Posted on 10/16/2014 12:53:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
resident Obama will sign an executive order as soon as today deploying National Guard troops to Ebola stricken countries in West Africa according to a report from NBC News.
President Barack Obama is expected to issue an executive order Thursday paving the way for the deployment of National Guard forces to Liberia to help contain the Ebola outbreak there, sources told NBC News.
The sources said that eight engineers and logistical specialists from the Guard, both active-duty and reservists, would probably be included in the first deployment. They are expected to help build 17 Ebola treatment centers, with 100 beds apiece. The sources said that no decision had been made.
Fox News' Ed Henry confirmed this afternoon that a draft of the order is circulating through the White House and Pentagon.
A month ago President Obama announced the deployment of thousands of U.S. soldiers to Ebola stricken regions in Africa. The original number of soldiers deployed for the task was 3,000 but the Pentagon has upped that number to 4,000 this week.
At this point it is unclear what National Guard troops will be tasked with doing or how they will be protected from contracting the disease once they arrive. Earlier this month we learned U.S. military soldiers and medical personnel will be handling Ebola infected blood samples.
The U.S. military mission to combat Ebola in West Africa is facing questions about the serious health risks American troops will encounter in heading to the epicenter of the deadly outbreak.
According to officials, a small group of trained military medical technicians on the ground will not be required to make direct contact with patients infected with the Ebola virus. However, they will have to handle infected blood samples, which Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday could be just as dangerous, if not more.
More information on this news will be available this afternoon.
He has a phone, he has a pen and they will have Ebola.
What if he activates them and then decides to keep them here to run “quarantine camps”?
An interim step to implementing martial law.
As if the VA could handle Ebola any better than it did vets with head injuries, brain damage and even just cancer.
The Post-American world. . Never let a crisis go to waste. .
Only Nat’l Guard troops from red states like Texas will be sent.....
Any bets the National Guard units are sent from reliably red states?
I’d bet on the Iowa NG, where the GOP US Senate candidate is a NG unit commander.
Give me a fricking break !!
Red States, silly.
So glad I retired. I would refuse and resign.
Fubo.
I don't either.
Since the GOP can't find the courage to campaign on something so easy as sticking obolacare up the arse of every rat, it is illogical to think they will stand up to obola when they take the senate.
Yep! Just in time for them to miss voting on Nov. 4th.
Exactly how many Americans is he willing to put over there as “Ebola bait” to make sure we suffer an “equal dose” of it here in this Country?
fork that.
why haven’t the black panthers voluteered to go and help? nation of islam?
National Guard? For a non-combat mission? Has this happened before?
I mean, I’ve seen the military sent to Hati, for example, but did the National Guard go, too?
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