[MarMema]

OTOH, airdrops and triage centers should be routinely trained into first responders.

Everything I have been trained to do, I have not seen done in NO.

[EBH]

And someone needs to answer for that, when this is all over. Right now the powers that be are trying to recover from the vacume that was created. People are dieing from...the incompetence exhibited in the beginning.

[section9]

Sort of a tactical problem: where to airdrop. Only place inside might be to establish a forward area in the French Quarter. In fact, I rather expect an LZ to be set up there: it's dry land.

A LOT of what you were trained to do has not been done by a local force of first responders that simply did not respond. Large percentages of NOPD have simply bugged out. Others were simply outgunned by technicals with AK's and other automatic and semiautomatic weapons.

Disgusting is the only phrase that comes to my mind. Bottom line? Payment in full is being made for decades of corrupt, venal local and state government that goes back to the days of Huey Long's faux populism.

Only the military and the out of towners will be able to these good people out of the mess they're in.

Be Seeing You,

Chris