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"What is so ridiculous about her statement is that they have two active Army Post in Kansas, Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth."

You're also forgetting McConnel Air Force Base in Wichita.

I was stationed at Ft. Riley in '93 when the entire midwest flooded, and they wasted no time deploying us to fill sandbags for some of the hardest hit areas. I further was assigned to a readiness group in the late '90s. Readiness Groups (since renamed Training Support Brigades or TSBs) are small units of active duty officers and NCOs scattered throughout the states with the primary mission of training, evaluating and providing technical assistance to reserve and national guard units. Because they are located all over, they also have a secondary mission of coordinating Department of Defense assetts in response to a federal disaster declaration in their area. Personnel from our group were trained as part of what was called a "defense coordinating element" (DCE), and in the event of a federal disaster we would form the DoD cell in the FEMA command post. Part of this mission was to maintain a database of DoD and State National Guard assetts so that we could locate the nearest resources available, i.e., bulldozers, trucks, MREs, etc. to be deployed to the area. Although I'm not certain, I would only imagine this function has been refined and improved upon in the post 9/11 and post Katrina era.

In other words, everything the governor has claimed from the outset has been a lie with regards to the availability of National Guard assetts and personnel once the area had been designated a federal disaster area. If they requested 2000 red mechanical pencils and the nearest ones were at a National Guard base in Montana, provisions would have been made to get those pencils to Greensburg, posthaste.

That is my point, any and all resources were available to her. I know when I was stationed at Ft Sill in the late 80’s and early 90’s that when we had tornado damage the Post Commander made resources available to Lawton even if a national disaster had not been declared.

Sean Hannity’s staff is trying to get Brownback on the show immediately, to confirm or refute this. Sean is naive if he thinks Brownback will jump into this scandal, whether he could confirm it or not. Brownback is not the type to get actively involved reagrdless of the issue, even the residents of his own state. Spin isn’t something prominent Republican Senators possess, as they have proven over the past six years.