Florida Guard - Helping with Hurricane or in Iraq?

[LeftHander]

Does anyone know the effect of the Iraq war and hurricane disaster aid in FLorida.. WOuldn't Guard and reserve units be mobilized in times of disaster like a hurricane to help provide medical, logistics, security etc...


Has sending all our troops and equipment to Iraq made it more difficult to help ourselves in a times of disaster?

[RivetJoint]

1. I went to the Florida National Guard webpage

to check on this. Seems like they are being used to help out.

[LeftHander]

2. THat is good to hear....

I hope that the Iraq war hasn't dimished the capacity of our Guard units to provide the traditional help in time of natural disasters.

Probably tough to find out what units are deployed that would of been able to provide aid.

[RivetJoint]

4. Check the National Guard page.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. People down in Punta Gorda

are saying that no one has come to help them as of Sunday. I have seen no evidence of their presence in any of the news reports. I think Jeb sent 1000 - 2000 NG but that's not anywhere near enough NG to do much good.

For right now people are coping as best they can and helping each other.

I was over in Daytona Beach and the local police were the only officials that I saw. The electric is out all over the place and a lot of major intersections don't have working traffic lights, so that's mostly where you see the police.

It is amazing but I saw many stores with glass fronts that had been completely blown out and yet there was absolutely no looting. It is great to see everyone doing what they can to help each other. It is obvious that Jeb and George aren't going to do much to help us, except to use us for their photo ops. Just like on 9-11 and the 2003 black-out, we are on our own.

[Junkdrawer]

5. FLASH: 5 Guardsmen spotted by 10 news crews....

To all those worry-warts who thought that sending ALL the Guard to Iraq was a bad idea.

Well, here they are:



And from a different angle: