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Maine soldiers helping Ebola treatment efforts in Liberia

Maine soldiers helping Ebola treatment efforts in Liberia

From Bangor  Daily News

A Mainer from Hartland, a platoon leader with the 902nd Engineer Company, helped build a 50-patient Ebola treatment unit in Liberia, and another from Bingham is the noncommissioned officer in charge of protection, lodging and logistics for the facility.

1st Lt. Abraham Richardson and the 902nd built the first Ebola treatment unit, which opened on Dec. 21 in Buchanan, Liberia, in just 22 days, and 1st Sgt. Joseph Taylor of the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 36th Engineer Brigade, is the noncommissioned officer who leads the unit’s mayor’s cell.

The 36th, which is from Fort Hood, Texas, is tasked with building more Ebola treatment units, and Taylor’s duties, as the head of the mayor’s cell, include keeping things running smoothly.

“His role is to provide everything we need on the base we are staying at, the National Police Training Center, which we share with the Liberian police,” Capt. Eric Hudson, spokesman for the 36th, said Saturday by email from Paynesville, Liberia.

“When soldiers come here, the mayor’s cell ensures those individuals are facilitated with lodging and safety,” Taylor said in a story posted Saturday by Sgt. Ange Desinor of the 13th Public Affairs Detachment. “The welfare of soldiers and their safety is top priority.”

 

 

Written by Nok-Noi Ricker/Read more at Bangor  Daily News