Ebola and other Epidemics, Inadequate Healthcare Threatens Millions

[The Brain]

Why not?

Because we have a lot invested in their training and it's not what they signed up for.

Anyone else who wants to order their military to the area should feel free to do so however.

What exactly do they sign up for? What's in their contracts?

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Because we have a lot invested in their training and it's not what they signed up for.

Anyone else who wants to order their military to the area should feel free to do so however.

Then I suppose the services should remove all the images of uniformed personnel providing humanitarian aid, including medical aid, from their recruiting materials?

[frunk]

Yeah, I don't get it.  The military has a long history of humanitarian missions.

[derspiess]

That should not be their purpose.

[CountDeMoney]

Their purpose is what their Commander-in-Chief says it is.

[Admiral Yi]

Then I suppose the services should remove all the images of uniformed personnel providing humanitarian aid, including medical aid, from their recruiting materials?

They should definitely scrub the ads with uniformed personnel dying of Ebola, if they have any in the works.

[frunk]

They should definitely scrub the ads with uniformed personnel dying of Ebola, if they have any in the works.

As well as the ones where they get their legs blown off by an IED.

[derspiess]

Their purpose is what their Commander-in-Chief says it is.

 

[Jacob]

That should not be their purpose.

Why not?

[Admiral Yi]

As well as the ones where they get their legs blown off by an IED.

Agreed.  If they have any recruiting commercials in which guys are getting blown up by IEDs while delivering bottled water and bags of lentils, those were not well thought out.

[derspiess]

That should not be their purpose.

Why not?

Just my opinion.  The military's purpose should be to kill people and break things, not meals-on-wheels or wading into a sea of ebola.

[Razgovory]

Their purpose is what their Commander-in-Chief says it is.

Nope, he's right.  Their purpose is to follow orders.  If the President wants them to dress up like clowns then by God they will all wear stupid berets.

[The Brain]

Seems much easier to protect yourself against Ebola than against snipers or IEDs. I fail to see the big problem.

[Eddie Teach]

Somebody's got to be there to shoot all the Liberians fleeing to the Ivory Coast.

[Maximus]

Somebody's got to be there to shoot all the Liberians fleeing to the Ivory Coast.

That's the real issue, IMO. If they end up enforcing a quarantine, they could end up shooting at unarmed, desperate people just trying to survive. Maybe that needs to be done, I don't know, but it's a far greater concern than that our troops might be going into harms way to help people.