"Many shots fired at helos, media silence/downplay notwithstanding. CG & NG fly in pairs, one rescues/fights fires, other provides cover. Helo parts shot off. Stopped evac at superdome as gangbangas firing at helos. Pilots operate 120 sec max in LZ: less time in sights, lower shootdown risk. Miraculous if flying only one week, as predicted. More like month++. Airlines aside, mil av fuel scarce. 90's chickens home to roost compounding leadership failures in LA & elsewhere. MS recovery sooner than LA, despite total destruction of 50 miles of coast to 5+ blocks inland. "
Speaking of that....
Anyone beside me notice that the Superdome Food convoy footage shows an UP-Armoured Hummvee leading?
The LA Lt General Honore seems to be a really good guy. This is also something that President Bush would do.
"As she was walking in the street with Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, the person in charge of the military operation, CNN's Barbara Starr reported seeing one young woman with twin babies in her arms.
"She was trying to walk in this terrible heat, and she apparently was so exhausted the babies were half falling out of her arms," Starr said.
Gen. Honore, she said, "went up to this woman, and he said, 'We're going to get you help.' And he took both of those babies, handed them off to his soldiers, said, 'Take these babies,' and we got on a Coast Guard ship."
The mother and the babies are now getting medical care, Starr said."
good post.
you can see the liberal media outlets now downplaying the looting and the thugs shooting up the town, because they know that plays against the political agenda they seek. americans have zero tolerance for that. they now want to portray NO as a town full of nice people waiting for aid that can't get there because the federal government is incompetent, and doesn't care about them because of their race.
they must have 300 or more blackhawk type helos there by now...they emptied California....
every C5, C17, C141, and C130 in the country is on duty for this relief effort.....the air controllers report 300 planes arriving or leaving the N.O. area at any one time.
After all these days, I am still amazed that the rescue op in an American city must be conducted as a wartime operation, with military cover for rescuers.