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The Ukrainian 25th And 67th Brigades Will Be Disbanded.

http://www.geocities.com/alpomega@sbcglobal.net/TimesPicayune_Aug27_29_2005b.html Here is a cached web page with of a bunch of news briefs from BEFORE Katrina reached New Orleans. It is interesting and a bit unsetteling to read it knowing the end result. However, it does provide insight into the planning and mindset before the hurricane struck. I have to admit that I had thought the planning at the time seemed well done. Here are some quotes made before the hurricane hit: Saturday, August 27, 2005 * The mayor said he would stick with the state's evacuation plan and not officially call for residents to leave until 30 hours...

A Company, 890th returns to Picayune By WILL SULLIVAN/Item Managing Editor The emotions ran deep Saturday, in Picayune, along the side of the road from Interstate 10 to Picayune and in a hospital room in Washington, D.C., as A Company, 890th Engineer Battalion returned home from a year in Iraq. Where the public goodbye had been long, tearful and agonizing, the public welcome was relatively short so the unit's members could get reunited with their families. Spc. Carl Sampson, who had been severely wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq, listened to the welcome by telephone from his hospital bed...