Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict Michael D. Lumpkin speaks with Marines and Sailors with SPMAGTF Crisis Response - Africa while visiting U.S. service members who supported 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-led 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)