Ft Rucker, Alabama, the helicopter school for the US Army is a couple
> hundred miles to the east.
> Ft Campbell (my old post) home of the largest AirMobile installation in the
> world is a couple hundred miles to the north.
> Ft Hood, home of the AirCav, the largest military installation in the world
> is a couple hundred miles to the west.
> Of the current ground zero.
> Each of those posts have thousands of choppers and thousands of soldiers
> TRAINED for the sort of thing that is needed in Louisiana right now.
> Each of those posts are trained constantly for immediate Red Alert status
> 24/7 anywhere in the world.
> The Combat Engineers (my old role) can blow the lid on that dome and
> Skycranes yank it off then the dragonflies can converge in continuous convoy
> extracting 15 victims at a crack all day and night long. The same engineers
> can go rooftop to rooftop punching holes and extracting victims to hovering
> dragonflies. The engineers have watercraft made for manuevering largescale
> class 60 bridge equipment, they can build endless Bailey bridges, M4TX
> bridges, Pontoon bridges, almost instantly. Again, these people do this
> stuff day in and day out in all sorts of weather under combat conditions at
> night. All army wheeled and track vehicles are setup for forging through
> water 8' deep.
>
> Why aren't they converging there in full force and equipment doing their > thing?
>
> Oh, thats right, most of the soldiers are being forced to stick their noses
> in other peoples business around the globe, and the equipment is deadlined
> or non-existent and 99% of the military funding is concentrated without
> rather than within, hence base closings, and the people that pay for the
> military are left to fend for themselves and beg for assistance from any
> source that happens by.
>
> Bush is flying over the area today and someone should take that craft down.
> HE is the person responsible for the skeleton crews left behind to answer
> the phones while the Line-dogs and Ground-pounders are babysitting sandfleas
> and other vermin.
>
> I saw it around here last year when Charley came to town and I'll bet my
> bottom dollar the same thing will occur there in LA, that the gov't will
> insure that it will be re-established BEFORE it addresses civilian concerns. >
>
Don,
I think that everyone is in agreement on this wholly, if they aren't they got their head up somewhere big time.....
Thanks for saying it Don.
SG