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RE: Its a good news story... - 10/3/2017 10:27:12 PM

MercTech

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Going forward, what would really make things work better is to quit considering FEMA a political plum appointment and put some professionals in charge. I.E. but FEMA under the Public Health Service with a permanent liaison with the Corps of Engineers.
Legislate an amendment to the regs preventing active duty military from being deployed on U.S. soil so Tiger Teams for disaster relief can be manned from active duty as well as National Guard. And have the disaster relief engineering teams run exercises with National Guard so the roles can be shaken out and ready to roll.

Yes, the military has teams that can get a bombed out runway operational in hours. But, the guys who practice that shit are not legal to deploy for civilian purposes inside the U.S. Engineers and Logistics need a waiver for Posse Comitatus in a declared disaster. As it is, we have a political appointee run FEMA and National Guard who aren't all construction battalions.

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/personnel/seabees/seabee1.html

https://www.nationalguard.com/careers/engineer

http://www.usace.army.mil/

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RE: Its a good news story... - 10/4/2017 9:38:18 AM

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FEMA is operated under the Department of Homeland Security and has been since 2001.

Strangely enough, the FEMA response to Hurricane Andrew was praised, in fact every time it acted prior to moving it to DHS, it seemed to have a very good record.

As part of DHS, the FEMA budget is subject to the whims of the director of Homeland Security and the agency is geared more to a major terrorist attack than natural disaster in my opinion.

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RE: Its a good news story... - 10/4/2017 5:37:38 PM

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Interesting, down in Homestead FEMA was almost universally derided after Andrew. Years later, there were still people stuck in FEMA ghetto trailers. I remember that bit and remember being warned on reporting to the Nuclear plant there to stay away from the FEMA trailers it wasn't safe. The last time I worked Turkey Point was 1998.

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