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re: What's the truth on Katrina/Blackwater, etc.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 7:41 pm to NWarty
Posted on 8/22/15 at 7:41 pm to NWarty
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"See those two 5-tons CPT Boudreaux? We found them about 400 yards from your FMS, got them up and running and used it. Here ya go. My boys and those Kentucky mechanics were incredible" ISU-90's on Lakefront airport? That was a phone call away to get stuff we needed.
why am i totally not surprised???
maybe you could explain a couple of things to me....
WHY THE (*&(*&(*&( didn't anyone simply load up a couple of barges and send them down the river?
then load the people at the convention center onto barges and get them upriver far enough to link up with ground transport?
hell, in 1965 barges were used to move military equipment down into Plaquemines Parish after Hurricane Betsy...I don't have immediate access to the picture, but if anyone here had a relative who worked for Freeport Sulphur...the company newspaper had a picture of the MV V.J. Vallot pushing a barge loaded with National Guardsmen and equipment downriver...my father, who spent Betsy on the boat tied to the old dock on the river at Port Sulphur was at the helm...
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Posted on 8/22/15 at 7:48 pm to vl100butch
All the equipment that we had after the 82nd pulled out was either helo battalions or a small smattering of other units for a couple of weeks.
Illinois and Kentucky were the main players as the NG headquarters was established at De LaSalle HS under the Division Artillery Command from the KYARNG. Primary equipment (HMMWVs) came from these two states. The DIVARTY commander was the lead for all NG operations on the ground.
Once we got on the ground after traveling from Alexandria, we signed for the equipment from them. We were based out of the Hilton, the TF HQ at least with companies spread from the NASA site to the Art College and Nunery. I was based out of NO East from Crowder-Hayne, west to the canal and commanding a 120-man rifle company, with members primarily from Spokane and Pullman, WA.
We were there for a month and a half until the LAARNG was pulled early from Iraq and sent back.
Illinois and Kentucky were the main players as the NG headquarters was established at De LaSalle HS under the Division Artillery Command from the KYARNG. Primary equipment (HMMWVs) came from these two states. The DIVARTY commander was the lead for all NG operations on the ground.
Once we got on the ground after traveling from Alexandria, we signed for the equipment from them. We were based out of the Hilton, the TF HQ at least with companies spread from the NASA site to the Art College and Nunery. I was based out of NO East from Crowder-Hayne, west to the canal and commanding a 120-man rifle company, with members primarily from Spokane and Pullman, WA.
We were there for a month and a half until the LAARNG was pulled early from Iraq and sent back.
This post was edited on 8/22/15 at 8:16 pm
Posted on 8/22/15 at 8:54 pm to vl100butch
quote:
WHY THE (*&(*&(*&( didn't anyone simply load up a couple of barges and send them down the river?
then load the people at the convention center onto barges and get them upriver far enough to link up with ground transport?
Put people in a barge and ship them upriver?
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