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International, U.S.

Harvey: Singapore joins Texas Militia!

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“This was a small gesture to express our appreciation and gratitude to the U.S., and in particular the State of Texas, which have been good hosts for our Peace Prairie Detachment.”-Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore’s Prime Minister

Singapore Air Force CH-47 Chinook in Texas

Since 1996 Singapore has based a small unit at the Grand Prairie Army Aviation Support Facility in Dallas.  They’ve helped out the Texas National Guard with other natural disasters like Hurricane Floyd in 1999, fire and flood operations in Texas in 2000, and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

HARVEY: ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE JOINS RESCUE OPS!

U.S.

Harvey Food Crisis: Massive food delivery ops for Texas underway!

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Video, U.S. Army Fort Hood personnel join Meals on Wheels to deliver food supplies to Houston:

Video, Texas National & State Guard units distributing food supplies in Victoria:

Video, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph Auxiliary Airfield CH-47 Chinook loaded with pallets of Meal Ready Eat (MRE):

Official USN video of food deliveries via sea:

Video U.S. Coast Guard food delivery ops, Corpus Christi:

HARVEY: CONFEDERATE AIR FORCE DELIVERS AID WITH WORLD WAR 2 AIRCRAFT

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, AUGUST 2017: HARVEY KILLS TEXAS CROPS?

Technology, U.S.

Irma: Puerto Rico targeted, Florida & Texas preps!

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USAF radio announcement of National Guard deployments:

The U.S. Navy began evacuating 5-thousand people from Naval Air Station (NAS) Key West in Florida.

Video Coast Guard boat preps in Puerto Rico:

U.S. Coast Guard prepping a boat in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 05 SEP 2017

Irma is now a record category 5 hurricane and another storm called Jose is forming right behind Irma.

Illinois National Guard C-130 crew prepping for deployment to Puerto Rico, 02 SEP 2017

The U.S. Army’s 63rd Expeditionary Signal Battalion, based out of Fort Stewart, Georgia, are in Texas right now as part of Army North’s hurricane command center.  They are currently prepping Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone systems in anticipation of Hurricane Irma.

HARVEY: U.S. ARMY NORTH IN COMMAND

HARVEY: PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA SAVING YOUR CELL PHONES?

U.S.

Harvey: C-A-F delivers aid with World War 2 aircraft

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t was once called the Confederate Air Force (formerly Confederate Air Corps), but for politically correct reasons the name was changed to Commemorative Air Force (CAF) in 2002.

U.S. Army Reserve photo by Captain Loyal Auterson, 02SEP2017.

CAF’s mission is normally to restore old combat planes, but on 02SEP2017 they used one of their restored birds to deliver food aid to victims of Hurricane Harvey.

U.S. Army Reserve photo by Captain Loyal Auterson, 02SEP2017.

The U.S. Army Reserve’s Echo Company, 7th Battalion (General Support Aviation Battalion) 158th Aviation Regiment joined with the Commemorative Air Force in loading up an old C-47 cargo plane to bring supplies to people in the Orange area of Texas.

https://www.facebook.com/CommemorativeAF/videos/10155594289787510/?t=36

U.S. Army Reserve photo by Captain Loyal Auterson, 02SEP2017.

‘Bluebonnet Belle’ delivered 3-thousand-8-hundred pounds of supplies to the residents in the area of Orange, Texas.

U.S. Army Reserve photo by Captain Loyal Auterson, 02SEP2017.

The CAF C-47 is operated by the Highland Lakes chapter, based in Burnet, Texas.

Update:  On 21JUL2018, the ‘Bluebonnet Belle’ crashed and burned while taking off from its home port of Burnet, Texas. News reports said nobody was hurt.

Fox7 Austin: Survivor of Bluebonnet Belle crash files suit against plane operator

HARVEY: TEXAS MILITIA RESCUES NEW MASCOT, NAMED HARVEY!

HARVEY: WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS?

HARVEY: ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE JOINS RESCUE OPS!

HARVEY: BEAUMONT CATASTROPHE

HARVEY: KENTUCKY MILITIA RESCUE OPS!

U.S.

Harvey: What happens to your pets?

