[IP] more on isn't the Louisiana National Guard is needed at HOME?!

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Brock Meeks <Brock.Meeks@msnbc.com>
Date: August 31, 2005 10:47:45 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: RE: [IP] isn't the Louisiana National Guard is needed at HOME?!


I did a story on this, Dave.  The Guard troop strength in LA alone is at
65 percent of all guard members; 35 percent of them are in Iraq and are,
in fact, due home next month.

There are a total of 124,000 guard troops across 17 states either
activated or ready to be if needed.

Even with the heavy rotation into Iraq and Afghanistan, no state has
less than 50 percent of its total available guard enlistment available
at any one time.  This was an agreement made with the Department of
Defense.  And in fact, most states have 75 percent of their guard at
home.

All this according to official deployment and enlistment figures
released by the Pentagon and in interviews with the National Guard.

In addition, regular military are now being mobilized (some 22,000 at
last count) to come and help with the effort.

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Begin forwarded message:

From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
Date: August 31, 2005 12:38:30 AM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Cc: marianne mueller <mrm@sonic.net>
Subject: isn't the Louisiana National Guard is needed at HOME?!


These were comments just received from a friend -- fowarded for IP
with her  explicit permission.

--jim


At 5:57 PM -0700 8/30/05, marianne mueller wrote:


> Given
>   people trapped in attics
>   water rising
>   people trapped in areas now flooding
>   aligators, snakes ... in water
>   people in Superdome stranded, no water to drink
>   hospitals evacuating
>   looters
>   outbreak of disease only hours away, given water everywhere
>   possibly bodies from graveyards joining the soup
>   more than a million (?) people stranded
>
> is there any possible reason not to order every last National Guard
> from Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi back home from Iraq?  They've
> been training for a long time, many of them, to deal with disaster
> at home.
>
> Someone tell me why they need to be in Iraq.
>
> I think this is worse than 9/11, this is our tsunami.
>
> I'm waiting to hear what our leaders have thought up, as
> a way to start dealing with this.   It is really time for
> creative leadership.
>
> Marianne



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