Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
🚨Just spoke to a US Military insider about the efforts for Hurricane Helene. Here’s what I was told:
The 82nd Airborne Division is known as America’s “Global” Response Force. They have the ability to have thousands of paratroopers anywhere in the world in 18 hours. They provide combat capability, but also helicopter airlift, stand up hospitals, and other support.
They responded to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
The 82nd responded overnight to fly thousands of Afghans out of the country during the withdrawal.
Less than 1/3 of the entire division is on the “global” alert status. Meaning there are thousands of members potentially available to render aid with a simple command.
So the question is why even a fraction of the 82nd can’t be used to support relief efforts in the same state in which they are stationed (North Carolina)? For whatever reason, they are unavailable for this effort.
As of now, they haven’t been alerted for hurricane support.
They can be on the ground and in the sky within hours, organizing airlifts, building hospitals, bringing aid.
But they aren’t.
Biden-Harris can activate them if they so wished.
3:25 PM · Sep 30, 2024
Andrew Wong 🇺🇸
@ayankeeoriginal
Please ask the same questions about the 2d Marine Div at Camp Lejeune, NC. The USMC describe themselves as the nation’s 911 force. Hurrican Helene is a 911 disaster.
So, like the 82d Airborne, where are they and what are they doing?
“Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune[1] (/ləˈʒɜːrn/ lə-ZHURN or /ləˈʒuːn/ lə-ZHOON)[2][3] is a 246-square-mile (640 km2)[4] United States military training facility in Jacksonville, North Carolina.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Corps_Base_Camp_Lejeune
4:16 PM · Sep 30, 2024
Someone mentioned to me earlier that the hurrican could have actually been directed to these areas, and amplified.
Of course I thought this was ludicrous, but then I remembered seeing the massive floods in Saudi Arabia, caused by them seeding the clouds to bring rain. It was horrendous.
So now I’m wondering if it is actually possible for the storm’s path to be controlled. I used to think this stuff was crazy, but it seems that anything and everything is possible these days.
The massive amount of rain, much of it falling in Trump country, and the seeming lack of concern about it is very troubling.
“For whatever reason, they are unavailable for this effort.”
Interesting.
On the local news, the city’s PR guy said we have national guard, firefighters, structural engineers, search and rescue from all over. This is considered a disaster area and everyone needed to go home and quit looking at the downtown bridges, etc.
Yeah we were there too, it was the most crowded I’ve seen the downtown area except when big name country bands play at the covered bridge park.
I think NC got it a LOT worse and can use any extra help. I think water and power has been restored here in most areas and flood water has receded.