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2010-03-18 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Fred 2010-03-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 This is the wrong place to start making budget cuts.

Posted by newc 2010-03-18 00:31|| 2010-03-18 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Due to all the rush to Blame Bush for Katrina and the response, the Coast Guard never got the credit they were due for what they accomplished. They were there before any one even knew there were problems.

The dramatic rescues we saw? The media was quick to show, but never gave credit to the Guardsmen that put their own lives in peril those first 72 hours.
The U.S. Coast Guard & Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike the United States. The U.S. Coast Guard played a key role in the planning, response, and recovery efforts in three mission areas: search and rescue, marine pollution response, and the management of maritime commerce. Of the estimated 60,000 people that needed to be rescued from rooftops and flooded homes, Coast Guardsmen saved more than 33,500, including rescuing from peril 24,135 lives and evacuating 9,409 medical patients to safety. The rescue and the response efforts were some of the largest in Coast Guard history, involving units from every district as well as a total of 5,600 Coast Guardsmen.

With a cut of 1,100 folks, how many more lives would have been lost without the numbers of folks available to pull people from those roofs?

And he is taking that force away....

Posted by Sherry 2010-03-18 00:46|| 2010-03-18 00:46|| Front Page Top

#3 ION WORLD NEWS > OBAMA: IRAN NUKES MAY TRIGGER MIDEAST ARMS RACE.

* SAME > NEW VIDEO SHOWS RADICAL ISLAMIC NETWORK IN NEW ENGLAND.

Iff MAIN STREET/ANYTOWN, USA thought it + CONUS was immune from [budding] MIDLE EAST, ETC. STYLE [budding Violent]Domestic Terror, or that LOGIC TWAS RATIONAL, dey'se were wrong.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-03-18 01:01|| 2010-03-18 01:01|| Front Page Top

#4 OTOH SAME > [Guardian.UK] TO RE-SHAPE THE WORLD THE US MUST FIRST LEARN TO RE-SHAPE ITSELF.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-03-18 01:03|| 2010-03-18 01:03|| Front Page Top

#5 What Sherry said!!!!!

But the Coast Guard is a liability if your goal is to allow illegal aliens and drugs to enter the country.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-03-18 08:51|| 2010-03-18 08:51|| Front Page Top

#6 One of the unmentioned but critical Coast Guard missions is to stop foreign cargo ships about 300 miles off the coast, to make sure they aren't carrying any missiles with nuclear weapons.

Since the Democrats have eliminated the airborne laser, and tried to neuter US coastal anti-missile defenses, maybe they should follow up by giving Hutchinson Whampoa its own docks at Bremerton and San Diego.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-03-18 10:16|| 2010-03-18 10:16|| Front Page Top

#7 This is the wrong place to start making budget cuts.

It's his nature. When it comes to being practical, the guy couldn't find his @$$ with both hands. He just doesn't get it, and he's too conceited to hire someone who knows more than he does about anything.

Watch for him to start giving out "Field Guidance" soon.

Posted by gorb 2010-03-18 10:56|| 2010-03-18 10:56|| Front Page Top

#8 The Coast Guard has had more and more missions dumped on it over the years, with less and less funding for the mandate.

It is not incompetence on the part of the Administration, but rather ideology that keeps denying our military and the Coast Guard their resources to support the mission. People just cannot believe that the Executive would do this, but the evidence shows that it is exactly what they are doing.

Bottom line, we are being set up for more attacks, and the American people will pay with their lives. Voting for these kinds of people in the Executive and the Legislative branches can cost you your life.

Posted by Alaska Paul in Hooper Bay, Alaska 2010-03-18 11:39|| 2010-03-18 11:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Baja smugglers' use of boats rising rapidly

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-03-18 14:05|| 2010-03-18 14:05|| Front Page Top

#10 we are being set up for more attacks, and the American people will pay with their lives. Voting for these kinds of people in the Executive and the Legislative branches can cost you your life. The USA will have to lose many more of its citizens before a substantial majority of the electorate wakes up and stays up. When they do, it may be too late.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-03-18 15:25|| 2010-03-18 15:25|| Front Page Top

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