Interviewed here.

JB: Now, how many people are actually leaving these days from New Orleans? Are people cooperating with your guys? Are they meeting resistance? Are they being told go on, get away, we don't want you?

WC: I'll tell you. The people have been great. When we came in here last Saturday, we got an alert last Saturday morning about ten o'clock. And by four pm in the afternoon, we had taken off and headed down to New Orleans, and have been working since. And out of the New Orleans area, we've evacuated right at about 4,000 people now, since Saturday evening when we started the evacuation process, or picked it up and took over at that point. And we've rescued about another 500 of them.

JB: Wow. And let me stop you right there, sir. And please...let's just go back and wind that clock for me just a little bit. When did you guys get the go order? And how fast did you get ther?

WC: We got the go order at 10:05 on Saturday morning, and by 4:00 in the afternoon, six hours later, I was getting on the first airplane with our lead command and control elements, and we took off fifteen minutes later.

JB: General, I know you guys are pretty fast movers, but that's got to be some kind of record, even for you guys.

WC: Well, you know, the day before, we did a complete rehearsal within the division, in anticipation that we might really be called at some point. So we had literally worked up our own internal division scenario, and alerted the entire division, and ran through a drill for deployment, so the next day when it came, it was...we do it routinely in 18 hours. But to do it in six hours takes a little more work. But we had just practiced it just the day before.

JB: Six hours. General, I'm an old Air Force puke, and we take an awful lot of pride in getting things going real fast, and getting to places real fast. I don't think anybody can keep up with you guys.