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101st Airborne Won’t Get Full Protective Hazmat Suits for Ebola Mission in West Afric

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Back in 99 or 2000 I read a book about the Clinton administration. Supposedly Hillary Clinton was in some third world country and while being driven down some road she noticed all of the poverty and backwards farming. She turned around to one of her female minion companions and said, "We should have our military here digging wells and irrigation ditches for these people."

Every day the 101st isn't out on the range or in the field training for combat but instead sitting in sensitivity training classrooms or building hospitals in Africa, it lowers the combat efficancy of the 101st or any other combat unit that's not training for war. If you ever read the MacArthur Papers, Douglas touched on that, every day a soldier isn't training for war, the more he will bleed and die in combat.

Heya Apache. :2wave: I figured next would come.....they are there for Security.
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Re: 101st Airborne Won’t Get Full Protective Hazmat Suits for Ebola Mission in West A

Heya Apache. :2wave: I figured next would come.....they are there for Security.
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The 101st is an assault force not a security force.
 
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What you don't know what a nurse is?


Is hard to figure out that no one can say.....people who are infected wont come around or stop on by. That's a lot to handle isn't it? Those words just caused you go blank huh?

Did you need pictures?

I know what a nurse is. What does your peculiar arrangement of words have to do with nurses?
 
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When did the 101st become an engineering unit ?

I thought the 101st was a combat unit ?

"To change the purpose and culture of the military." Joseph Stalin / Barack Obama.

So now apdst equates Barack Obama with Joseph Stalin.
As he and MMC continue to play politics with our deployed soldiers and ebola .
 
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Heya Apache. :2wave: I figured next would come.....they are there for Security.
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Apache, MMC and apdst playing politics with ebola.
I thought you were better than that .
 
Re: 101st Airborne Won’t Get Full Protective Hazmat Suits for Ebola Mission in West A

Looks like finding a cure to the mental affliction of playing politics with ebola
will be much more difficult to find than a cure to the actual disease ebola .

I know what a nurse is. What does your peculiar arrangement of words have to do with nurses?
 
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“They don’t need the whole suit – as such – because they’re not going to be in contact with any of the people,” the commander of U.S. troops in Africa said.

Soldiers from the 101st Airborne will primarily be building hospitals, ultimately leading what could be a contingent of 4,000 American service members. They’ll be housed either in tent cities at military airfields or in Liberian Ministry of Defense facilities, Rodriguez said.


um is this that bad?

Who cares what they will and won't be doing. They should be given proper equipment just in case!

Another Administration FAIL!
 
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Apache, MMC and apdst playing politics with ebola.
I thought you were better than that .

You have no clue as to what you are talking about.....you still having trouble figuring out the difference between Airborne Rangers and Army Engineers?

I want to know why my Sky Brethren are being sent there. This is not what they are designed for. Now figure it out.
 
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So now apdst equates Barack Obama with Joseph Stalin.
As he and MMC continue to play politics with our deployed soldiers and ebola .

"To change the purpose and culture of the military." Both Joseph Stalin and Barack Obama had the same agenda, politicizing the military.

It's from a paper that Condoleezza Rice wrote a few years ago.
 
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I know what a nurse is. What does your peculiar arrangement of words have to do with nurses?

In this particular case.....helps bring out another's limitation when they're decipherin' and comin' up with naught and naught.
 
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You have no clue as to what you are talking about.....you still having trouble figuring out the difference between Airborne Rangers and Army Engineers?

I want to know why my Sky Brethren are being sent there. This is not what they are designed for. Now figure it out.

i suppose you objected to eisenhower ordering the 101st airborne division to help integrate little rock central high school?
 
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The 101st is an assault force not a security force.

Yeah, and we know they aren't engineers, nor carpenters, nor roofers, nor specialists in building medical facilities nor specialists in dealing with Diseases of this type.

Now the disease ISIS.....they know how to deal with.
 
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i suppose you objected to eisenhower ordering the 101st airborne division to help integrate little rock central high school?

Yeah I would.....as that's not what their designed for. Did you read what their missions entail. Is it that difficult to figure out? Got anything better than Eisenhower?
 
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i suppose you objected to eisenhower ordering the 101st airborne division to help integrate little rock central high school?

Unitedwestand, you broke the liberal rule # 96, never never mention that a Republican President or a Republican member of Congress supported civil rights legislation.
 
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Can someone explain what vital national interest is served by exposing 4,000 of our American military to Ebola-infected persons?
 
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Unitedwestand, you broke the liberal rule # 96, never never mention that a Republican President or a Republican member of Congress supported civil rights legislation.

civil rights is a liberal ideal, so party identity plays no factor in my consideration.
 
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civil rights is a liberal ideal, so party identity plays no factor in my consideration.

Did those Eisenhower pick have to build medical facilities, that will have isolation units......do you know what their MOS is? Think it has anything to do with building medical facilities?

Do you think it makes sense to assign a combat unit to build medical facilities?
 
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>"The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) provides our Nation an unmatched expeditionary Air Assault capability to conduct forcible entry and other worldwide unified land operations in support of combatant commanders."<

What ever happened to the Peace Corps ? It's what liberals joined to avoid the Army during the 60's.

Peace Corps

Right, but this particular group of people. What are they trained to to?
 
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guess who said this - and their political affiliation:
It isn't a matter of money. It isn't a matter on the part of the army of desire. It's a matter of production and capability of doing it. As you know, ah, you go to war with the army you have---not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.---You can have all the armor in the world on a tank and it can (still) be blown up...

i am certain the OP was not (appropriately) ridiculing the president when that gem was uttered

but now that it is a black president, instead of a republican one, the current white house occupant is criticized for not providing equipment that is not needed for the job the troops are to engage

too bad we cannot say the same for the circumstances related to the above quote. then we placed our troops in inadequately armored vehicles while having them patrol areas subject to IEDs

yet another OP partisan thread fail; but consider the source
 
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Right, but this particular group of people. What are they trained to to?

A are trained to kill and blow **** up in the name of the United States.
 
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The usual quality of leadership coning from the CIC.

Yeah, because the President decides what every single army unit will wear every day. :lamo
 
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“They don’t need the whole suit – as such – because they’re not going to be in contact with any of the people,” the commander of U.S. troops in Africa said.

Soldiers from the 101st Airborne will primarily be building hospitals, ultimately leading what could be a contingent of 4,000 American service members. They’ll be housed either in tent cities at military airfields or in Liberian Ministry of Defense facilities, Rodriguez said.


um is this that bad?

I'm sure the commanding officer of the troops involved isn't nearly as smart as the Right wing bashers on this forum are about these things.
 
Re: 101st Airborne Won’t Get Full Protective Hazmat Suits for Ebola Mission in West A

Can someone explain what vital national interest is served by exposing 4,000 of our American military to Ebola-infected persons?

They're fighting it over there so you don't have to fight it over here. Or something. How did it go again?
 
Re: 101st Airborne Won’t Get Full Protective Hazmat Suits for Ebola Mission in West A

Can someone explain what vital national interest is served by exposing 4,000 of our American military to Ebola-infected persons?

How are they going to be exposed?
 
Re: 101st Airborne Won’t Get Full Protective Hazmat Suits for Ebola Mission in West A

I'm sure the commanding officer of the troops involved isn't nearly as smart as the Right wing bashers on this forum are about these things.

Most of the smart commanders have already been purged from the Officers Corps and replaced with PC yes men.
 
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