[KyARES] RE: [KYHAM] National Disaster Response Plan Needed?

[Fred Flowers]

There is a Federal law on the books that stops that.  The States have to ask 
the Fed to send the military. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete" <pwkw at insightbb.com>
To: <kyham at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 5:42 PM
Subject: RE: [KyARES] RE: [KYHAM] National Disaster Response Plan Needed?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: kyham-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:kyham-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of N4AOF
>
>>One shortcoming of the NRP (and the FRP before it) is that the plan
>>deliniates who is responsible and lays out a detailed process for the 
>>local
>
>>government to ask their state for help, for the state to ask the federal
>>government for help, and for the federal agencies to coordinate with each
>>other about who is supposed to help.  But nowhere in the NRP (or the FRP)
>>is there one single word about actually DOING anything.
>
>>The difference between the military concept of a plan and the FEMA concept
>>of a plan is that when the military makes out a plan, they write down what
>>they need to DO, along with who does it, when, and how.
>
> This is a conclusion I came to after having been deployed to Tallahassee 
> on
> the Red Cross ECRV for Dennis. The ARC has a lot of material and support
> equipment that is useful in delivering immediate relief and long-term aid,
> but they rely on Fed Ex or their own ERVs to ship a lot of it. 
> Consequently,
> the logistics can (and were) a nightmare. I personally loaded a Budget
> rental truck in Birmingham Al. with support equipment that had been 
> shipped
> by Fed Ex. That truck then went on to Tallahassee. Two others went to
> Montgomery Al., and Jackson, Ms. Toward the end of the Dennis response, I
> personally saw about 20 24' trucks that had been rented by the ARC to move
> support equipment around. On the other hand, the military (principally the
> Army and National Guard) has a lot of logistical capability, deployable
> personnel and stand-alone communication ability to move things quickly.
> Putting the two together would mean that supplies would go where they are
> needed quickly, and a large number of logistical personnel could be
> mobilized in just hours. That's what the military is good at doing.
>
> I think in our zeal to protect ourselves, we have focused our military
> efforts too much on the outside, and ignored the possibility that the same
> kind of effort might be needed within our borders. I see our present
> situation as like a raw egg: we have a relatively hard shell, but a very
> soft and vulnerable interior. By involving military assistance for natural
> or man-made disasters, we can hard boil the interior, and make the whole
> more durable against exterior and interior insults.
>
> Pete
> KF4VCC
>
>
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