Northcom Update
125,000 Meals Ready to Eat (MREs) arrived and are being distributed to people at the Superdome in New Orleans. Another 25,000 MREs and three trucks carrying drinking water are scheduled to arrive today.
U.S. Transportation Command is scheduled to begin flying people from New Orleans to Lackland AFB, Texas, on C-17s today.
Six hundred 25,000-pound sand bags were delivered Sept. 1 to the U.S. Gulf Coast area and are currently being used to repair broken levees. Another 200 bags are expected today.
The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued more than 3,000 people to date.
The hospital ship USNS Mercy is scheduled to sail from San Diego, Calif., Sept. 7. Scheduled arrival to the U.S. Gulf Coast is Sept. 21.
Overall, 9.3 million MREs have been allocated. May not be millions of tons, but is sure is a few thousand.
I don't know when the aircraft carrier "Truman" is scheduled to arrive.
