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Thank You Secretarys Rumsfeld and Minetta.

The Department Of Defense has provided the following to Hurricane Katrina:

· 374 Department of Defense, Coast Guard, and National Guard helicopters and 76 fixed-wing aircraft are supporting the operation;

· 963 total search-and-rescue, evacuation and supply delivery missions have been flown by Department of Defense, more than 500 of them during the past 24 hours. Collectively, they have moved more than 15,000 people and almost 5,000 tons of supplies in Mississippi and Louisiana; · 75,000 people have been evacuated from the disaster area as of Sept. 4;

· Air medical evacuation and search-and-rescue operations in New Orleans are now focused on the Algiers section of the city, where approximately 3,000 individuals need to be evacuated;

· Total Department of Defense rescues, evacuations and patient treatments in New Orleans now total more than 8,000 patients transported, more than 2,000 people rescued and more than 5,000 patients treated;

· Maritime units supplied 78,000 gallons of fuel to hospitals, law enforcement, National Guard and other critical government services;

· Nearly one-fourth of the 21 million Meals Ready to Eat ordered by FEMA have been received;

· The Army Corps of Engineers is performing de-watering operations in New Orleans with pumps and controlled levee breeches;

· Seven helicopters also preparing to conduct fire fighting operations in New Orleans;

· The secretary of transportation is seeking Department of Defense concurrence to use four Maritime Ready Reserve Fleet ships as temporary housing for relief workers.

· Department of Defense is working to fill a FEMA request for communications support for the New Orleans Police Department.

· The Department of Defense has provided 745 hospital beds at New Orleans International Airport, with additional beds available aboard USS Bataan and USS Iwo Jima and 500 more beds en route to New Orleans;

· The Air Force will provide an 85-bed mobile hospital unit and air logistics support at Alexandria Airport, La., currently a staging area for rescue operations;

· Ten 250-bed Federal Medical Shelters have been established at Department of Defense installations: two at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla; four at Fort Polk, La.; and four at Meridian Naval Air Station, Miss.

All while continuing to support military and reconstruction operations in Germany, Japan, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.

To this date; The Actor - Sean Penn has only provided comic relief to improve the morale of first responders in the New Orleans area.

Posted @ September 06, 2005 11:52 AM | Current Affairs

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