The 100 Marines and sailors who deployed from Spain to Liberia in October to assist with Ebola containment efforts have arrived in Baumholder, Germany for three weeks of monitoring before returning to their home station.
The troops, from Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa, will have their temperature checked twice a day and spend the controlled monitoring period under the close observation of trained health care professionals at U.S. Army Garrison Baumholder who will screen for symptoms of Ebola, officials with Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa said in a news release.
Officials said the work of the task force detachment in Liberia officially ended Dec. 1, when the troops were replaced by Army aviation elements from the 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Following their relief, the release said, the task force Marines and sailors moved on to conducting maintenance and cleaning procedures on equipment in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, the release states. On Dec. 5, a detachment of Marines from task force headquarters in Morón, Spain arrived in Dakar, Senegal via KC-130J Hercules
aircraft to escort newly cleaned MV-22B Ospreys back to base.
In addition to transporting more than 1,200 passengers and nearly 80,000 pounds of cargo, officials said task force Marines with the crisis response force also helped to move Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and key U.S. government officials to visit treatment locations around Liberia.
