Army needs to say “hell no, we won’t go!”
Talk about “mission creep”!!
“provide direct care to Ebola patients”. Let me change that to run the risk of contracting Ebola and brining it home.
I have no idea how many nurses and doctors were involved at the Texas hospital treating Mr. Duncan for the two weeks he was there. having said that a CDC based article says it takes 20 people to treat an Ebola patient in a level 4 hospital. If so that means you have a 10% chance of contracting Ebola while “provide direct care to Ebola patients”.
10% of 3,000 American military personal - that means we are looking at 300 potential infected personal. Personally, I would expect the number to be higher because of the more primitive hospital facilities.
I agree with your position - it is long past time for our leaders from Obama down to the local dog catcher to lead from the front and go out and do the job that they are ordering others to do.