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Bush Praises Cooperation in Hurricane Response
September 2, 2008
President George W. Bush personally thanks Airman of the Texas Air National Guard 149th Fighter Wing and the 59th Medical Wing for their volunteer efforts in processing over 700 evacuees displaced due to Hurricane Gustav Sept.1 at Port San Antonio, Texas.
Mississippi BCT conducts 'knock' mission along state's coast
September 2, 2008
Specialist Robert Wilson, of Pontotoc Miss., leaves a flyer on a FEMA travel trailer in Gulfport during notification operations in preparation for the landfall of Hurricane Gustav. Wilson is a member of the Pontotoc-based A Troop, 1st Battalion, 98th Cavalry Regiment, Mississippi Army National Guard. More than 2,500 members of the Mississippi National Guard are on state active duty, assisting civil authorities in preparing the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Mississippi Guard unit helps with Hurricane Gustav preparations
September 2, 2008
Army National Guard Sgt Thomas Brown, right, and Staff Sgt Cory Brown, notify mobile home resident Charlotte Wright about a mandatory evacuation order in Gulfport, Miss. Aug. 31. All Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer residents in Gulfport are under a mandatory evacuation order in anticipation of Hurricane Gustav making landfall. Both guardsmen are from A Troop, 1-98 Cavalry Regiment, Pontotoc, Miss.
National Guard Emergency Operations Ready
September 2, 2008
Lt. Col. Philip Parker of Summit, Miss., and Lt. Col. Charles Rhoads of Byram, Miss., monitor information for the Rear Emergency Operations Center, which kept track of the various missions conducted by the Mississippi National Guard on the Gulf Coast prior to landfall of Hurricane Gustav on Sept. 1.
Guard Aids New Orleans Evacuation, Braces for Storm Mission
September 2, 2008
Members of the Louisiana Air National Guard medical team assist a special-needs resident at the Union Passenger Terminal Station in New Orleans on Aug. 30, 2008, as she prepares to be evacuated prior to the arrival of Hurricane Gustav.
Chertoff: Guard vital to hurricane relief efforts
September 2, 2008
Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal, in red shirt, and Maj. Gen. Bennett C. Landreneau, the adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard, talk to crew members from the 118th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron of Nashville, Tenn. He thanked the crew for its rapid response and support to Hurricane Gustav. The crew operated from the New Orleans Lakefront Airport beginning on Aug. 31.
20th Special Forces Group rescues stranded residents
September 2, 2008
Members of the 20th Special Forces Group of the Mississippi Army National Guard launched rubber boats fitted with outboard motors to rescue residents of the flooded Jordan River Shores subdivision in Kiln, Miss., on Sept. 1. Six teams from the Jackson, Miss., based unit searched for anyone who remained in the subdivision, which flooded as a result of a tidal surge from Hurricane Gustav.
Air Guard members airlift, assist thousands of Gustav displaced
September 2, 2008
Litter patients are carried from a Texas Air National Guard C-130 Hercules Aug. 31 to awaiting ambulances at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio following their aeromedical flight from Beaumont, Texas. In the potential path of Hurricane Gustav's landfall, a multi-state aeromedical Air Guard team from Texas, Delaware, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Tennessee helped airlift at least 247 patients to safety Aug. 30-31.
Hurricane Gustav Slams Into Louisiana
September 1, 2008
National Guard better equipped for hurricanes this year
September 1, 2008
Air Force Maj. Gen. Bill Etter, director of domestic operations for the National Guard Bureau, briefs members of the media on the National Guard preparations for Tropical Storm Gustav, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, at the Federal Emergency Managment Agency in Washington, D.C. In preparation for Gustav, the National Guard has more than 5,000 Soldiers and Airmen on standby and has pre-positions units in areas most likely to be affected by the storm.