Posted on 10/17/2014 12:14:17 PM PDT by Dave346
As the U.S. military rushes to combat Ebola in West Africa, soldiers are receiving on-the-fly instructions on how to protect themselves against the deadly virus.
American military operations to fight Ebola in Africa are unfolding quickly—forcing the military to come up with some procedures and protocols on the fly.
Soldiers preparing for deployment to West Africa are given just four hours of Ebola-related training before leaving to combat the epidemic. And the first 500 soldiers to arrive have been holing up in Liberian hotels and government facilities while the military builds longer-term infrastructure on the ground.
For soldiers at Fort Campbell and Fort Bragg preparing for their deployments to West Africa, Mobile Training Teams from the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), based out of Fort Detrick, have been tasked with instructing them on Ebola protocols.
A team of two can train as many as 50 personnel over that four-hour time frame, USAMRIID told The Daily Beast. The training includes hands-on instruction on how to put on, remove, and decontaminate personal protective equipment, followed by a practical test to ensure that soldiers understand the procedures.
“All training is tiered to the level of risk each person may encounter,” said USAMRIID spokeswoman Caree Vander Linden.
The training process sounds daunting: One USA Today report described soldiers being told that Ebola “basically causes your body to eat itself from the inside out” and that Ebola is “worse” than what soldiers encountered in Afghanistan. Others reportedly heard that the disease is “catastrophic” and “frightening… with a high fatality rate,” though the chances of contracting it are low.
“I’ll be honest with you,” one soldier told the newspaper. “I’m kind of scared.”
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Posting a chart of the current state of the Army as an argument is missing the point. But that’s fine. I don’t want it ever said that I’m impatient with slow learners. You could post a chart including feminist diversity officers and homosexual acceptance compliance teams, but that wouldn’t make it right for what they’re tasked with to be part of the Army.
See post 56 for another perspective on the issue at hand.
Another of your troll posts that doesn’t make sense.
You just don’t know anything about the military and it’s involvement with infectious disease and biological agents, even just normal knowledge of history and having kept up with the news during your lifetime should have informed you some, instead of leaving you in such total ignorance.
It’s funny that you use the word troll.
Look at the thread here - you have an argument with a few people going on. Hopefully you’ll increase the insults you throw around, as it makes it more entertaining for people reading this.
I didn’t post to you - you posted to me. Alright, fair enough, it’s an open discussion. You disagreed with me initially, but wanted to present it as if nobody could possibly agree with me or understand what I’m saying, but clearly people do. What can I say to that? Your opinion of what we should be doing with our military is not my, or other people’s, opinion of what we should be doing with our military. And if you don’t like the way I move, maybe you shouldn’t have asked me to dance.
You just don’t understand what the military is, all the things that it does, and what it’s mission is in Liberia, and you obviously have no intention of learning that information because it would interfere with your online ‘tude’.
To: Dave346
I’m sure this question must have been asked before, so forgive me for asking it again. But we have a national medical service, complete with uniforms. Why then are we sending soldiers to fight an epidemic disease? Maybe we should send our uniformed national medical service to fight ISIS.
22 posted on 10/17/2014, 1:10:54 PM by OldNewYork
To: OldNewYork
We have a medical service that does large construction projects in foreign lands, and handles large logistics and supply missions?
23 posted on 10/17/2014, 1:18:02 PM by ansel12
We have a medical service that does large construction projects in foreign lands, and handles large logistics and supply missions?
23 posted on 18/10/2014 7:18:02 am by ansel12 To: ansel12
Apparently we do now.
24 posted on 18/10/2014 7:22:36 am by OldNewYork
Not that anyone else can see, what are you talking about?
25 posted on 18/10/2014 7:26:41 am by ansel12
Let's start over. What part didn't you understand? And please, other people that didn't understand what I meant, contact me and I'll try to explain it again as well.
You think that we “have a medical service that does large construction projects in foreign lands, and handles large logistics and supply missions”.
I asked “Not that anyone else can see, what are you talking about?”
I asked “Not that anyone else can see, what are you talking about?”
I think that's been well established.
LOL, so this is how you entertain yourself.
Aren’t you having as much fun?
No, internet trolls don’t amuse me.
That’s a shame then. You should enjoy your work, at least most of the time.
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