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CNN: Pentagon announces that 4200 military policy are going to be deployed to New Orleans. That's good. Why wasn't that done yesterday?

It was probably being done two days ago. You just don't snap your fingers and magically make all the military people appear somewhere. Plans have to be made where to deploy them. This involves assesing where they will most be needed which first includes a damage assesment. Transportation has to be arranged, supplies have to be procured, etc. etc. etc. Don't fall for the MSM spin on this.

"You just don't snap your fingers and magically make all the military people appear somewhere. Plans have to be made where to deploy them. This involves assesing where they will most be needed which first includes a damage assesment. Transportation has to be arranged, supplies have to be procured, etc. etc. etc. Don't fall for the MSM spin on this."

Thanks for the sanity and realism. I am fed up with the second-guessing and backseat driving and magical thinking that even many FReepers are indulging in.

Pentagon announces that 4200 military policy are going to be deployed to New Orleans.

Are these NG or Regular units?? If I understood what I heard yesterday, in order to deploy Regulars, the President would have to declare a State of Insurrection.

Can this alert be considered a "heads-up" for that declaration?

Any historians out there know if this has ever been done before?

Don't fall for the MSM spin on this.

I'm not. Anyone can see for themselves on the TV screen.

Look, most of the fed response has been wonderful and amazing. But there are legitimate questions as to the size and timing of the arrival of sufficient security forces. And no doubt there is much going on behind the scenes, and it is ultimately going to be just a question of time, not if. But whether or not anyone wants to admit it, the longer the lawlessness is visible to viewers across the country and the globe, with rescue efforts appearing to be at a standstill, the more patience will run out. Fair or not.

Thank you. Apparently everyone in the MSM seems to think thre President can just snap his fingers right after a hurricane has hit and make 10,000 troops and all their supplies and equipment appear instantly. In the first 24 hours, all the roads were impassable and the storm was still hitting inland areas where many of the supplies were. Tornadoes and high weinds and torrential rains throughout Alabama and Georgia made convoying unsafe. Yesterday was really the first day that it was realistic to expect supplies to start arriving, and they did.

Pennsylvania is sending 2500 National Guard troops. But they have to be called, they have to have time to get their stuff together and alert their employers, they have to go to the depots, they have to load the trucks, and then they have to drive 1000 miles to the Gulf Coast. That is not all going to happen in one or even two days, folks! FEMA has huge warehouses in Atlanta, but they have to have drivers for the trucks and the trucks have to be loaded. This takes time!

What I find less excusable is that apparently nobody has shown up from the Pensacola Naval Air Station or Eglin or Tyndall Air Force Bases. These are huge installations only a two-hour drive away from Gulfport. Surely there are personnel and supplies at these bases that could be useful. I can't believe the commanders of those bases do not have the authority to respond to emergencies in the vicinity without 27 orders going from the governors up to the President and down through the bowels of the Pentagon.