[Major_Risktaker]

except the 101st is in Iraq right now....

The 101st is in American and can be deployed ASAP if called upon.

However, I believe food and water air drops were needed yesterday at the Dome.

Anything is better than nothing and nothing is what they have received for days now.

Operation Unified Assistance

Indonesians from the village of Tjalang, Sumatra, Indonesia, rush towards a SH-60 Seahawk helicopter, assigned to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 2, as the helicopter touches down to drop off food supplies, Jan. 8, 2005.

Helicopters assigned to Carrier Air Wing 2 and sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln are supporting Operation Unified Assistance, the humanitarian effort in the wake of the tsunami that struck Southeast Asia. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Philip A McDaniel

[MikefromOhio]

you know what, you are right...

the 82nd is there now...I got them confused...

the 101st will be there by the end of the year.

I think, because I read this story the other day: http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=7740

that is how I confused it.

[nicmarlo]

I believe food and water air drops were needed yesterday at the Dome. Anything is better than nothing and nothing is what they have received for days now

Exactly what I was discussing with co-workers today....there's been no water/food drops....but we have the capability to do so outside the U.S. Makes no sense to me at all.

[Blessed]

>Anything is better than nothing and nothing is what they have received for days now.

2 days since levee broke.

>Anti-Submarine Squadron 2, as the helicopter touches down to drop off food supplies, Jan. 8, 2005.<

2 weeks after disaster.