ALERT: Pentagon Makes Announcement About Ebola… It’s Not Good

ALERT: Pentagon Makes Announcement About Ebola… It’s Not Good

When it comes to the 3a.m. phone call about the Ebola virus, the Obama administration is apparently going to let it keep ringing.

First came word that the CDC let a nurse treating Ebola patients fly commercially in spite of the fact she’d reported early symptoms of infection. Then there were Dr. Ben Carson’s remarks alleging the President was silencing CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden on Ebola policy. Now comes the news that soldiers being deployed to West Africa to combat the proliferation of the disease, which has claimed at least 4,484 lives, won’t receive full protective gear to shield them from infection. (H/T Nashville Public Radio.)

In a Pentagon briefing Wednesday, Gen. David Rodriguez claimed that the full hazmat suit – which Americans have come to know and love thanks to one Thomas Duncan – isn’t necessary for our troops, who will be instead equipped with gloves and masks to safeguard against the deadly virus. Only the finest for our heroes!

“They don’t need the whole suit – as such – because they’re not going to be in contact with any of the people,” Gen. Rodriguez said in his briefing. The soldiers, who are from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, are charged with building hospitals in West Africa.

Rodriguez assured reporters that none of the 4,000 men and women being deployed to Liberia and other affected areas would come into contact with Ebola patients, a statement easily as credible as President Obama’s military strategy in regards to ISIS.

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Gen. Rodriguez went on to say that if a soldier is found to be sick, he will be airlifted back to America for treatment – a proactive policy which I’m sure is of great relief to soldiers and military families alike.

The President has been on quite a roll with our men in uniform of late, what with the “latte salute” and a bevy of former military brass going public with details of Obama’s contentious relationship with the armed forces. Unlike the latte salute, though, this outrage leaves our heroes at risk of infection from one of the deadliest viral outbreaks of the last century. Putting them in harm’s way to fight Ebola is bad enough, but sending them out there without the protection they need is scandalous.

One wonders whether the President’s decision to “hug and kiss“ the nurses treating Ebola patients might have been a bit different if the nurses had only used gloves and masks for protection…

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