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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.

Interesting, out of all the government funded agencies, you single out the military for your rant. Why is that?

Could your rant not also apply to every other government funded employee? Why are you not concerned about the lack of response by all the other government agencies. Combined, all other government employees outnumber the DOD by 10 to 1.

If you think Tyndall AFB or Eglin AFB have the type of resources that are required in this emergency, then you simply don't know what you are ranting about.