More of the non-help by the Feds (Air Force) -- Aaron Brown is getting snowed with these tonight -- BTW AMC is Air Mobility Command:
PRESS RELEASE -- Secretary of the Air Force, Office of Public Affairs
Release No. 070805
August 31, 2005
AMC answering humanitarian call in aftermath of Katrina
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. - The Tanker Airlift Control Center here started generating missions Air Mobility Command aircrews will fly supporting Hurricane Katrina relief operations in Louisiana and Mississippi.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, through Northern Command and U.S. Transportation Command, asked for airlift support to fly relief supplies to the stricken region, said Col. Jeff Franklin, the center controller working hurricane relief mission taskings.
"We've already tasked two aeromedical evacuation airlift missions to fly from Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., to (Lackland AFB) in San Antonio," he said. "In addition, AMC has been tasked to fly five other strategic airlift missions into Lafayette Regional Airport in Lafayette, La. Four of those are C-5 (Galaxys) and the other is a C-17 (Globemaster III)."
A mix of total force Airmen from active-duty, Guard and Reserve bases nationwide are flying the missions, the colonel said. They will move everything from inflatable boats to urban search and rescue team members and their equipment. Because airports and airfields in the Biloxi and New Orleans areas are without power because of extensive damage from the hurricane's high winds, rain and flooding, aircraft are primarily flying cargo and people into Lafayette, located northwest of the coastal areas.
There has not been a staging area established for incoming cargo and people yet, the colonel said. However, the 615th Contingency Response Wing at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., is flying into Lafayette on the first C-5 Galaxy aircraft.
"They will serve as an advance team to help receive the aircraft and cargo, and will stay there throughout," Colonel Franklin said.
The AMC vice commander, Lt. Gen. Christopher A. Kelly, said the command is ready and committed to supporting the relief operations.
"AMC Airmen are capable of providing the emergency response support needed to help the region begin recovering from this devastating hurricane," he said. "They proved their capabilities and worth during tsunami relief operations in December and January. And, just like it was then, airlift will be a central part of this operation.
The general said he command will "work hard" to meet every request any of the agency "sends our way."
I am going to repost this comment that I made elsewhere, and it deals with the sudden blame game(And I am not a Bush Bot):
The only mistake GW made during this was that he did not publicize what a bunch of incompetent idiots were running the state of Louisiana, and the city of NO. He should have done that while he was twisting there arms to evacuate. If the federal government had not twisted the arms of these people to evacuate the city as this hurricane was coming then many more people would have died. It just perturbs me that the Smucks of this world can shift the blame away from themselves and pile it on the ones that really tried to help. And the media will buy into it every time. The truth is recorded in history. All of the posts on the hurricane threads here on FR and several other forums are all the proof anyone needs for the truth. They were recorded in real time and will always represent the truth as it happened.