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  • Some facts about how the U-S military is responding to Hurricane Katrina.

    09/03/2005 1:49:42 PM PDT · by mdittmar · 24 replies · 711+ views
    Associated Press katc3 ^ | September 3, 2005 | The U-S Army
    WHAT'S NEW -- More National Guard and active-duty troops are being sent to the hurricane region. THE NUMBERS -- Ten-thousand more National Guard troops are going to Louisiana and Mississippi. -- That brings the total to about 40-thousand. -- The chief of the National Guard said Saturday they would be arriving in the coming days. -- President Bush Saturday ordered 72-hundred more active duty forces to the region within 72 hours. -- That's in addition to 4,000 already there. -- About 2,500 of the new troops are from the 82nd Airborne Division. -- About 2,700 are from First Cavalry Division....
  • Fed. Govt sent emergency supplies to Louisiana as early as Tuesday [From AP]

    09/03/2005 12:37:22 PM PDT · by nwrep · 138 replies · 5,758+ views
    AP | August 30, 2005
    Read the article below from AP. Fed. response was immediate and timely - within 24 hrs., contrary to recent revisionism: ****************************************************** As dawn broke on the day after Hurricane Katrina's landfall, emergency officials in the Gulf Coast states faced the sobering reality of the storm's devastation. With confirmed deaths now past 50, Mississippi's governor warned that the toll in one county alone could rise to 80. The death toll soared with the grim discovery of numerous bodies in the remains of a Biloxi, Mississippi, apartment complex. Authorities said the count of lives lost is certain to rise as rescue workers...