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2014-10-17 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Obama calls up reserves to deal with Ebola in Africa

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Posted by Fred 2014-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 See my earlier Post.

Whether one likes or agrees wid the Bammer or not, it broadly still makes better sense to deal wid the Ebola Crisis "Over There, Not Over Here".

I trust the USDOD to know how to best protect its troops from Ebola.

POTUS Franklin Roosevelt approved the post-Pearl Harbor/December 7th, 1941 internment of Japanese-AMericans not because he hated them, but because the needs of war + the still-ongoing, still-expanding, Post-Pearl "offensive" military campaign by Japan in the Pacific de-prioritized any legal resolution of their individual cases to the bottom of the stack. The internment camps were as much to protect the rights + lives of Japanese-Americans from the post-Pearl angry US mainstream as it was to protect the US war effort from alleged Japanese spies + espionage.

AFAIK the same principle is applicable wid Ebola save in Liberia.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-10-17 01:26|| 2014-10-17 01:26|| Front Page Top

#2 And that is how you introduce voluntary retirement.

Posted by Skidmark 2014-10-17 05:56|| 2014-10-17 05:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Joe my friend, sometimes I just wonder.

Good insight > POLITICS

Posted by Shipman 2014-10-17 09:06|| 2014-10-17 09:06|| Front Page Top

#4 My point was that the military's not organized or trained for containing epidemics.

We can send medics, we can send logistics people, we can send MPs (assuming the military still has such a thing). Perhaps signals elements would be of peripheral assistance.

Tanks and artillery won't be much help. The military is always short of doctors. Tasking Fort Sam to support would seem to make more sense than calling up the Iowa National Guard.

Posted by Fred 2014-10-17 12:19|| 2014-10-17 12:19|| Front Page Top

#5 If/when guard or reserve units are deployed, anyone want to take bets on which states' units will be sent?

Posted by Lowspark 2014-10-17 15:20|| 2014-10-17 15:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Many of the more specialized Army units are in the National Guard or the Reserves. The active duty Army doesn't need a lot of military police or medical units (among others) on a day to day basis during peacetime. Whether or not sending US troops to Africa is a good idea, the units most needed and best trained for the role would probably have to come out of the National Guard or Reserve

Posted by Chantry 2014-10-17 19:17|| 2014-10-17 19:17|| Front Page Top

#7 What they should be calling up is the 6000 uniformed members of the public health service. Slice out 1500 and send 500 of them downrange at a time for 90 day tours.

Posted by Cheanter Ebbaper3878 2014-10-17 19:35|| 2014-10-17 19:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Can't do that - the WH would be depriving most of its voting base.

Posted by Pappy 2014-10-17 21:19|| 2014-10-17 21:19|| Front Page Top

#9 As orderlies, send certain poor men
And ladies who have heretofore been
As useless as tits on
A boar hog that spits on
The public, our brave Urban Corpsmen!

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