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September 17, 2014

Obama Unveils U.S. Military Response to Ebola in Liberia 
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President Obama is warning a record outbreak of Ebola could claim
hundreds of thousands of lives. Speaking Tuesday Obama announced the
deployment of equipment and 3,000 troops to West Africa, where more than
2,500 people have died.

President Obama: "At the request of the Liberian government, we're going
to establish a military command center in Liberia to support civilian
efforts across the region, similar to our response after the Haiti
earthquake. It's going to be commanded by Major General Darryl Williams,
commander of our Army forces in Africa. He just arrived today and is now
on the ground in Liberia. And our forces are going to bring their
expertise in command and control, in logistics, in engineering. And our
Department of Defense is better at that, our Armed Services are better
at that, than any organization on Earth."

 

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