Small gripe. The staff types showed up and flexed the rule book during a disaster....

 I was bitching about the response to the Asheville disaster (regional disaster) happening as we speak.

We're seeing the usual from local officials (the lust of power and the ability to fuck with people remains long after covid went away...covid = common cold by the way), and just like Katrina we're seeing the same state emergency officials frozen in a state of inaction due to idiotic analysis instead of LEANING into the problem.

That's my gripe.

The staff types (never knew I had so many on these pages...thought it was just knuckle draggers) told me how its supposed to be done.  What the law requires yada yada yada.

I get that.

The law is the law.

But its supposed to be backed up by common sense, compassion and a bias to find ways to help your fellow man, not quote the rules when they're YOUR fellow countrymen trying to survive a natural disaster.

What I can't figure is if this is just politics at play (defending the Biden Admin and helping Kamala) OR an actual slowness to act because they live in an environment of pushing papers.

The US Army has sent 1000 Airborne Troops.  Freaking awesome.  BUT WE HAVE A COMBATANT COMMANDER FOR NORTH AMERICA!!!!

That fuck can draw troops just like everyone else.

When we saw the first reports of this thing everyone was monitoring it.  I'm sure they were doing the same at least in the intel shops at Bragg and Lejeune.  They should have been doing the same at Ft Dix, Ft Campbell AND at Ft Benning (I think that covers most of the big bases in the region although Dix is outside the zone but still belongs to the 18th Airborne Corps...I think).

If I was the Commanding General of those forces I would have my shops draw up contingency plans to assist.  I would have sent a message up to Northern Command letting them know what Engineer, Military Police, Infantry...FUCK EVEN MOTOR T available to assist.

Long story short?

Even if the locals said kiss my ass we got it, it would have been one helluva snap exercise to test unit readiness.

But they did need the help and 1k Airborne ain't shit considering the massiveness of the disaster.

Another point of order.

I'm really sick and tired of having the most powerful, highest priced and technologically advanced military able to get shit done for ass wipes on the other side of the planet but when shit kicks off here they sit on their hands and when I bitch about it some staff types show up to tell me how wrong and ignorant I am (can't argue the last).

So yeah.  We SHOULD follow the law but we should be biased to ACT when it comes to helping our fellow citizens.

Sidenote.

It irks the hell out of me that I don't see any Marines involved in this effort.  For Christ's sake send the wing with some Hueys and 53s to help. I know our engineers are shit shape with Force Design 2030 but we SHOULD be apart of this effort.