20 August 2016 (12:34 UTC-07 Tango 01) 30 Mordad 1395/16 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/18 Bing-Shen 4714
“It brings me back to when Hurricane Katrina passed in 2005, and I saw the National Guard around all the neighborhoods. That’s what persuaded me to join.”-Sergeant Bryan Campo
Since 12 August, more than 3-thousand 8-hundred Louisiana Army and Air National Guard personnel have been mobilized to help deal with the unexpected and unprecedented flooding that’s ongoing (due to rain upriver, along the Mississippi).
From 12 August to 19 August, the state militia rescued more than 19-thousand residents and more than 2-thousand 6-hundred pets. More than 78-thousand 9-hundred MRE’s (Meals Ready to Eat), 465 tarps, more than 439-thousand bottles of water, 961,500 sandbags, more than 2-thousand 2-hundred cots and 1-thousand 7-hundred blankets were distributed! National Guard Military Police are also providing security at some shelters.
Don’t think it’s a ‘9-to-5’ job, militia personnel are pulling 12 hour-shifts!
LOUISIANA MILITIA RESCUES FLOOD VICTIMS & THEIR PETS!