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It must be one of those unfunny jokes.
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Um. No. They don't, actually, have that kind of lift capacity.. Fleets of C-17's are expensive
One of us is having delusions. I'm suggesting they will send 3,000 grunts and you are implying that they will send the best and brightest. One of us is wrong.
Haliburton has 80,000 employees in 140 different countries if you bothered to learn anything about the company. They supplied ancillary services to the armed forces in Iraq during the war. They are more than capable and have more than that kind of capacity. We are only sending three thousand soldiers to do God knows what. Our military has more than enough military work to do.
Hey, look who's showing up?
On Saturday, a handful of troops from the Navy's 133rd Mobile Construction Battalion led a bulldozer through thigh-high grass outside Liberia's main airport, bottles of hand sanitizer dangling from their belt loops...
So, which one of us was delusional about sending a regiment of Infantry to fight Ebola?
Navy huh? So what is the Navy doing wearing Air Force stripes on their sleeves? The first gal behind the first guy one can make out the U.S. Air Force tag above her left pocket. I came darn close to saying above her left boob, but didn't. Trying to stay half way PC.
Interesting that this "handful" group appears to be predominately women, though....is that usual for a Construction Battalion?
Navy huh? So what is the Navy doing wearing Air Force stripes on their sleeves? The first gal behind the first guy one can make out the U.S. Air Force tag above her left pocket. I came darn close to saying above her left boob, but didn't. Trying to stay half way PC.
The article has Naval and Airforce Personnel, with AFRICOM serving as the parent HQ element, although they've spun off a subordinate JTF. Calling it "Operation Unified Assistance".
Okay, but the article said Navy's 133rd Mobile Construction right above the picture of all those Air Force types getting off.
A Navy Construction Battalion does not have any Air Force. That is what I was getting at. Looking at the picture that is all I see is Air Force. I would imagine nowadays a Navy Construction Battalion would have a few women. But the picture leaves me wondering if these Air Force Women aren't medical personnel.
Hey, look who's showing up?
When did the Air Force started requiring airmen and airchicks to have bar codes on their heads.
Isn't that what the guy in the orange vest doing, reading bar codes ?
When did the Air Force started requiring airmen and airchicks to have bar codes on their heads.
Isn't that what the guy in the orange vest doing, reading bar codes ?
:shrug: astonishingly, the same article had a picture of Air Force personnel and an interview with navy engineers. The point was only that Fagan was wrong when he said we would be sending a regiment of infantry.
Greetings, APACHERAT. :2wave:
Thanks for asking that question...I was about to ask what the orange vest guy was doing, since it looked like what the workers in grocery stores do when checking shelves....
When did the Air Force started requiring airmen and airchicks to have bar codes on their heads.
Isn't that what the guy in the orange vest doing, reading bar codes ?
LOL, okay. Most of those going to Africa will be medical personnel. There may be some infantry to provide security. But everything done over there will be under the medical personnel direction. I just thought it was funny with Navy construction battalion above a picture of a bunch of Air Force folks.
He's checking body temperatures. Everyone coming in and out get's checked, as high fever is (apparently) one of the early signs of the virus.
Makes sense since the Africans are now saying that the Ebola virus was developed by the USA to be used in germ warfare.
They said the same thing about AIDS.
I remember when Navy Sea Bees were able to provide their own security and they were good at it. Probably why they were known as the "Fighting Sea Bees."
I remember back in 69 when I was going through 2nd ITR at Pendleton there was about 300 Navy CB's going through individual infantry training.
Yeah - the biggest newspaper in liberia is spreading that crap. :roll: Between that and attacking aid workers, there are going to be a lot of social enablers of this disease. We are nowhere even near the inflection point, I think.
Greetings, cpwill. :2wave:
Are they suggesting that we are there to kill more of them faster, or that it's guilty conscience on our part to try to help them fight what we supposedly gave them in the first place, since we're apparently immune to Ebola? This is getting stranger by the day..... :shock:
It's part of our grand design to wipe out the African Race, and also a military test gone awry :roll: kinda dumb, but nobody ever said that the anti-American conspiratists had to be consistent...