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Army Times: Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans
September 02, 2005
NEW ORLEANS — Combat operations are underway on the streets “to take this city back” in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
“This place is going to look like Little Somalia,” Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. “We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.”
“We’re here to do whatever they need us to do,” Sgt. 1st Class Ron Dixon, of the Oklahoma National Guard’s 1345th Transportation Company. “We packed to stay as long as it takes.”
While some fight the insurgency in the city, other carry on with rescue and evacuation operations. Helicopters are still pulling hundreds of stranded people from rooftops of flooded homes.
Originally posted by ThichHeaded
I hope must of us Americans get off our fat lazy asses and do what is right.. .
Originally posted by SpittinCobra
Originally posted by ThichHeaded
I hope must of us Americans get off our fat lazy asses and do what is right.. .
What is the right thing to do?
Originally posted by LDragonFire
Just as John Titor predicted
peace
Originally posted by marg6043
First of all I have not seen any of the troops in NO been acused of killing anybody "Yet"
Originally posted by Hellmutt
Latest from Scotsman:
Scotsman: Bush panics and sends in the marines
Leave it to the Brits and Reuters to blow things out of proportion as usual, that is the kind of media that is not needed during times like those. I take both those articles as tabloid news looking to sell papers by the headlines they use and that we do not need. extra DIV
Originally posted by shots
I take both those articles as tabloid news
In one, a young man was run down and then shot by a New Orleans police officer, in another a man seeking help was gunned down by a National Guard soldier, witnesses said.