Yet again, current events mirror fiction..

[DigTw0Grav3s]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...on-Africa.html

I think this is a terrible idea, but it sure is a great hook for a T2K/T2013 campaign.

[James Langham2]

I hate to say it, I think this follows "Yes Minister" logic. Something needs to be done, this is something, therefore we will do it.

[pmulcahy11b]

Troops or Health Workers? They really need both.

[unkated]

Troops, supposedly to provide support operations - not security (except probably self-security) or quarantine control.

Setting up field hospitals is the only actual activity I heard (offered as an example), and probably expanding infrastructure to allow for easier provision of aid. For that they need 3000 troops? How many field hospitals do they want to set up?

Uncle Ted

[Tegyrius]

After a medical team got killed by a machete-wielding mob in Guinea yesterday, some of those troops may be necessary to provide security for the medical personnel...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29256443

- C.

[kcdusk]

Troops or not, it'd be a dangerous job i would have thought. Not just the physical danger of a "mob" or being in an unfamiliar country, but the health risks also.