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To: blueyon

Fema unprepared to deliver bottled WATER? What the...

Water is the #1 most important thing to deliver to people in a crisis.

Didn’t any of these fools learn anything in their years at their beloved universities? Common sense trumps education every time.


67 posted on 11/03/2012 11:42:35 AM PDT by An American In Dairyland
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To: An American In Dairyland

FEMA is good at delivering FORMS to fill out.


93 posted on 11/03/2012 12:04:47 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: An American In Dairyland
Fema unprepared to deliver bottled WATER? What the... Water is the #1 most important thing to deliver to people in a crisis.

FEMA is ill-suited to this mission, due to its need to place bids for relief supplies and then make contracts for delivery.

The US Army is much better suited for this. They have people trained in how to deliver supplies through rough terrain, in any weather, and adverse security conditions.

They have mobile water purification units

They have mobile field kitchens

They have fuel trucks that will go anywhere.

They have warehouses full of MREs.

And the military's supply and logistics units are mostly National Guard and Reserves, and much of the stuff is distributed all over the country.

A competent solution would have involved mobilizing Army and National Guard support units, which could have used their ready supplies, stores, and equipment immediately, and then replaced used-up stuff at leisure.

116 posted on 11/03/2012 12:29:33 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (political correctness is communist thought control, disguised as good manners)
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