Plato said:
Kurt, you may want to drop this.
Nope.
Troops or national guard, it takes
time to get it going. No matter what president.
Q General, Jamie McIntyre from CNN. To what extent is this
additional assistance you've outlined today a response to a request from
the state governors in Louisiana, Mississippi? And if so, can you tell
us when specifically you got that request?
GEN. HONORÉ: Yes, sir. The process starts, sir, in this
particular event, with a request Friday of last week, as the approximate
date for defense coordinating offices to be established in Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Those were established in those
states over Friday [8/26] and Saturday.
Q Sir, I'm specifically interested in how soon after the
hurricane hit and the extent of the damage became known did the
governors request additional assistance above and beyond what they had
requested before?
GEN. HONORÉ: Sir, that started to happen on Saturday, as
the hurricane was approaching, and was executed with the movement of my
headquarters on Sunday to Mississippi, where we established a joint --
JTF headquarters here in Mississippi with a forward cell of the 5th
United States Army in Louisiana. And on Sunday we established
JTF-Katrina, with myself as the task force commander.
And since that time, we've continued to flow naval air and
Army helicopter support and other assets, as requested by the governor,
through FEMA. And that is the process, and you know that works. The
governor identified a requirement. It goes to FEMA. That requirement
is sent to Northern Command, my boss, Admiral Keating, as parallel to
General McNeill at Forces Command. And we have started to flow the
forces to your region. Over.
MR. DI RITA: You know -- it's Larry DiRita -- I think what
people are interested in, if you know, is when specifically or if indeed
did the governors specifically ask for additional security forces and
when that might have been? And if you don't know that, we'll try and
find it, but that would be -- I think that's a little more refined
aspect of what the reporter's asking for.
GEN. HONORÉ: Yeah, that was incremental. The security
force piece was executed through a process called EMAC. That started on
Sunday, a collaboration between the adjutant general and the National
Guard Bureau to flow additional capabilities to Louisiana and to
Mississippi. That flow started approximately around Sunday. Forces
started moving once the eye of the hurricane had passed and we could
start moving forces in and assist the states, Alabama pushed forces into
Mississippi as well as forces from Texas started to flow into Louisiana,
as well as other states. But that's the approximate phase of the
operation. Again, that was executed through National Guard arrangements
to move National Guard capability where it's needed. And that is what
is happening, an extension of that, now.
The DOD capability was based on requests that came from FEMA
for additional ability to assist in search and rescue, and that was
called a mission assignment. Those started on Sunday. And we were here
on Sunday, and by Monday, the Bataan was present, as well as federal
helicopters started arriving Monday to assist in the search and rescue
and the sustainment operation, that that is the timeline as it was
executed in the process.
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Troops were starting to be asked for a full week before the main force
on the came in rolling it on truck on Friday 9/2.
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