[MilCom] Air Force Hurricane Relief Support

[Joe Cobb]

Are there any going down there?  I saw a couple
C-130's flyout today that looked like they had a load.

Joe

--- stewart00311 <stewart00311 at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Interesting how there was no mention of Air National
> Guard units deploying
> aircraft to the area....
> KBNA for one.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: milcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:milcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Ken
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 7:56 PM
> To: MilCom; MilAirCommsChat at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MilCom] Air Force Hurrican Relief Support
> 
> PRESS RELEASE -- Secretary of the Air Force, Office
> of Public Affairs
> 
> Release No. 060805
> August 31, 2005
> 
> Air Force supports FEMA; helps Hurricane Katrina
> victims
> 
> 
> 
> WASHINGTON - Units and people from across the Air
> Force are supporting
> the Federal Emergency Management Agency and helping
> victims of Hurricane
> Katrina from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
> Helicopters from the 920th Rescue Wing at Patrick
> Air Force Base, Fla.,
> flew to Jackson Miss., Aug. 30 carrying Federal
> Emergency Management
> Agency assessment teams to areas affected by the
> hurricane.
> A C-130J transport aircraft from the 403rd Wing at
> Keesler AFB, Miss.,
> flying out of Asheville, N.C., returned home to the
> base delivering
> supplies to the base hospital.
> The 908th Airlift Wing at Maxwell AFB, Ala., geared
> up two C-130s,
> aircrews and aeromedical evacuation people to help
> move people.
> A C-5 Galaxy from the 60th Air Mobility Wing, Travis
> AFB Calif. and a
> C-17 Globe Master III from the 305th AMW, McGuire
> AFB, NJ transported
> tanker airlift control elements and contingency
> support groups to
> Gulfport and New Orleans International Airports
> respectively. Another
> C-5 from Travis helped search and rescue teams from
> California get to
> the affected area.
> Fifteen HH-60s helicopters and crews from the 347th
> Rescue Wing at Moody
> AFB, Ga., and the 16th Special Operations Wing at
> Hurlburt Field., Fla
> have been positioned near the affected area in
> Jackson, Miss., and crews
> were credited with saving stranded survivors of the
> hurricane.
> Additionally, Critical Care Air Transport teams and
> an obstetrics team
> from Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio,
> Texas, helped patients
> and expectant mothers evacuate Keesler AFB, Miss.,
> on Tuesday. The
> patients and pregnant women were evacuated to
> Wilford Hall. 
> For more information, contact the Secretary of the
> Air Force Public
> Affairs office at (703)-695-0640.
> 
> 
> 
>
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