Why am I seeing Infantry units rolling into NO?

On cnn just now video of combat infantry troops rolling into the area in humvees in full combat armor and weapons at the ready.

Blitzer talking to a pentagon spokesperson about regular army INFANTRY units going into NO and elsewhere to "provide releif support" and "recover the dead". That is not why you send in combat troops. I've never heard of that happening anywhere before. Combat troops are sometimes sent in to provide security for those providing releif services in dangerous areas but I can't recall an instance of regular army infantry actually going in to provide the support themselves. (but I'm no military historian- feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)

Why didn't Wolf ask the spokesperson why INFATRY soldiers who aren't trained for either of these missions just happen to be the ones sent in?
If the reason is to establish law and order why are combat troops needed to secure an area that has supposedly been almost entirely evacuated (how can there be looting, civil unrest, etc... in an evacuated area?)

I will be grateful for a sensible answer from anyone here.

:shrug:

Other than cambat infantry units that could be used for this type of mission. Infantrymen are trained for one thing. Coscom, the support and logistics division out of Fort Bragg is still in country and would be much better suited to this mission. My question was why INFANTRY?

54,000 troops are being sent in.

The people who stayed with their pets , and to protect their property and somehow survived, probably still think that power will be restored, and they don't yet know they HAVE to leave.. they will not willingly just go..

they will be removed forcibly and unphotographed..

The military is now in control. (Not the NG either) We've all been begging for a response and Martial law is what it looks like we've gotten. Have we been HOODWINKED yet again?

the only answer they've got but the only one they can think of.

dubby looked stupid and now is over-compensating. Big proud peacock that he is was boasting about all the help he is sending in. He doesn't realize that he missed the main mission.

allows the regular military to perform policing functions.

Any other ex-military (or current) DUers care to bake me up on this. I know of the posse comitatis suspension. I am questioning the introduction of INFANTRY units not the military deployment itself. There are MANY different type of units that would be available and much better suited to this task than COMBAT infantry. Combat Engineer units for instance, (that one is a NO BRAINER) logistical support units whose job is to go into chaotic areas and set up distribution of food, supplies and fuel for other units etc... Am I getting thru here? I mean am I properly defining the distinction between sending in Military assets suited to provideing disaster relief and sending in INFANTRY units whose sole mission is combat?

population on its own

even with the enforced poverty, FEMA failures during evacuation, bushgang LIHOP, and the bushgang MIHOP initial response, too many of the natives of that prime real estate are still alive.

:cry: