Posted on 07/03/2011 1:49:17 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — The Defense Department is grooming a new type of commander to coordinate the military response to domestic disasters, hoping to save lives by avoiding some of the chaos that plagued the Hurricane Katrina rescue effort.
The officers, called dual-status commanders, would be able to lead both active-duty and National Guard troops — a power that requires special training and authority because of legal restrictions on the use of the armed forces on U.S. soil.
No one commander had that authority in the aftermath of Katrina, and military and civilian experts say the lack of coordination contributed to the nightmarish delays, duplications and gaps in the huge rescue effort.
"It was just like a solid wall was between the two entities," said Georgia National Guard Col. Michael Scholes, who was part of the Katrina response.
Top Defense Department officials believe dual-status commanders are the key to reducing at least some of those failures.
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Alright! More government...what can possibly go wrong?
I hope they’re training for an EMP attack or even a nuclear attack.
I hope that when it happens, US troops will be trustworthy.
And there is a DAMN GOOD REASON FOR THIS TOO!!!
It was the governor and mayor that caused all the chaos. Then turned around and blamed Bush.
A standing army with Power against the people??? No way!!!
LLS
I hope they’re training for an EMP attack or even a nuclear attack.
I think congress didn’t allocate money needed to “harden” our power grids against an EMP attack. As far as a nuclear attack: we’re sitting ducks.
That’s what I’m thinking. That is, a standing, gay army.
That is, a standing, gay army.
Let them wear bright pink helmets. They make excellent ....
Never mind.
We have a fine group of young men and women protecting our interests. Support them in all you do and say!!
> I think congress didn’t allocate money needed to “harden”
> our power grids against an EMP attack. As far as a
> nuclear attack: we’re sitting ducks.
Oh.
So the money we’re paying for government education, government medical care, government funded abortions, government “welfare”, and government aid to countries full of people who hate us and want to kill us, all that money is well spent.
Is it just me, or is anybody else having any trouble with this?
Opening the door to use military on US soil against US citizens? That’s not going to turn out well. Another step down the road to totalitarianism.
If Katrina had hit a majority white area the story would have been off the front page in a week.
The government sure has not done anywhere near as much for the midwest tornado and flood victims as they did for those hit by Katrina.
Why isn't the media screaming about this?
Why isn't Shep Smith standing on a devastated midwestern street with tears running down his face, crying about the poor victims?
Roger Kimball asks some good questions
A Tale Of Two Disasters - By Roger Kimble
Remember the hysteria the greeted Hurricane Katrina? The denunciations of George Bush and the Army Corps of Engineers? The round-the-clock charges of racism?The unremitting media consternation about government “failure”?Compare all that with the formerly mainstream media’s response to the devastation wrought by tornadoes these last few weeks in the Midwest. In order to help you with the exercise, I pass along a few photographs from that unfolding horror, with accompanying questions that a friend sent me.
“We have a fine group of young men and women protecting our interests.”
I know we do now. What I’m concerned about is what 0bama and his buds are trying to turn it into. Putting more and more burdens on true patriots, extending even to having to wonder about the guy in the next bunk.
It also helps if you have governors, mayors, police chiefs, etc., who aren’t idiots.
Way!
And does anyone remember the devastating Nashville flood last year? The MSM barely mentioned the worst disaster in Nashville history. Obama has yet to publicly comment on that disaster.
I’ll tell you, if the MSM and liberals don’t say anything about a subject, it’s as if it never happened.
Yes, as bad as Katrina was, what about all of other disasters which have happened, especially those in “red” states???????
Yes, we have fine patriotic men and women in our military. But to be honest, we also have some of the biggest scumbags in the nation wearing the same uniforms. Our volunteer military draws from our ever-devolving society, so whatever problems and perversions we have in the civilian world, are in the military as well. Any veteran can back me on this.
Unfortunately, thanks to our Commie White House inhabitant, a lame-duck Commie Congress, and spineless "politicians in uniform", aka general officers, we will also soon have openly homosexual men and women wearing those uniforms.
It definitely ain't my father's Army anymore. Hell's bell's...it's not even my Army anymore, and I've only been out for 15 years.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
A lot of it was MSM misinformation.
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