While the U.S. military played a supporting role through Operation United Assistance, our presence helped provide the confidence for the international community and the affected countries to respond and battle this deadly virus.

As the mission of Joint Forces Command – United Assistance comes to an end, there are a few more tasks that service members, deployed in support of Operation United Assistance, have to complete.

Capt. Shawn Palmer, a biochemist with the 1st Area Medical Laboratory, based out of Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., and a native of Loma, Colo., breaks down a biological safety level three glove box at the 1st AML’s Ebola testing lab in Zwedru, Liberia, Feb. 9, 2015. The glove box is built to provide maximum personnel and environmental protection from high-risk biological agents. Soldiers of the 1st AML used this equipment to test blood samples of suspected Ebola patients. This, along with other equipment, was decontaminated and packed away as 1st AML closed the Zwedru lab. Operation United Assistance is a Department of Defense operation in Liberia to provide logistics, training and engineering support to U.S. Agency for International Development-led efforts to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in western Africa. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Terrance D. Rhodes, Joint Forces Command – United Assistance Public Affairs/RELEASED)

The logistics enterprise united the efforts of a multi-disciplined, interagency team formed across nations, governments and non-government organizations, leading to success in OPERATION United Assistance.

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Europe-Africa Commander, COL Deborah Keough, brings toys and supplies to orphanage in Liberia. Deliberate planning and actions across the entire logistics enterprise united the efforts of a multi-disciplined, interagency team formed across nations, governments and non-government organizations (NGOs) which directly led to success in OPERATION United Assistance. U.S. AFRICOM photo/released)

Construction of Initial Staging Base (ISB), Dakar, Senegal. Deliberate planning and actions across the entire logistics enterprise united the efforts of a multi-disciplined, interagency team formed across nations, governments and non-government organizations (NGOs) which directly led to success in OPERATION United Assistance. (U.S. AFRICOM photo/released)

United Assistance is a Department of Defense operation to provide command and control, logistics, training and engineering support to U.S. Agency for International Development-led efforts to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations. To seem more images of JFC-UA visits Greenville ETU, visit our OUA page.

Since Oct. 8, 2014 a detachment of 100 U.S. Marines and sailors from Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa (SPMAGTF-CR-AF) provided support to Operation United Assistance (OUA), the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis in Liberia.

U.S Army Sgt. Bethany Lose cares for U.S. service members deployed in support of Operation United Assistance in Liberia.

United Assistance is a Department of Defense operation to provide command and control, logistics, training and engineering support to U.S. Agency for International Development- led efforts to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations.

Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group provide support in carrying and transporting supplies at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 22, 2014. The supplies are being sent to Liberia to support U.S. troops deployed for Operation United Assistance, the U.S. Agency for International Development-led, whole-of-government effort to respond to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

DAKAR, Senegal — The commander of the 101st Airborne Division and more than 30 of his troops departed from Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport here Oct. 19 en route to Liberia, where they will join hundreds of U.S. service members engaged in the fight against Ebola in West Africa.

141018-Z-VT419-205: U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Gary J. Volesky (right), commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, speaks with Lt. Col. Bruce Bancroft (left) and Col. David Mounkes of the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group Oct. 18, 2014, during a tour of the Joint Operations Center for Joint Task Force-Port Opening Senegal at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. The JTF-PO is funneling humanitarian supplies and military support into West Africa as part of Operation United Assistance, the international effort to fight Ebola. Volesky will serve as the new commander of the U.S. military’s Operation United Assistance Joint Forces Command, headquartered in Liberia, where the Army is sending 3,000 Soldiers to support the USAID-led, whole-of-government effort to respond to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer/Released)

141019-Z-VT419-207: A group of 30 U.S. military personnel, including Marines, Airmen, and Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division, board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 19, 2014. The service members are bound for Monrovia, Liberia, where troops will construct medical treatment units and train health care workers as part of the Operation United Assistance, DoD’s support the USAID-led, whole-of-government effort to respond to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer/Released)

US service members are supporting OUA in order to help combat the Ebola outbreak.

Commander of U.S. Africa Command, General David M. Rodriguez, conducts a briefing on the DoD response to Ebola, Oct. 7, 2014 from the Pentagon Press Briefing Room.

Commander of U.S. Africa Command, Gen. David M. Rodriguez, conducts a briefing on the DoD response to Ebola, Oct. 7, 2014 from the Pentagon Press Briefing Room.