August 27, 2005 October is Koufax Pledge Drive month
A Bush-made catastrophe in the making...
The natural disaster is named Katrina. The man-made one carries the name of Bush, who sent the Lousiana, Mississippi and Alabama National Guards to Iraq.
So who will provide disaster relief in Katrina's aftermath?
Posted by MB Williams at August 27, 2005 07:16 PMPeople like me.
Ignoring, for the moment, the problem the deployment poses, I'd probably have been called anyway (it's at least as likely as it is this time).
Calif. (where I am enlisted) sent Guardsmen to Andrew. Louisiana, Alabama, Mississipi, etc., don't have the troop strength to answer something like this on their own, even when they don't have half the state deployed.
California, with the single largest Guard contingent in the nation didn't have all it needed to deal with the Northridge earthquake (mostly in terms of linguists) and had to call on the Regular Army, as well as other states.
TK
Posted by: Terry Karney at August 29, 2005 02:22 AMA couple of data points for Eric:
The M117 ASV is produced by Textron about a quarter mile east of the intersection of US90 and US11 in eastern New Orleans. The primary supplier of boats for the SEALS is about a mile further east on US90. Probably both gone now.