15 January 2020 (11:55 UTC-07 Tango 06) 25 Dey 1398/19 Jumada l-Ula 1441/21 Yi-Chou 4717
The state of New York activated it’s National Guard, not in response to natural disasters in The Empire State, but to response to the recent earthquakes in Puerto Rico.
New York’s 105th Airlift Wing preps pallets of equipment for flight to Puerto Rico, 13JAN2020.
There are a lot of political reasons for this, like the fact that most Puerto Ricans escaping their natural disaster ravaged island end up in New York (more than one million so far). Another reason is that apparently New York’s governor sees an opportunity to advance his political career (President of the U.S.?). Governor Andrew Cuomo is in Pureto Rico right now, his seventh public relations trip since Hurricane Maria in 2017, you’d think he was the governor of Puerto Rico!
Cuomo ordered 115 of New York’s National Guard personnel to deploy to Puerto Rico for three months, despite that fact that New York’s National Guard is also deploying to the Middle East!
Cuomo, April 2018, one of his many taxpayer funded trips to a place he supposedly doesn’t govern.
It should be noted that at the end of 2018, Syracuse.com reported that for some reason Cuomo’s own staff have no idea how much New York state taxpayers are being forced to spend helping Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria!
12JAN2020, New York’s 105th Airlift Wing personnel hitch a large generator to a dump-truck, to be flown to Puerto Rico.
According to Stars and Stripes, Puerto Rico has 650 of its own National Guard personnel working full time building tent cities for now homeless Puerto Ricans. As of 13JAN2020, they’ve distributed more than 72-thousand bottles of water and 30-thousand meals.
It should be a sign of failed state-ism when the governor of a state can spend his constituent’s state tax-dollars helping an area of the country that the national government should be dealing with.
Failed State: A state/country whose political/economic system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control.
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U.S. personnel at Osan Air Base practiced emergency responder training, 19DEC2019.
U.S. taxes spent on a Humanitarian Assistance Response Training (HART) Course at the U.S. Navy’s Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific Headquarters in Singapore. Also in attendance were the Canadians and Singaporeans.
Military housing personnel making hasty repairs, 07JUL2019.
Repairing base water lines damaged by the quakes, 06JUL2019.
Checking the wires over the Huey and Cobra helicopter ‘gate guards’, 07JUL2019.
Some buildings show signs of major cracks, but it looks like the commissary got shaken-up the most.
12MAY2019, U.S. Army personnel help conduct a survey of locals during operation Beyond the Horizon, a yearly exercise ostensibly to build capacity for response to major disasters.
Apparently taxpayer funded live music is part of preparing for natural disasters, as demonstrated by this multi-national military band taking part in this year’s Pacific Partnership multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness operation.
U.S. and British empire Australian navy officers inspect a taxpayer funded construction site in Tuy Hoa, 06MAY2019, as part of the expensive Pacific Partnership multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness operation conducted in the Indo-Pacific every year.
Whatcha gonna eat after the disaster? U.S. Army and Navy personnel inspect a poultry operation in Vietnam, 09MAY2019.
Malaysian first responders and British empire Royal Air Force Reserves personnel take part in a disaster response exercise during the U.S. led Pacific Partnership 2019.
U.S. military personnel help rebuild a school as part of Pacific Partnership 2019, in an effort to enhance regional ‘interoperability’ and disaster response capabilities.
U.S. Navy personnel practice mass-casualty disaster response on a Timorese, 26APR2019.
The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency is encouraging residents to stay vigilant as part of Tsunami Awareness Month. April was chosen as the month to honor and remember the hundreds of lives lost during the worst tsunami event in Hawai’i’s recent history. The 1946 April Fool’s Day tsunami was caused by an 8.6 earthquake near Alaska: “Earthquake-generated tsunamis can reach Hawaii within just a few hours at speeds of nearly 500 miles per hour!”-Jeff Daniels, former Honolulu District Emergency Management Chief
Somewhere in the East China Sea, U.S. Navy and Marines personnel conducted Nightingale, a mass casualty exercise aboard USS Wasp (LHD 1), 04FEB2019.
U.S. Marines and Sailors trained with Japanese forces on Okinawa, for Humanitarian Assistance-Disaster Relief, 01FEB2019.
At ‘Sector San Diego’ U.S. Coast Guard cutter Haddock conducted mass casualty training, 06FEB2019.
U.S. personnel board a Japanese Air Force C-130H at Andersen Air Force Base, in preparation to resume the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief portion of COPE North, 25FEB2019.