lou133 said:I suppose that USA has enough resources to deal with these situation, it's far from being poor with no infrastructures, but it's more for the principle of offering help, just having good intention
edadian said:If the US does all the resources it needs why isn't getting to New Orleans? The lawlessness in the city could easily be dealt with with a Stryker Brigade. Amphibious vehicles moving through the flooded streets would be better then boats.
As for the National Guard how much of these States' Guards are in Iraq?
DART could be sent if asked for but sending it without waiting to be asked is a technical act of war. When did the US National Guard get our water purification equipment? Last I heard no other military in the world had kit like it.
edadian said:Hence why I suggested amphibious vehicles to get past the knocked out bridges. Bush has just said he is sending the Iwo Jima groups and the Comfort. Marines will have the amphibious kit needed to get into New Orleans.
edadian said:If the US does all the resources it needs why isn't getting to New Orleans? The lawlessness in the city could easily be dealt with with a Stryker Brigade. Amphibious vehicles moving through the flooded streets would be better then boats.
As for the National Guard how much of these States' Guards are in Iraq?
DART could be sent if asked for but sending it without waiting to be asked is a technical act of war. When did the US National Guard get our water purification equipment? Last I heard no other military in the world had kit like it.
edadian said:If the US does all the resources it needs why isn't getting to New Orleans? The lawlessness in the city could easily be dealt with with a Stryker Brigade. Amphibious vehicles moving through the flooded streets would be better then boats.
edadian said:As for the National Guard how much of these States' Guards are in Iraq?
edadian said:DART could be sent if asked for but sending it without waiting to be asked is a technical act of war. When did the US National Guard get our water purification equipment? Last I heard no other military in the world had kit like it.
FormerHorseGuard said:Looting is going tobe a problem for days to come, and the biggest probelm is what do you do with the people once you cuff and holding them. no place to take them the jails are flooded and the immates already there are sitting on over passes and bridges awaiting something or some place to go.
US army has had the same, or at least very similar, water purification equipment to ours for years. How do I know? 'Cause I was there when their design teams came and looked at my ROWPUs.edadian said:If the US does all the resources it needs why isn't getting to New Orleans? The lawlessness in the city could easily be dealt with with a Stryker Brigade. Amphibious vehicles moving through the flooded streets would be better then boats.
As for the National Guard how much of these States' Guards are in Iraq?
DART could be sent if asked for but sending it without waiting to be asked is a technical act of war. When did the US National Guard get our water purification equipment? Last I heard no other military in the world had kit like it.
edadian said:Hence why I suggested amphibious vehicles to get past the knocked out bridges. Bush has just said he is sending the Iwo Jima groups and the Comfort. Marines will have the amphibious kit needed to get into New Orleans.
Military providing full-scale response to hurricane relief effort
by Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123011498
8/31/2005 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- Joint Task Force Katrina is setting up Aug. 31 at Camp Shelby, Miss., as the Defense Department's focal point to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency's relief efforts along the Gulf Coast, said Maj. Eric Butterbaugh, a U.S. Northern Command spokesman.
Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, 1st U.S. Army commander, will head the task force to coordinate DOD active-duty support for disaster relief efforts in the hurricane's aftermath, much of it already under way or in the works.
Meanwhile, the number of National Guardsmen on duty in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida rose to almost 8,300 on Aug. 31.
Military providing full-scale response to hurricane relief effort
by Master Sgt. Paul Fazzini
Air Mobility Command Public Affairs
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123011497
8/31/2005 - SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFPN) -- The Tanker Airlift Control Center here started generating missions Air Mobility Command aircrews will fly supporting Hurricane Katrina relief operations in Louisiana and Mississippi.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, through Northern Command and U.S. Transportation Command, asked for airlift support to fly relief supplies to the stricken region, said Col. Jeff Franklin, the center controller working hurricane relief mission taskings.
"We've already tasked two aeromedical evacuation airlift missions to fly from Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., to (Lackland AFB) in San Antonio," he said. "In addition, AMC has been tasked to fly five other strategic airlift missions into Lafayette Regional Airport in Lafayette, La. Four of those are C-5 (Galaxys) and the other is a C-17 (Globemaster III)."
A mix of total force Airmen from active-duty, Guard and Reserve bases nationwide are flying the missions, the colonel said. They will move everything from inflatable boats to urban search and rescue team members and their equipment. Because airports and airfields in the Biloxi and New Orleans areas are without power because of extensive damage from the hurricane's high winds, rain and flooding, aircraft are primarily flying cargo and people into Lafayette, located northwest of the coastal areas.
There has not been a staging area established for incoming cargo and people yet, the colonel said.