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Default Where is the media coverage?

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The Nat Guard always provides help. They are auxiliary cops.
The Navy is doing squat.
20 guys with front end loaders can do more good clearing roads than
the
entire Navy, and they'll do it before the Navy gets a single ship
underway. Navy isn't needed.

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Here's a short list of US Navy participation in providing help and aid
immediately following Katrina:

- More than 9,790 Americas were rescued or evacuated by the 50+ Navy
aircraft from deployed ships, as well as NAS Pensacola and Atlanta.
- 17 Navy ships on station including Iwo Jima, Bataan and USNS
Comfort, which treated 1,000 patients.
- More than 3,400 Seabees deployed to the region and helped clearing
roads, disposing of debris and building shelters.
- Ship?s small boats alone performed 380 evacuations, 28 MEDEVACS and
six rescues.
- They delivered 68,900 pound of food and 113,000 pounds of water.
-Onboard aircraft flew 1,730 sorties.
- The Navy took care of the more than 800 Navy families who lost
everything.

All that within a few days.


Sandy, not Katrina. NY/NJ isn't a 3rd-world environment.
Navy isn't evacuating anybody or providing any medical care.
Locals have all that under control.
Maybe the Seebees can help clear debris - if they ever get there.
Not knocking the Navy. It's a different disaster. Any help they can
provide will be welcomed. But nobody's stranded on rooftops.
Here's the Navy role in Sandy relief efforts straight from the horse's
mouth.
http://navylive.dodlive.mil/2012/10/...-sandy-update/


 
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