I am not a military expert, nor do I possess the writing skills to address everything I see that's just plain wrong in the following two articles posted as news stories at Army Times.
Two questions torn from the swirling hurricane of questions howling in my head, ripping at my soul:
Who told this General what his mission was?
Did anyone in the chain of command have any idea what these AMERICAN TAXPAYING CITIZENS had been through during the five days they spent waiting for help?
September 02, 2005
Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans
Evacuation complete, Superdome lies in squalor
READ these two articles and tell me if there isn't even more for us to be concerned about the mindset at the top of this, and I especially would like to hear from
experienced military veterans with NATIONAL GUARD training.
Sample statement from 2nd article:
Sgt. 1st Class Ron Dixon recently returned from a deployment to Afghanistan with the Oklahoma National Guard's 1345th Transportation Company. He said the biggest difference he sees is that the people in Afghanistan wanted to help themselves, while many of the evacuees just want others to help them.
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Sample statement from 1st article:
NEW ORLEANS -- Combat operations are underway on the streets "to take this city back" in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
"This place is going to look like Little Somalia," Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard's Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. "We're going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control."...