A meme is going to bite the USMC in the ass.

Its amazing.

A meme is going to bite the USMC in the ass.

What the fuck am I talking about?  This "crisis response force" thing.  When you have ineffective civilian federal agencies and then the military comes along and says that we can fix any problem, just give us the word, then you have the elements of a disaster in the making.  Check this out from the War is Boring blog...

“If somebody does contract Ebola and becomes symptomatic, they will be handled … just like you’ve seen on the recent ones who came back on an aircraft that was specially designed to bring them back [to the United States],” Gen. David Rodriguez, the head of the Pentagon’s Africa Command, told reporters recently.
“[An infected service member would] go back to one of the centers that is specially designed to handle the Ebola patients right now,” Rodriguez said.
The Ospreys might be one of the few options to rapidly move sickened Americans between hard-to-reach locales and Monrovia’s airport. Phoenix Air’s special air ambulances—which have already flown private citizens back home for treatment—need an actual runway. V-22s don’t.

So you're going to shove a sick and infected troop into the back of an MV-22 and transport him to the airport so he can be evacuated.

Sounds solid....until you take a look at the facts of life for Marines and Soldier on deployment or in the field.

First!  The culture.  You deal with aches and pains.  You have your own personal stash of Tylenol or Asprin to keep you going when your body hurts.  Do that shit in Africa and you're making the early symptoms of Ebola go away...for a little while at least.  Additionally you've always felt achy, had slight fevers etc during any tough field op.  You wouldn't even recognize it for what it is until its too late.

Second!  You're taught rush to the fallen.  Its ingrained into the Marine or Soldier to aid the wounded.  What happens when a squad member goes down?  His buddy move to help.  DO that in Africa and you're exposing yourself.

Third!  How are you going to decontaminate an airplane that has this disease infesting it?  You go from being an angel to being a vector to further spread the disease!

And then last.  Once this short duration mission is over, if you're doing things the right way, then you've just rendered a USMC combat unit ineffective for 21 days once they leave the hot zone.

If you don't then you could see outbreaks at Lejeune or Pendleton or at bases in Spain, or where ever this SPMAGTF-CR is coming from.

Someone is so busy to please the boss that they aren't thinking.

I'm going from worried to full bore 100% alarmed.