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Originally Posted by Nickatilynx
I'm sorry but I think the response of the military was ummm gay.
Why didn't they start helicoptering in water..loading some hercules and parachuting in supplies.
Having a platoon of soldiers patrolling a given area , say 6 city blocks (isn't there the equivelent of 6 divisions deployed ?
Why not one rapid response unit of 100 men to both the conference and astrodome.Aren't they suppopsed to be able to reach anywhere within 6 hours?
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Precisely!!
They are near, in, by swamps. They are off the Mississippi and the lake. How the hell did all of a sudden everything from boats, coast guard boats off the delta, rafts with motorboards, pontoons, hovercraft and those big things with the huge fans on the back they use in the swamps -- And all that stuff suddenly not exist anymore????
And as you said, parachuting. They couldn't parachute down humdees, ATVs, whatever and troops with them? We have helicopters with night vision ... We can do all this amazing shit ... We can send Seals in at night to somewhere abroad. We can send paratroopers into Iraq. Delta force into the mountains of Afganistan ... but we can't do fuck-all in our own damned country?!?!?!
Sorry. I am so utterly livid I don't even know how to express myself without cursing a blue streak right now. The incompentance has exceeded all bounds and hyperbole.