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US Military Takes Over Hurricane Relief Delivery In Puerto Rico
dailycaller.com ^ | Kerry Picket

Posted on 10/09/2017 4:38:08 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

The Department of Defense took over the distribution of hurricane relief from government officials in Puerto Rico this weekend after local mayors failed to appropriately disperse the emergency items to the territory’s 78 municipalities, The Miami Herald reported Sunday.

According to The Herald, food, water, and medical supplies were previously delivered to 10 regional staging sites in Puerto Rico, but the mayors did not coordinate properly to distribute the large containers of relief at the staging sites.

Instead, 10 to 20 soldiers will be posted in every municipality with vehicles and logistical support, where they will deliver relief to every neighborhood.

“We need to push it directly to the barrio to ensure that everyone’s getting it,” Brig. Gen. Jose J. Reyes, assistant adjutant general of the Puerto Rico National Guard said. “They will have some vehicles. They will have radio communications as well as logistics support…. They are going to be living there. They are going to be operating 24/7.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fema; hurricanerelief; puertorico; third100days; trumpdod; trumpfema; usmilitary; whitefish
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1 posted on 10/09/2017 4:38:08 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Did the mayors have a plan, of was the plan to wait on Uncle Sam?


2 posted on 10/09/2017 4:40:54 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Maybe the mayors’ plan was to sell supplies to the highest bidders.


3 posted on 10/09/2017 4:43:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Pathetic! This is what you get when you have Dems in charge.


4 posted on 10/09/2017 4:45:35 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: mewzilla
Maybe the mayors’ plan was to sell supplies to the highest bidders.

Or be like Venezuela, and ensure that supplies only go to neighborhoods which reliably demonstrate support for the Establishment.

5 posted on 10/09/2017 4:49:30 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: RoosterRedux

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/917172144710103040


6 posted on 10/09/2017 4:52:25 AM PDT by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this tagline)
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To: RoosterRedux

Democrats are probably behind this. They want to make Trump look bad.

See how compassionate the left is?


7 posted on 10/09/2017 4:53:11 AM PDT by dforest
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To: RoosterRedux

How long before the Democrats complain that Trump is using the hurricane as an excuse for an invasion and occupation force?


8 posted on 10/09/2017 4:59:32 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: RoosterRedux
Any chance that the island's residents will compare/contrast the corrupt indigenous FUBAR vs actual efficient HELP and draw the appropriate political conclusions ?

My guess is that it's doubtful, but one can dream . . .

9 posted on 10/09/2017 5:01:50 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: RoosterRedux

The PR’s have proven they cannot rule themselves...the Army will do the job that their democrat leaders are too corrupt to do.


10 posted on 10/09/2017 5:03:39 AM PDT by Dont tread and Live
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To: miss marmelstein

This is what you should expect from just every single island in the Caribbean. It’s a third-world zone and they can’t run things like this. I’ve known Puerto Ricans while in the military, and they all vouch that once you leave the island and experience the real world, you don’t come back.

The US should write up an exit plan....give them two billion in cash, and declare it a non-US territory. If you don’t....the next hurricane that comes through....you might as well appoint some general in charge for six months and by-pass the politicians.


11 posted on 10/09/2017 5:03:49 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: RoosterRedux

It took this long to realize that PR’s weren’t going to help themselves?

They could give Muslims lessons in ingratitude.


12 posted on 10/09/2017 5:04:19 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: mewzilla

Graft aside.....

I would argue the mayors lacked the authority, the wherewithall, to get volunteers to do the mental and physical work necessary to do the job. The mayors couldn’t force a disorganized populace to act in a functional manner.

It happens in all such disasters. Most locals just plain lack the organizational capability to function


13 posted on 10/09/2017 5:07:59 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: RoosterRedux

Good one!


14 posted on 10/09/2017 5:08:16 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

The mayors’ plan was to benefit themselves by graft and corruption. Trump’s plan is to distribute the food.


15 posted on 10/09/2017 5:09:05 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Dont tread and Live

Should’ve been Trump’s first move.
Put the Army or Army Guard in charge...


16 posted on 10/09/2017 5:10:44 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: RoosterRedux

So far the Oath Keepers have been the only help and first people these villages have seen in 2 weeks!!


17 posted on 10/09/2017 5:15:51 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: RoosterRedux
Doing the job lazy people won't do.

It should be Puerto Ricans doing this work. Damn...pi**** me off.

Same cr** "victims" of Katrina pulled.

18 posted on 10/09/2017 5:19:13 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Yup, the mayors have a tried and true plan.

The Bill and Hillary Clinton Haitian disaster relief plan and they have been following it since day one

The Clinton Haiti plan

1- Engineer a humanitarian disaster
2- Appropriate a massive multi billion disaster relief bill in Congress with no spending controls and mechanism to audit
Steal the country blind while it's people wallow in misery and starve

19 posted on 10/09/2017 5:20:54 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: bert

You make a good point! But I’m still betting corruption.


20 posted on 10/09/2017 5:21:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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