Lab administrator Dr. Hale confers with U.S. Army Africa’s Command surgeon Col. James Czarnik and U.S. Embassy Monrovia senior defense official Col. Mitchell about the process of extracting and testing for Ebola. U.S. Agency for International Development is the lead U.S. government organization for Operation United Assistance. U.S. Africa Command is supporting the effort by providing command and control, logistics, training and engineering assets to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations.