The Calvery is HERE (USMC)

[Sgent]

Don't know anything much, but the USMC has apparently arrived in downtown NOLA in force!!! Probably from the LDH carrier that is steaming offshore (part of a MEU).

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

[ewagner]

1. Order is job #1

so all humanitarian efforts can proceed....

National Guard and soldiers should have gone in FIRST to maintain order so the populace could be organized to PARTICIPATE in their own relief/evacuation efforts....

Damn this makes me mad!!!!

[KittyWampus]

4. thanks for your simple, yet well stated, comments on need for order

so many DU'ers haven't been able to grasp that concept.

[Triana]

12. So right ewagner!

Pisses me off too, that they weren't in there Monday afternoon before all this shit started.

They definitely have to get control and get people working together on their own survival.

[Fleshdancer]

2. The LA Governor requested 40,000 troops

she was told she would get as much as she needs for as long as she needs.

[northzax]

17. so she'll get 5,000

for 3 days? I mean we have everything the military needs in Iraq, right Chimpy?

[spuddonna]

3. Do they have WATER!?

Please God...

[Sgent]

5. Probably not

these are infantry.

However, once they can secure helioports and roads, the water can come in.

[gkhouston]

8. if they can restore order quickly (in a few hours)

it might be better to do that first. The sight of water might set off a riot, like throwing gasoline on a fire. How I wish they'd had this many boots on the ground from the start, so things wouldn't have come to such a pass and people wouldn't be so desperately hungry and thirsty.

[Winston702]

24. but they may have

ROWPU's

[CantGetFooledAgain]

6. I don't know about you guys

...but I find this to be a huge relief.

Better late than never.

[Triana]

13. Yes..me too.

As soon as they can establish order, other relief efforts can start en force - water, food, shelter.

[ck4829]

7. Cavalry.

Sorry, mispronouncing that word merits a response from me.

Great, that that the aid is coming in.

[TahitiNut]

10. Well, maybe there IS a hill with three crosses erected on it.

:shrug:

[the_spectator]

16. No, that would have been "calvary" - no "e" in it either!

By the way, this is good news - if it turns out to be true, and if the SIZE of the forces entering NO are adaquate.

By the way, that "interdictor" blog on livejournal is about one of the best for up-to-the-minute info.

I'm really surprised and concerned about the SLOWNESS of government response. It should really be about doing EVERYTHING as fast as possible, as all Issues to be dealt with intersect with and affect each other: fix the levees then restart the pumps, restore order (stop looting and violence), rescue those trapped, get an armada of busses to get the superdome people out, get water to the city, etc. etc. EVERYTHING needs to be done at the SAME TIME. I guess it really is just that NO-ONE's in charge. And no one around the Little Emperor is stepping up to the plate. I almost want to say, where's Al Haig when you need him?

[MsTryska]

9. oohRAH!

was wondering when they'd let the marines in.


I'm feeling a little less impotent now.

[DanCa]

11. semper fi as my dad would say.

There's a ray of hope at least.

[Poiuyt]

14. Isn't it against the law to use the miltary for police enforcement?

Or does this mean that NO is under marshall law?

[myrna minx]

18. Yes, NO is under martial law. n/t

[SaveAmerica]

19. Yes it is, declared last night by the mayor

[proud patriot]

15. Thank Goodness

hopefully order can be restored and people can the water
they so desperatley need .

[northzax]

20. oh, those people are just getting what they need, leave them alone

kinda looks familiar, don't it?

Nice to see you, Major Reno.

[Roland99]

21. Go Marines!!

[Redstone]

22. Did they bring any LCACs? They could ride them suckers right over

the levees into town, and bring a HELL of a lot of food and water with them.

But I don't suppose any of the authorities, the people responsible, the people in charge thought of that little thing.

Redstone

[Junkdrawer]

23. Please tell me this is not a false rumor...

I don't see word on the news websites or on WDSU...

Anyone seeing this on Cable... :shrug: