where the flying f....is the military

[dogindia]

goof ball prez calling governors...for what.

where are the sand bags....where are the giant copters that could place them/

fema is a joke. seems like somebody should figure out how to plug the breach.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The military is in Iraq. Just where we need them...

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. We're fighting Iraqis over there because they refused to come

over here.

[MichiganVote]

2. The entire Federal government is inept. That much is obvious

[BlueManDude]

6. they gop wants it to be - so they can make a case for privatization

fema always operated quite well under clinton and james lee witt.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. And bush** took over and turned it to shit just like everything else

under his very incapable leadership. :argh: WWPGHD=What Would President Gore Have Done? bush is a loser!

[wli]

14. except they already tried to privatize disaster recovery here

And the company in charge is nowhere to be found. Looks like they just paid salaries for GOP operatives to sit on their butts and never thought they'd have to do anything.

[CelticWinter]

3. iraq n/t

[KeepItReal]

4. I've seen some Guardsmen on the feeds. Not enough, IMHO

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[earthside]

5. Where are the helicopters?

That's what I was wondering too.

There ought to be hundreds of military helicopters airlifting out those folks at the Super Dome.

But, I suppose, most of those helicopters are in ... Iraq.

[Skwmom]

9. I heard something about "40" Coast Guard helicopters. Hardly enough. n/m

[Skwmom]

7. Good question. I hope people aren't going to drown in their homes

because they can't break through their roofs. They need to send in the reserves and active duty. If we can send them to Iraq, we can send them to New Orleans.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. I saw a bunch of them with Bush this afternoon

posing for a photo op. Talk about abuse of power.

[HockeyMom]

12. National Guard,

who are SUPPOSED to help in this kind of an emergency, are now upwards of 40% to 50% in IRAQ.

[MADem]

13. USN is enroute

4 amphibs. They are setting up a task force (joint service) and using P-cola as a base of operations.

[hootinholler]

15. Ya know I've been thinking that too.

I found this in the Navy Times:

Leathernecks with the Reserve’s reinforced 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion, based in Gulfport, Miss., navigated the debris-filled streets of Biloxi late Aug. 29, plucking dazed citizens from their battered homes.

About 130 people were rescued by the Marines, who drove two AAV7 Amphibious Assault Vehicles through the destruction.

The amtrackers took the flood victims “to a designated drop-off point where they were returned to safety by civilian authorities,” according to a news release from Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport. One amtrac in the operation rescued 100 people, making four trips with 25 victims crammed into the crew compartment, a Navy spokeswoman said.

Navy Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalions 1, 7 and 133 — based in Gulfport — are clearing a 10-mile-long stretch of road to the nearby town of Pass Christian so civilian authorities could rescue stranded citizens there, the spokeswoman said.

Looking at the arial video, there are plenty of shipping containers laying around. Send a rigging crew down to them and pick them up with chinooks and drop them into the levee breach.

I don't know if a chinook could lift a slab from the I-10 bridge decking, but that would be good filler too.

-Hoot