What was really needed was not a lot of specialists but people to secure evacuation routes and maintain order. Blanco still had over 10,000 guardsmen to do that. She only sent a few hundred.
"What was really needed was not a lot of specialists but people to secure evacuation routes and maintain order. Blanco still had over 10,000 guardsmen to do that. She only sent a few hundred."
On top of that, the Louisiana National Guard MP's on security duty at the Superdome were not issued weapons until 72 HOURS AFTER the hurricane made landfall. I smell a boneheaded "Don't issue weapons because it might upset the civilians" order that probably came from the governor.