T&T: Fw: [AGLCA-2006:1732] Great Lakes HSCG Live Fire Training

[Jeff Bacon]

Probably not, but I bet they were the best trained for water rescues, helicopter rescues, and other water biased exersizes.That quote did not say thaey had to be trained in machine gun operation for Katrina, only that that all Coast guardsmen had to be trained to handle any situation anywhere.

 Of course the public had guns, and were firing them

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
>From: Roger Bingham <rbingham@tele2.fr>
>Sent: Nov 3, 2006 7:49 AM
>To: 'Trawlers & Trawlering' <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com>
>Subject: Re: T&T: Fw: [AGLCA-2006:1732] Great Lakes HSCG Live Fire Training
>
>Snip
>> When asked why Graet Lakes guardsmen need to be tranied in 
>> machine guns, the answer given by Captain Bruce Jones (Sector 
>> Commander of all 24 stations in Lake Michigan) was that "all 
>> guardsmen everywhere need to be trained to handle a stiuation 
>> anywhere."  He recalled the Katrina emergency where properly 
>> trained personnel from the Great Lakes were sent to New 
>> Orleans to assist in that emergency.
>
>Wow! Did they use their machine guns in New Orleans????
>
>Regards
>Roger Bingham
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