Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict Michael D. Lumpkin greets U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Christopher Reynolds with SPMAGTF Crisis Response – Africa with an elbow bump, while visiting Marines and Sailors who worked in support of Operation United Assistance in Monrovia, Liberia, Dec. 4, 2014. United Assistance is a Department of Defense operation that provides command and control, logistics, training, and engineering support to U.S. Agency for International Development efforts to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Andre Dakis/SPMAGTF-CR-AF Combat Camera/Released)