US Navy sends in carriers to help NY, NJ after Sandy Barack Obama to visit flood-ravaged areas of th

[kpete]

Source: MSNBC

The U.S. Navy is sending three helicopter carrier ships to the coast off New York and New Jersey to help rescue and recovery operations in the wake of superstorm Sandy, officials told NBC News.
Navy officials said USS Wasp, USS Carter Hall, and USS Mesa Verde had been ordered to head to the area to provide landing platforms for Coast Guard, National Guard and civilian agency helicopters if needed.

The Atlantic Fleet command made the decision in the name of "prudent planning," officials said.

The USS Mesa Verde, seen in 2009, has been ordered to go to waters off the New York and New Jersey coasts.

With six days to go before the Nov. 6 elections, President Barack Obama will visit flood-ravaged areas of the New Jersey shore, where the storm made landfall on Monday.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49619068/ns/weather/#.UJFTu2_A9iB

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[gademocrat7]

2. K&R

[lunatica]

3. Wow!

I'm fucking impressed! President Obama wasn't kidding when he said the only thing to do is come up with ways this can be done. He just ordered three Navy ships to the rescue.

Wow.

[glacierbay]

5. If it had been a Pres. Romney Admin.

he would have sent horses and bayonets.

[lunatica]

6. LOL!

Good one!

[msanthrope]

8. Damn!!! Beat me to it! nt

[cosmicone]

11. and women in binders! n/t

[olddad56]

19. our attempted to outsource the recovery operation to China

[RobinA]

26. I Was Thinking

maybe the horses and bayonets would be ON the carriers. Horses can swim, can't they?

[glacierbay]

28. LOL

good one and yes, horses can swim, at least mine can.

[awoke_in_2003]

39. For some reason...

"Missouri boat ride" (outlaw Josie wales) just popped into my head.

[mac56]

4. What?! No submarines?!

[LeftInTX]

43. What no battleships?

[SoapBox]

7. Oh ya...and the Pukes

are going to be puking over the expense.

How dare he help Americans!

[kestrel91316]

9. The repukes don't consider urban East coasters to be Americans.

Too many of them are brown or yellow or Jewish.

[mac56]

10. Sarah Palin decided where the real America is.

“We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. … We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America…”

[glacierbay]

13. All I can say is that

Sarah Palin is a has been idiot who needs to stay in AK. and STFU.
On second thought, let her keep yapping, every time she opens her pie hole, it re-inforces my reason for being a Democrat.

[avaistheone1]

23. Funny! If Palin is so fond of small towns how come she spends so much of her time in

big cities? Who would she be without all the media attention and limelight?

[LeftInTX]

44. Or too liberal (aka commies, unAmerican, Joe McArthy)

[CTyankee]

35. Yep, it's "immoral." Think of the CHILDREN!

[AsahinaKimi]

12. Excellent!

GO NAVY!

USS WASP


USS Carter Hall


USS Mesa Verde

[glacierbay]

14. I honestly thought that the had retired the Wasp. nt.

[AsahinaKimi]

15. Don't know...

I have only ever visited an Air Craft Carrier and from what I have heard, its been retired to moth balls for a few years now.

[malokvale77]

18. Wasp-class LHDs

Amphibious warships are designed to support the Marine Corps tenets of Operational Maneuver From the Sea (OMFTS) and Ship to Objective Maneuver (STOM). They must be able to sail in harm’s way and provide a rapid buildup of combat power ashore in the face of opposition. Because of their inherent capabilities, these ships have been and will continue to be called upon to also support humanitarian and other contingency missions on short notice. The United States maintains the largest and most capable amphibious force in the world. The Wasp-class LHDs are currently the largest amphibious ships in the world. The lead ship, USS Wasp (LHD 1) was commissioned in July 1989 in Norfolk, Va. LHA Replacement or LHA(R) is the next step in the incremental development of the “Big Deck Amphib”. She is being designed to accommodate the Marine Corps’ future Air Combat Element (ACE) including F-35B Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) and MV-22 Osprey with additional aviation maintenance capability and increased fuel capacities, while also providing additional cargo stowage capacities and enabling a broader, more flexible Command and Control capability.

My grandson is stationed at NAS Norfolk.

Edit to add: LHD-1 has medical and dental facilities capable of providing intensive medical assistance to 600 casualties, whether combat incurred or brought aboard ship during humanitarian missions.

[NickB79]

16. Too bad there aren't any nuclear-powered carriers available

In previous natural disasters, they were able to run cables from them to power key infrastructure from their reactors.

[glacierbay]

17. I think it was in the 70's or the 80's

that a nuclear powered attack sub provided power to New Orleans after a hurricane. Can't find the story right now, but I seem to remember that happening.
A sub might be better as it could get closer to the coast line than a carrier could.

[Posteritatis]

21. US carriers and subs routinely do that during major disasters

Katrina, the southeast Asian tsunami, the works.

Both can provide electricity, and the carriers can produce absurd quantities of fresh water. And, of course, there's the crews on board who can do their own things.

[Sirveri]

40. Ugh, I hate running water in port, I hope they were reprocessing instead

desal in port clogs and fouls all the equipment up, some poor bastards in M-Div will be cleaning those things for weeks. Really hope they're piping the water in for reprocess rather than pulling it up from the harbor water.

[DiverDave]

41. hmm, an invention, perhaps, to

solve that messy and time consuming issue?

Sounds like a great way to clean up oily water AND help out the poor
enlisted guys that have to clean up the mess.

[mahannah]

20. Best use of our military in years. Well done.

[krispos42]

22. I'm waiting for Obama to put on a flight suit and land a helicopter.

Oh, how the right-wing heads would explode...

[MynameisBlarney]

25. I bet...

he'd damn sure need a bigger codpiece.

haHA!

[MynameisBlarney]

24. America! Fuck Yeah!

Coming to save the motherfucking day, yeah!

[Hotler]

27. More wasteful spending. More big government.

Fucking 47%ers need to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps instead of relying on handouts from my tax dollars.
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Do I need the sarcasum thingy????

[MynameisBlarney]

29. *sighs*

You forgot teh Soshulisms!

[defacto7]

30. I suppose

private enterprise could just send in their Navy with their carriers and helicopters, and maybe their private nuclear subs as well.

Sure....

[Spitfire of ATJ]

31. They need to send in the Comort and the Mercy too.

[AzDar]

32. This is how Government is *supposed* to work.

[HooptieWagon]

33. Good news!

Besides chopper landing platforms, they can make a lot of fresh water, and have hospital beds and medical staff if needed.

Thats the difference between Bush and Obama.

[Auntie Bush]

34. I think some CRUISE SHIPS should be sent in to house the homeless.

[Posteritatis]

37. The carriers are definitely better as an immediate response

Each one of them could power and water a small city on its own, and then there's things like the medical facilities, aircraft, etc.

Cruise ships would be a nice gesture, but how're you going to get them docked in that mess, never mind get a few thousand people from the other side of the disaster area to them, to say nothing of provisions and the like? That sort of thing's easier to handle from land, but the Navy's the best option for power, water and S&R right off.

[DiverDave]

42. Pretty sure it was sarcasm

after Katrina, bush sent in cruise ships,at wildly inflated prices, to help out after that.
Just to compare and contrast the repuke and the Democratic response to a
natural disaster.

[Posteritatis]

45. Stupid Poe's Law; I can never tell anymore. (nt)

[SCVDem]

36. If you've got the hose

these ships have the pumps.

[Historic NY]

38. Great idea establish mini airports where the damage is....

who says big government is bad.