Actually this is the direct result of Katrina that Bush was so wrongly slammed about.
For peoples information Federal troops are deployed accross the US all the time and always have been. Federal troops took over and ran Yellowston nation park for its first 30 years under general Sheridan. Federal troops are deployed to major forest fires all the time. All emergency managment chain of comands start out local and move up all the way to the federal level. I have worked in and around emergency management for years. Nearly all search and rescues start at the local level until the resources are overwhelmed and mutual aid is called in from othe counties, state levels then up to federal levels. Scott AFB in IL is the headquarters for federal Search and rescue. From there it can even go up to asking for mutual aid from foreign countries through the state department.
So much infra structure was destroyed during Katrina that mutual aid came from all over the county including my CA guard unit.
The intra agency fighting and conflicts with the chain of command are what messed up the Katrina response and Bush took hell for it though this is one of the few areas Bush didn't need it. There was no real command and control to coordinate all the resourses of which there was plenty. It was used as way to slam Bush politically because he didn't take complete command control through the federal military which is the only agency that has the experiance and tools to control that large amount of resources in an environment where all infrastructure had been destroyed. So now we have laws being pushed to allow the feds to take over an operation where it does not need to.
For peoples information Federal troops are deployed accross the US all the time and always have been. Federal troops took over and ran Yellowston nation park for its first 30 years under general Sheridan. Federal troops are deployed to major forest fires all the time. All emergency managment chain of comands start out local and move up all the way to the federal level. I have worked in and around emergency management for years. Nearly all search and rescues start at the local level until the resources are overwhelmed and mutual aid is called in from othe counties, state levels then up to federal levels. Scott AFB in IL is the headquarters for federal Search and rescue. From there it can even go up to asking for mutual aid from foreign countries through the state department.
So much infra structure was destroyed during Katrina that mutual aid came from all over the county including my CA guard unit.
The intra agency fighting and conflicts with the chain of command are what messed up the Katrina response and Bush took hell for it though this is one of the few areas Bush didn't need it. There was no real command and control to coordinate all the resourses of which there was plenty. It was used as way to slam Bush politically because he didn't take complete command control through the federal military which is the only agency that has the experiance and tools to control that large amount of resources in an environment where all infrastructure had been destroyed. So now we have laws being pushed to allow the feds to take over an operation where it does not need to.
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