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No group of people on earth are as risk averse as the military. If a nearby star, a hundred light years away, went super nova, some military commander, somewhere, would get asked what he did to prevent or mitigate it! For the military there are no accidents, surprises or excuses. Everything is somebody's fault.

At every link in the chain of command there will be a great degree of anal retentiveness to ensure that the enemy (Ebola) gains no foothold on that soldier's, sailor's, marine's, or airman's watch. If everyone who even looks at West Africa on a map has to cool his heels for 63 days, that's what's going to happen no matter how inconvenient or expensive.