Nothing like sending in the cavalry after the shootin’s over.
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Seems like it is taking awhile. These units are supposed to be able to “fight tonight.”
Well, maybe they can help provide relief to the Florida Guard and citizen volunteers who have been on the ground for some time and must be tired by now.
Wow a thousand troops to help people
<>Roughly 500 soldiers with the 20th Engineer Brigade . . . left Fort Liberty on Oct. 3 for Asheville.<>
Almost a week after the catastrophic flooding.
NC needs a governor and the US needs a President.
About time for some good news.
1,000? That’s not very many.
Need many more, especially helicopter and engineer assets.
Interesting to note no mention of who and/or how they got their orders. No mention of Joey or commieLa.
That was Jimi Henrix’s old outfit.
He enlisted on May 31, 1961, and was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, where he was stationed in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. One of the complaints against his behavior:
True to his calling, he often played his guitar while off duty, which didn’t endear him with the other men in the barracks, who just wanted a good night’s sleep. His constant guitar noodling led one of his commanding officers to comment, “This is one of his faults, because his mind apparently cannot function while performing duties and thinking about his guitar.”
Hendrix departed from the military in July 1962, completing just over a year of his initial three-year commitment. His discharge, ostensibly attributed to a fractured ankle sustained during his 26th parachute jump, was a point of speculation for decades.
ABOUT TIME. They are just saving face now, the damage has been done.
Or... Is this martial law being implemented?
Is the Party feeling the heat?
So where are they?
One source. I will wait and believe it when people start noticing that they are there.
OR... FEMA got word back they were facing significant resistance to their control and need assistance maintaining order.
it wouldn’t surprise me if the next thing we hear would be truckers and anyone trying to bring supplies or labor to help are being offloaded and turned around / denied entrance by US military forces thereby shutting down civilian aid.
It is not like they cannot tell when a hurricane is coming.
There are well over one million people in the Appalachian disaster area. The confirmed death toll is already larger than that of Katrina and will continue to rise if adequate search efforts are conducted.
Much worse is that many survivors are physically cutoff from access to help and without food, water, or shelter. The death toll for that population rises with every passing day and will likely exceed the number of people directly killed by the storm.
Deploying a mere 1,000 troops after more than a week is a studied insult to the survivors.
All of this is intentional.
Unfortunately, they’re probably being sent in to enforce FEMA’s edicts.
The feds only had to be shamed into it. Uh oh. If we let bodies rot in the street and citizens starve to death because the bridges are out and roads blocked or gone, and it gets widely known—GASP! ORGAN CHORD! Less people will vote for us. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are making us look bad. NOOOOOOO! So they finally stop pretending to help and send real help. What they should have done day one.
The main story at the link, which said Katrina changed the way the military responded to disasters, has been archived and the wayback machine can't find it either. But this chart said there were 60,000 military forces on the ground by September 7th, which was 8 days after Katrina.
https://dod.defense.gov/News/Special-Reports/0815_katrina10/
It’s about time! The soldiers have wanted to go in, for days.
Nobody gave the orders to move until almost a week after the event
Compare this to Katrina and Hurricane Andrew in 92 (I was there for that one). We got there a lot quicker
Just gross incompetence on the part of the Biden-Harris Administration and FEMA
