questions, but I wonder if you understood post 29, when you read it.

If you had you wouldn’t feel the compulsion to keep asking the question, and a very strange question at that, even if you hadn’t read post 29.


85 posted on 10/07/2014 7:44:03 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: TexasRepublic
What does a grunt know about fighting germs???

You are taking 'fighting germs' way too literally. It is mostly military engineers constructing hospital facilities.

86 posted on 10/07/2014 7:48:07 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: ansel12
I’m not here to answer people’s questions,

Ok then I will just assume the answer would negate your argument.

87 posted on 10/08/2014 11:15:09 AM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: itsahoot

Why don’t you read post 85, or just have read post 29, before you ever even posted to me.

Why are you working so hard to keep yourself in the dark, is it because your childish remarks would sound even silly to yourself if you knew how ridiculous you are working at being?

You are spending days, playing at being childlike and troll like.


88 posted on 10/08/2014 11:51:25 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12
You are spending days, playing at being childlike and troll like.

So is it Yes or No?

I have no dog in this fight, but avoiding direct questions, that have a yes or no answer, make you look like a weasel word politician.

89 posted on 10/08/2014 3:37:03 PM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: itsahoot

Evidently you cannot even see the answer when you read it.


90 posted on 10/08/2014 3:51:22 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12
Evidently you cannot even see the answer when you read it.

Was it Yes or No? Pick one.


91 posted on 10/09/2014 12:11:18 AM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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