The Bataan will be the Quarantine Ship/Death Ship for those with disease

[KoKo]

from the Hurricane. It's sitting off the Gulf Coast...hasn't been used..but it will be there when the disease breaks out...just in case.

That's the only excuse I can find for why this ship has not been used. There were reports that it followed Katrina into the Gulf but has only been used for some helicopter rescue launches.

I don't know if this is a good thing, or a bad thing...but something about it I find :scared: Given that Chertoff looks like a "Dr. Death" and that ass Brown is totally incompetent.

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Navy ship nearby underused
Craft with food, water, doctors needed orders

By Stephen J. Hedges
Tribune national correspondent
Published September 4, 2005

ON THE USS BATAAN -- While federal and state emergency planners scramble to get more military relief to Gulf Coast communities stricken by Hurricane Katrina, a massive naval goodwill station has been cruising offshore, underused and waiting for a larger role in the effort.

The USS Bataan, a 844-foot ship designed to dispatch Marines in amphibious assaults, has helicopters, doctors, hospital beds, food and water. It also can make its own water, up to 100,000 gallons a day. And it just happened to be in the Gulf of Mexico when Katrina came roaring ashore.

The Bataan rode out the storm and then followed it toward shore, awaiting relief orders. Helicopter pilots flying from its deck were some of the first to begin plucking stranded New Orleans residents.

But now the Bataan's hospital facilities, including six operating rooms and beds for 600 patients, are empty. A good share of its 1,200 sailors could also go ashore to help with the relief effort, but they haven't been asked. The Bataan has been in the stricken region the longest of any military unit, but federal authorities have yet to fully utilize the ship.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509040369sep04,1,4144825.story

[MnFats]

1. it does have a rather ominous name, doesn't it?

for those with a little knowledge of WWII history.......

named for a place irrevocably associated with the phrase 'death march.'

[OneGrassRoot]

2. Was just thinking that.............n/t

[KoKo]

4. It seems odd to have named a ship after such a terrible scene of death

and depravation...doesn't it.

[MADem]

7. The name memorializes the heroism of the US and Filipino troops

http://www.bataan.navy.mil/history.htm

It honors the "battling bastards of Bataan" -- it is not intended to be a negative, but more a memorial. You don't forget those who fell--seeing as it transports Marines, who are more often than not at the tip of the spear, the name is appropriate.

That broad class of amphibs have names like that--Iwo Jima, Okinawa (which was often termed the Broken-awa because it had power plant issues at inconvenient times)...the LPDs were named after cities--Denver, Juneau, etc.

The skipper of that ship is from TN. She is about seventy five percent of the way through her command tour, thus, she is very experienced.

[MnFats]

18. I understand that, of course.

I was simply pointing out a certain irony.

[Spazito]

3. I also believe this, and the 3 cruise ships the government has

leased will also be used as quarantine ships, imo.

[Zodiak]

5. *shiver*

Intersting how the article states clearly that this asset is not being used by the feds, but it could be. More evidence of LIHOP-NO.

And yeah, the name of the ship is errie, especially if it is used a a quarantine for hundreds of people who die from preventable disease.

[MADem]

6. Bataan was running rescue, food and survey ops from TUESDAY

They were using the helos they have aboard, and they were also using LCACs and LCUs to run stuff in from the ship by water.

Then, in an act that can only be described as craven, they were pulled away from NOLA by Chimpy's FEMA putz and sent to MS to support them.

I'm not saying MS did not deserve the help, but you could get there by road, and that was not the case with NOLA.

And there they sit, with a six hundred bed hospital, a watermaking plant that could solve problems for several towns in terms of potable drinking water...all because a fucking nitwit commander in chief does not know how to lead.

I don't blame Bataan--they want to help, and they know how to do Humanitarian Relief Ops. I blame the monkey who has FAILED TO LEAD.

FAILED. TO. LEAD.

FAILED!!!!!!

http://www.bataan.navy.mil/

[karlrschneider]

11. Might have been a defensible time for mutiny...by the Captain.

What was that movie with Hackman who defied orders - to rescue that one guy in ...Bosnia?...?

[MADem]

14. She can only do what she is told

She is clearly frustrated--she is at a point in her command tour where EVERYTHING is clicking--she knows her people, her people know her, and the ship is running like a well-oiled watch. She's gotta be tearing her hair out in frustration at this point, and I will wager her crew is chomping at the fucking bit.

Another FEMA fuckup, but the buck stops with the chimp. Again I say, he FAILED TO LEAD.

[BlueStateGirl]

8. Not so. It has been running recue operations. The reason it took

so long to get operational is that President Nero did not give the order.

This ws part of the Northern Command deployment. But they couldn't go active until Bush gave the order.

[ohio_liberal]

9. They're already seeing dysentery

A shelter with TAINTED drinking water. OMG.

[CountAllVotes]

10. disease has already broke out in Biloxi

and it is incubating as I type in those that have been exposed to the contamination.

That is probably the real reason that they wouldn't let the Red Cross into New Orleans. It is likely one huge toxic pit filled with dead corpses. Those still alive, if any, have a contagious disease incubating inside of them. :( :grr:

:kick:

[karlrschneider]

12. Aren't RC field workers inoculated? Can't imagine they wouldn't be...

??

[MADem]

13. Tetanus shots and cipro for everyone! n/t

[CountAllVotes]

15. inoculated against what exactly?

against what exactly? We don't know what diseases might be a comin from the bayou. The bayou is known for its bizarre contagions. No one will be exempt this time around.

You cannot vaccinate people from diseases that have yet to manifest and be seen. They need lots of fuckin' luck IMO.

Baatan - yet one more coffin ship you'll never see nor hear of again.

:kick:

[KoKo]

16. Tetanus Shots should have been available for all along the coast..They

needed them last week...they need them NOW. I haven't heard anything about medical personnel in the SuperDome or Convention Center...being given any supplies to do this.

[CountAllVotes]

17. too late and a dollar ++++++++ short!!

Baatan = a coffin ship ...

I guess it came down to that or dump em in the Bayou perhaps. How disgusting and how unforgiveable! :grr: