I am concerned that Northern Command might have underestimated the potential Security/Refugee situation. 28000 NG's are not enough to handle the situation. You have approximately 150,000 stay behinds in New Orleans alone, plus about two million refugees spread out across the Old Confederacy, from the Pecos River in the West to Savannah in the East. They will require three, count them, three divisions on the road. I have been beating this drum for 48 hours. The 82nd Airborne in Fayetteville, the 101st Air Assault at Fort Campbell, and 2nd Marines at Camp LeJeune. Each unit is in CONUS and should be able to respond. The President should direct Northern Command to move these units at once. That's my humble freaking opinion.
This will require prepositioned refugee camps, spread out to manage population counts (no massive Jenin type camps, but small communities) with educational, hospital, and emergency facilities. This is an enormous undertaking that will require the kind of seat of the pants thinking that soldiers are good at. We have military bases dotted throughout the Old South-that's a start.
Thousands of these refugees will need employment. Time to resurrect the Works Progress Administration and place it under the supervision of the Corps of Engineers and Northern Command. Now I know that under FDR the WPA's unofficial seal was of a man in overalls leaning on a shovel. However, the Alphabet organization that DID work was the CCC, the Civilian Conservation Corps. It worked because FDR was persuaded to place it under the control of the U.S. Army, whose Chief of Staff at the time was George C. Marshall. If we follow that model, we may be able to gainfully employ tens of thousands of people whose only experience in life is "public assistance".