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September 20, 2014
U.S. troops arrive in Liberia this weekend to start anti-Ebola mission
U.S. troops arrive in Liberia this weekend to start anti-Ebola mission
U.S. troops will arrive in Liberia’s capital this weekend to set up a headquarters and begin evaluating where to build treatment centers to help fight the deadly Ebola virus, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said Friday.
Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams, U.S. Army commander in Africa, arrived Wednesday in Monrovia to lead the six-month effort, Kirby said. President Obama has pledged 3,000 U.S. troops to help west Africans fight the virus and the Pentagon has asked Congress to shift $1 billion in funding from the Army’s budget to pay for it.
The White House has said the troops will set up 17 treatment centers around Liberia and help train African health workers to fight the disease. They will not treat patients directly, Kirby told reporters Friday.
“There’s no intention right now that they will be interacting with patients,” he said.
Kirby said troops dispatched to Liberia will have the training and safety equipment they need to protect themselves from the disease, which has a fatality rate of about 50 percent, according to the World Health Organization. Ebola can be transmitted only through direct human contact.
“We’re clear-eyed about the risk that we’re incurring,” he said. “We get paid to deal in risk and to manage that and to mitigate it as best as we can.”
If any U.S. troops contract the virus, “we’ll do everything we can to take care of them,” Kirby said.
Wild Thing's comment.............
If any U.S. troops contract the virus, “we’ll do everything we can to take care of them,” Kirby said.........oh you mean like how our troops were treated from Agent Orange?????
Posted by Wild Thing at September 20, 2014 12:55 AM
Comments
What leads to more death: Obamacare or Ebola? In 44 days WE THE PEOPLE will decide!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at September 20, 2014 05:43 AM
What leads to more death: Obamacare or Ebola? In 44 days WE vote!!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at September 20, 2014 05:47 AM
“We’re clear-eyed about the risk that we’re incurring,” he said. “We get paid to deal in risk and to manage that and to mitigate it as best as we can.” If any U.S. troops contract the virus, “we’ll do everything we can to take care of them,” Kirby said.
Get paid to deal in risk? BS!!! The risk is war, not disease. Where are our military leaders? Why aren't they objecting to this? The stinking admiral already said there's a chance the troops could contact the virus. This has nothing to do with protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States.
Posted by: BobF at September 20, 2014 10:03 AM
Where are the Chinese troops, the Venezualian troops, the Indonesian troops, the Mexican troops, etc. etc.? Is American again going to shoulder the burden by sending it's military to help out a bunch of third worlders that are attacked by deadly highly infectious disease due to their own lack of hygiene?
This Adm Kirby(survived obama's purges) shoud be ashore/on the ground with the most exposed of the troops.
Posted by: TomR,armed in Texas at September 20, 2014 12:42 PM
These military martyrs will have Obolacare and Obamacare and VA care.... EH? !!!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at September 21, 2014 09:29 AM
