NG water purification unit goes home unused (add to unused resources file)

[expatriot]

You'd think these would have been able to be used somewhere.


Guard water purification unit told to head home

FARGO, N.D. - Twenty-eight members of a North Dakota National Guard water purification unit had expected to be helping victims of Hurricane Katrina for up to two months. Now they are preparing to return home along with tons of equipment that never was used.

The members of the 136th Quartermaster Battalion left for the Gulf Coast on Sept. 5, to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. They were stationed at the Camp Shelby Training Center in Mississippi, but spent much of the time waiting for an assignment before receiving orders to return home.

[klook]

1. OK, so we're paying Blackwater and Halliburton big bucks,

and not using the National Guard--who cost less, are already paid for, and will likely do a better job. :eyes: What's not going right?

[whatever4]

2. The wasted resources are everywhere

From my area, they filled a hanger, and now don't even know what to do with the stuff http://www.kmov.com/localnews/stories/kmov_localnews_050914_homelessshelter.59db5ae8.html

City balks at using evacuee shelter for local area homeless

05:18 PM CDT on Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Ray Preston, News 4

(KMOV) -- The Reverend Larry Rice says since hurricane victims won't be using the hangar at Lambert or the Gumbo facility in Chesterfield, the homeless should be allowed to use them.


Thousands of empty cots will stay empty after FEMA announces no Katrina evacuees will be brought to the shelter at a Lambert Airport hangar after all.

[autorank]

3. I heard about this. These folks are supposed to be oiutstanding.

Of course, so is the Fairfax County (VA))world reknowned "Urban Rescue" team which showed up and was sent to rural MS, never to enter NOLA.

Clean water, that would have been great and these SD folks came a long way thinking help was the object.

Watch out for Big Eddie Shultz on this one. These were people he talked about as they were headed down there. SD is particularly motivated to help because of the floods in Rapid City several years ago and the help they received.

Great post.

[OneBlueSky]

4. FEMA actions are fast moving beyond negilgent to criminal . . .

there are scores of stories about aid refused and recovery help turned back, to the point that it's getting ridiculous . . . who the hell's running this show anyhow? . . .