As a former Coast Guardsman, we know how to get things done with limited resources. The service always has been the lowest on the totem pole for ships, equipment and has been the stepchild by being shifted from agency to agency. Heck, the ship I was first stationed on was commissioned in the 1930's, was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, was sent to VietNam, and was finally retired in the 1980's!
WWL Updates as they come in on Katrina
10:43 AM CDT on Friday, September 2, 2005
Tom Planchet
10:43 A.M. - WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's too early to predict how long it will take to remove the floodwater from New Orleans because the Army Corps of Engineers is still planning how to accomplish the feat, its commander said Friday. "We're certainly talking weeks," Lt. Gen. Carl Strock told reporters at the Pentagon.