101st Airborne Troops Will be Sent to African Ebola Mission Without Hazmat Gear

Unfuckingreal.

From Gateway Pundit.

Troops from the 101st Airborne Division leading the military response to Ebola in West Africa will only need gloves and masks to protect themselves from the deadly virus, so said Gen. David Rodriguez at a Pentagon briefing Wednesday.

“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.

Soldiers’ health will be monitored through surveys and taking their temperature on their way in and out of camps. If a service member does get sick, Rodriguez said they will be flown home immediately for treatment.

Health officials admitted this past week that the death rate in the Ebola epidemic has risen to 70 percent, up from 50 percent.

Those Soldiers are being deliberately exposed to a lethal disease with no protection.  Rodriguez has a shit factory for a brain. If he really thinks they won’t run the risk of coming into contact with people infected with Ebola, he’s plain fucking stupid. The facilities will have African locals coming in and out of the area and gawd knows who they come into contact with.

Instead of equipping them with preventative means, Rodriguez will just wait until they get sick.

The military hierarchy is just as incompetent, irresponsible, and detached as Obama. A real Commander-in-Chief would raise hell over this idiocy.  But then a real Commander in Chief wouldn’t send Soldiers to fight a disease best handles by medical personnel.

Meanwhile, Obama goes golfing, again.