Louisiana: SUPPLIES IN DEMAND-many of its high-water trucks remain in Iraq

[babylonsister]

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1180508968134910.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

SUPPLIES IN DEMAND
The Louisiana National Guard has all the troops it needs for hurricane season, but many of its high-water trucks remain in Iraq
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
By Paul Purpura

Twenty months after its depleted ranks of soldiers and airmen were pressed into service for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Louisiana National Guard still lacks hundreds of military troop trucks that can handle high water as it faces a new storm season that begins Friday.

"We're below 50 percent for authorized equipment, and that includes everything," said Lt. Col. Pete Schneider, Louisiana Guard spokesman. "And we continue to receive new equipment that comes off the line."

The array of equipment includes everything from trucks to wrenches.

"Do I have enough for a major event?" Schneider said of the vehicles. "No. For a smaller event, yes, we're good."


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[idgiehkt]

1. thanks for posting this

When will it end (this nonsense in Iraq)... :cry:

[hobbit709]

2. Just how often do you need a highwater truck

in the middle of the fucking desert? Caesar Georgius I sends them to Iraq with the wrong equipment, inadequate equipment, bad equipment and then doesn't replace their losses or even ships what's left of their equipment back when they rotate back. The incompetent fumbling starts at the top and goes down through the career management yesmen clowns at the Pentagon(they used to be career military). Then of course he blames everyone else but himself. AARRGGHH!!