I think they’re holding back because of the chaos down there. You feed too many in too quick, remember there is already a lot of NG troopers on the way in, and all they’ll do is trip over each other. You also have to make sure things like logistics, etc are ready as well or otherwise all you have are refugees with cleaner clothes.
Also you might not want whole units. Maybe just engineers, MP’s, etc. You have to find out just what is needed besides warm bodies.
Vermont is deploying 175 Natl Guard troops this weekend. They are asking the public to drop off donations today that will be taken to the Gulf States. There’s a published list of items requested. I’m set to go shopping this afternoon. It’s a long haul but we’ll get the men there.
Looking at the images on the news last night, it appears to me that after 72 hours of abject misery, we’re starting to pull it together.
I certainly hope that local newspapers across the country assign reporters to detail how their own community would evacuate the indigent, the prisons, the hospitals in the event of a catastrophe.
Remember also that in addition to sending in troops you have to send in all food, water, sanitary facitilies for them so that they don’t become a burden on the rescue effort themselves. They also have to be housed. Where? And transported.
Brendan - a couple of us are suggesting that you may well find informative a couple of the links we added in comments here . (comments around #80 or later)
With all the hurt I have been going through (my father is a New Orleans native, everyone we know got out, all homes flooded) this is the first time I have laughed.
Thanks for your hard work Brendan.
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September 2nd, 2005 at 8:22:41 am
I think they’re holding back because of the chaos down there. You feed too many in too quick, remember there is already a lot of NG troopers on the way in, and all they’ll do is trip over each other. You also have to make sure things like logistics, etc are ready as well or otherwise all you have are refugees with cleaner clothes.
Also you might not want whole units. Maybe just engineers, MP’s, etc. You have to find out just what is needed besides warm bodies.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:19:22 am
Vermont is deploying 175 Natl Guard troops this weekend. They are asking the public to drop off donations today that will be taken to the Gulf States. There’s a published list of items requested. I’m set to go shopping this afternoon. It’s a long haul but we’ll get the men there.
Looking at the images on the news last night, it appears to me that after 72 hours of abject misery, we’re starting to pull it together.
I certainly hope that local newspapers across the country assign reporters to detail how their own community would evacuate the indigent, the prisons, the hospitals in the event of a catastrophe.
September 2nd, 2005 at 12:12:51 pm
Remember also that in addition to sending in troops you have to send in all food, water, sanitary facitilies for them so that they don’t become a burden on the rescue effort themselves. They also have to be housed. Where? And transported.
September 2nd, 2005 at 12:41:10 pm
I agree that simply chucking men in isn’t the answer, and that any large influx of units has to have the way in and the logistical support, but…
“… in case they’re needed.”
Was there ever as bad a PR blunder as that? Perhaps if they said, “standing by to move in when they can get in.” Or something like that.
September 2nd, 2005 at 1:02:25 pm
Brendan - a couple of us are suggesting that you may well find informative a couple of the links we added in comments here . (comments around #80 or later)
Direct URL - Logistics .
September 2nd, 2005 at 3:40:58 pm
” in case they are needed”
With all the hurt I have been going through (my father is a New Orleans native, everyone we know got out, all homes flooded) this is the first time I have laughed.
Thanks for your hard work Brendan.