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This is from one of our members (Brandon..aka wanttoflyhogs). I was interested in his ROTC story and we've been chatting from time to time. His ROTC story is interesting and not as bad as first read would have you believe. His parents live in NO (well, they used to anyway) but got out and are living with him..there's a role reversal for you. He's been busy with CAP so this is only the second time I've heard from him..the first was a quick heads-up that he was alive and kicking. I'm afraid what follows is more of the same things we've heard.


Holy crap it's a mess down there. I've never seen Baton Rouge Metro airport so crammed full of aircraft and people--it's a mix of light civilian planes, Army helos, and CAP planes. Things got even more fubar when Sec. Rumsfeld and President Bush flew in, but that was an awesome thing to see. I also got to see John Travolta's private jet (I think it's like a 737) flying supplies in and out, which was neat.

My squadron commander got some mindblowing shots of New Orleans from the air--stuff like barges the size of a football field that are half a mile from the Mississippi River. The flooding was so great that it picked them up, carried them that far, and then receeded leaving all that there. He said NO smelled like an open sewer from 4,000 feet in a Cessna 172. The annoying thing is that we sent unarmed vans into the city to help pull refugees (i'm sorry, "Displaced persons") out of the city. The people came in the buses from the Superdome and the Convention Center to the rally point with our vans to take them out of town, got off the buses.....and they just disappeared back into the buildings. I mean it, they just headed back into town. Meanwhile our people were sitting there with crackheads waving guns at them going "OK...now what do we do?????" On top of all that, one of the more dense CAP members decided he was going to go investigate the former Wing Commander's house to check and see if it was ok. A noble idea, but he 1) refused a direct order not to leave the van and 2) TOOK OFF HIS BOOTS AND WENT WADING THROUGH THE WATER in his BDU pants and socks. Freaking brilliant.

Anyway, we're back for a little while. I'm waiting to go back in on the ground-that's my specialty.

The stories coming out of NO are something else, this one included.

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Snipers...and targets.</b>
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