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"President Barack Obama plans to dramatically boost the U.S. effort to mitigate the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, including greater involvement of the U.S. military, people familiar with the proposal said."
The article eventually goes on to say:
"Many public-health and infectious disease experts have called for a greater U.S. military role, which is highly valued in humanitarian crises for its ability to command and control large operations, as well as its logistics expertise."
We send the military to train forces how to fight in different places around the world but (and I'm not just talking about the Obama administration) that same US military can't train people in the CDC and NIH how to command and control large medical operations/humanitarian crises?
I realize, President Obama has no other choice, right now, than to use the military to run this type of operation but won't some President, any president, ever realize maybe, just maybe coordination and control crises skills can be taught to other federal government employees/non-appointed executives?
I work in a laboratory as a medical technologist. I did/do it in the military, and I do it now on the outside...
Apart from a very very small number of military personnel there is nothing in regards to treatment, outbreak response, containment, or cure that they could possibly teach the CDC and WHO. Now, they could surely help provide and sustain triage areas and portable medical facilities as well as security, logistics, patient transport and man power. But not much in the way of scientifically.
If they sent us on a humanitarian mission there im not wuite sure how id feel about it honestly. Many of the people there dont want our help. Many do. Generally it seems we only get involved if there is a benefit for us though
Yeah..sort of like sending them to find non-existent WMD and 4500 of them end up dead.
Its so weird that 48 nations supported Bush in that venture. Also even more strange at the amount of democrats now screaming that we do more to stop ISIS.
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