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Texas Army National Guard rescue flood victim’s dog in Orange, Texas. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Carl Greenwell, 04SEP2017.

U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Safety Security Team San Francisco rescues a puppy in the Port Arthur area of Texas. USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Valerie Higdon, 01SEP2017.

USCG Sector Lower Mississippi River joins with Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Brandon, 02SEP2017.

Video, Darlene Chandler of Harris County Precinct One Constable’s Office praises U.S. Coast Guard’s efforts to save pets and livestock:

Livestock trapped on a sliver of dry land, U.S. Army photo by Specialist Dustin D. Biven, 03SEP2017.

Video, Alabama National Guard drops hay to stranded Texas livestock:

U.S. Customs & Border Patrol rescued pets in Rockport, Texas. USCBP photo by Glenn Fawcett, 27AUG2017.

USCG sailor with Maritime Safety Security Team Seattle rescues a dog in the Beaumont area of Texas. USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Valerie Higdon, 01SEP2017.

Cypress Creek, Texas. Texas Army National Guard photo by Captain Martha Nigrelle, 28AUG2017.

WORLD ANIMAL DAY: EVER WONDER WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS DURING WAR? IT AIN’T PRETTY!

International, U.S.

Harvey: Royal Canadian Air Force joins rescue ops!

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RCAF CC-130J Hercules at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Kelly Field, Texas, 03SEP2017

The British empire’s (Commonwealth of Nations, aka The Commonwealth) Royal Canadian Air Force (also a member of NATO) delivered supplies to Texas.   Official USAF video report:

SHHH, DON’T “CROSSTELL”, BUT U.S. AIR MILITIA UNITS & CANADA PREPPING FOR TFR EMERGENCY!

MARYLAND MILITIA SPENDS MEMORIAL WEEKEND RESCUING PILOTS IN CANADA!

U.S.

Harvey: Beaumont catastrophe

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“…it’s horrific. I have lived here my whole life. I have been a cop for my whole adult life and I have never seen anything like this.”-James Singletary, Beaumont police chief, PBS Newshour interview 04SEP2017

Video Beaumont rail yard flyover, 02 SEP 2017:

“There were at least 150 adults and 1-hundred kids, along with 15 animals. That was the first day. The other vehicles were only able to carry three people at a time, and ours could transport twenty-five to thirty people at a time.”-Sergeant Ronald Allen, U.S. Army reserve

Texas Army & Air National Guard set up a field hospital in the parking lot of Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas Beaumont, due to the hospital being damaged by Harvey

By 02 SEP 2017 U.S. Army Reserve personnel assisted in more than 7-hundred evacuations of people, 170 pets, and transported more than 1-hundred emergency personnel to critical locations.

Texas Militia personnel hand out MRE (Meal Ready Eat) to flood victims in Beaumont, 03SEP2017

As of 04 SEP 2017 at least 3-thousand flooded Beaumont homes are still inaccessible.  Video of Texas National Guard searching Beaumont’s flooded neighborhoods, 03 SEP 2017:

U.S. Army and Navy personnel load-up a MH-60S SeaHawk with drinking water for Beaumont, 03SEP2017

Due to the unprecedented flooding, and the failure of Beaumont’s fresh water pumps, there is no drinkable water.  Video of Army Reserve CH-47 Chinook loaded with volunteers delivering 49 U.S. tons of fresh water (supposedly donated by an “anonymous billionaire”) to Beaumont, 02 SEP 2017:

U.S. Coast Guard C-130 Hercules, from North Carolina, delivering drinking water for Beaumont, 03SEP2017

“We got the call to come over to east Texas, into Beaumont, Lumberton and Port Arthur areas. So we’ve been doing humanitarian missions, going out with the swift water rescue survival team and finding areas that traditional military vehicles cannot get in and out of. The amphibious assault vehicles help us get to those areas.”-Gunnery Sergeant Alan Daigle, USMC Reserve

Marines rescued almost 1-thousand-3-hundred people and countless pets/livestock from the affected areas.

U.S. marines confer with mayor of Rosehill Acres, a town just north of Beaumont

Video of USMC Reserve operation to deliver supplies to Red Cross warehouse in Beaumont:

BlackHawk flies over Beaumont, Texas, 03SEP2017