{"id":55246,"date":"2014-09-17T09:26:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T13:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55246"},"modified":"2014-09-17T09:11:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T13:11:49","slug":"3000-troops-to-fight-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55246","title":{"rendered":"3000 Troops to fight Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=28656\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28656\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/health-clinic-south-africa-300x199.gif\" alt=\"health-clinic-south-africa\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/health-clinic-south-africa-300x199.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/health-clinic-south-africa.gif 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55059\">ten days ago<\/a>, we wrote about the President&#8217;s intention to send US troops to Africa to help fight the Ebola epidemic there. A few weeks before that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54590\">I speculated<\/a> that would happen, but I never expected that they&#8217;d be <a href=\"http:\/\/news.msn.com\/world\/obama-ebola-outbreak-spiraling-out-of-control\">sending three thousand troops<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The stepped-up U.S. response includes sending 3,000 troops to the region, including medics and corpsmen for treatment and training, engineers to help build treatment facilities and logistics specialists to assist in patient transportation. Troops would not provide direct care to Ebola patients, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. A substantial number will be stationed at an intermediate base in Senegal, with others at locations in Liberia, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Obama also announced that Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams, head of U.S. Army Africa, will head a military command center based in Liberia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/obama-announce-major-ebola-effort-043320604.html;_ylt=A0LEVy4ViBlU_k0AhXpXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzMm1nanNsBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NNRTY1Nl8x\">AFP<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of the US effort, which will draw heavily on its military medical corps, will be concentrated in impoverished Liberia &#8212; the worst hit nation &#8212; with plans to build 17 Ebola treatment centres with 100 beds in each.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Washington will also send 65 experts from the public health service corps to Liberia to manage and staff a previously announced US military hospital to care for health workers who become sick with Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>Ebola prevention kits, including disinfectant and advice, will also be supplied to 400,000 of the most vulnerable families in Liberia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we&#8217;re raising the costs of veterans&#8217; healthcare while providing free healthcare and building free healthcare facilities in Africa. And, what are the troops who are deploying to Africa going to contract in the various shitholes that they&#8217;ll need treatment for in ten or twenty or  thirty years from now, when their veterans&#8217; healthcare has been whittled down to nothing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About ten days ago, we wrote about the President&#8217;s intention to send US troops to Africa &hellip; <a title=\"3000 Troops to fight Ebola\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55246\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3000 Troops to fight Ebola<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}