Posted on 10/08/2014 12:49:45 PM PDT by 11th_VA
The Pentagon is deploying 100 troops from a special Marine response force to West Africa to help fight the Ebola outbreak.
"These personnel will arrive in Senegal tonight and in Liberia tomorrow," said Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby at a briefing on Wednesday.
The 100 troops — mostly Marines, along with some Navy corpsmen — are part of a force of up to 3,600 U.S. troops that could deploy to West Africa to help efforts to stem the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. The outbreak has so far claimed more than 3,000 lives and could infect 1.4 million more.
So far, about 350 troops are on the ground now, running laboratories, setting up treatment facilities, training healthcare workers and assisting with logistics.
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Actually no I’m not looking for a crack to make. I don’t have a bone to pick with you or anybody else on this forum only with the people who are wrecking everything.
I honestly thought you were in the military and headed over there.
That’s how you sound but I did wonder if you were using we in the sense of we Americans.
Sorry then, but of course I meant we, America.
If the Ebola virus does not respond to .50 cal rounds, I don’t see what good the Marine presence is going to do.
“Infect the USMC: Check.”
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Marines headed to Africa to fight Ebola outbreak, ansel12 wrote:
I said we, America, we are the ones that tell the military where to go and what to do.
“”We aren’t sending 3,000 CBRN military people because that isn’t the mission.””
“”We are using engineers and Seabees, and supply and aviation logistics people, we are building 17 treatment centers of 100 beds apiece, and a 25 bed hospital for the health care workers to be treated in, and will be moving great amounts of supplies and materials.””
Since when is an airborne unit composed of seabees and engineers ?
Active Duty ping.
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...
First, why do you repeat the thread information in your post?
Second, when I posted “We aren’t sending 3,000 CBRN military people because that isn’t the mission.
Most of this is about construction and logistics and moving supplies, and teaching classes to produce up to 500 native medical helpers a week.”
“We are using engineers and Seabees, and supply and aviation logistics people, we are building 17 treatment centers of 100 beds apiece, and a 25 bed hospital for the health care workers to be treated in, and will be moving great amounts of supplies and materials.”
What do you think that I meant? Do you think that I was excluding all others, or that the headquarters element coordinating the operation could not be from the Air Assault Division, the 101st, which hasn’t actually been an Airborne Division since 1968, and which is sending 700?
First, why do you repeat the thread information in your post?
Because when the reply post appears. The subject of the reply such as your question would be known to the origin of you the poster but not to others reading comments when this reply subsequently appears.
As far as defending the regime in sending men and material into Liberia to set up hospitalization system and infastructure to service this is concerned. Liberia should have been helped long ago but those going there now under these serious conditions Liberia is in. Should be vounteers and have the background and knowledge in that type of work.
The 101st is a combat unit. They have no business being dumped into a into a place just because it sounds good where there isn’t combat doing work done by the Army Corps of Engineers. Where there being a good possibility of some of them contracting a deadly infectious disease and bringing it home.
No, the United States military should not be asking for “volunteers”, they do what they always do, send the appropriate units to do the portion of the mission they are sent to do, like the 700 man element from the 101st.
The 101st soldiers are going to be the Headquarters element
The 101st will supply 700 soldiers to what will be 3 to 4 thousand.
“About 300 of the troops from the 101st Airborne will come from the division headquarters, and they will serve as the Joint Force Command for the mission.”
“A 101st Airborne press release issued Tuesday evening stated the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Headquarters, Fort Campbell, will deploy as the Joint Force Command for Operation United Assistance in Monrovia, Liberia.
“Operation United Assistance is a critical mission,” said Maj. Gen. Gary J. Volesky, commander of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). “We will coordinate all of the Department of Defense resources in Liberia to support USAID and the government of Liberia to contain the Ebola virus and ultimately save lives.”
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