Soldiers & Marines that served in W. Africa are quarantined upon return... UPDATED!!!

UPDATE:  I just hit on something.  The US Army is stepping up and taking the hit on this but those Soldiers are based in Italy.  This is all part of the basing agreement and the agreement to use Italy and Spain as jump off points for the relief missions to Africa.  If they weren't quarantined when they came back then the agreement would be off.  Good on the Army for doing the right thing.  Bad on the Army for not telling the fucking truth.


via Shepherd of the Gurneys.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Army has started isolating soldiers returning from an Ebola response mission in West Africa, even though they showed no symptoms of infection and there was no incident signaling potential exposure, the Pentagon said on Monday.The decision goes well beyond previously established military protocols and came just as the White House pushed to roll back steps by U.S. states to quarantine healthcare workers returning from countries battling Ebola epidemics, even if they showed no symptoms of infection.
The Army has already isolated about a dozen soldiers at part of a U.S. military base in Vicenza, Italy. This includes Major General Darryl Williams, who oversaw the military's initial response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Williams is the head of the U.S. Army Africa, which is based at Vicenza, and the senior Army officer at the base.
"They're not allowed to leave," said Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.
Dozens more troops would be isolated in the coming days as they rotate out of West Africa, where the U.S. military has been building Ebola treatment facilities to help health authorities treat Ebola victims, the Pentagon said.
"There was no single triggering event. This is really a decision that's made out of an abundance of caution," Warren said.
The Army is the only service to implement such a move. The only personnel who have rotated out of the operation so far have been from the Army, Warren said.
But a U.S. military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that discussions were under way about taking similar action across the U.S. armed forces.

Rant time.

So a fucking princess of a nurse can sue because she worked directly with Ebola patients and lives in the New York/New Jersey megalopolis....and the governors of those states want to protect their people from an outbreak....

But service members that had no direct contact are being quarantined???

Yeah.  We're seeing complete and utter bullshit on the Ebola issue.

SIDENOTE:  Remember the post where I said that this would take SPMAGTF-CR Africa out of action for at least 21 days after mission completion, longer if a member got sick?  Well its worse than that now.  We're talking about taking the 101st Airborne Headquarters and a Brigade from that unit out of action too.  I complain about the USMC being stretched thin but have you seen the Army's taskings lately?  We're playing with the national security of the United States in many ways.  To me this is beyond crazy.  Worse?  The world is burning and we might need those forces for combat, not humanitarian missions.