'Appalling Gap' Found in Homeland Defense Readiness:
The U.S. military is not prepared to meet catastrophic threats at home, and it is suffering from an "appalling gap" in forces able to respond to chemical, biological and nuclear strikes on U.S. soil, according to a congressional commission report released yesterday.Hmm, you know, I'm pretty sure someone told me about this catastrophic clusterfuck of a national security infrastructure before…who was it? What was her name again…?
The situation is rooted in severe readiness problems in National Guard and reserve forces, which would otherwise be well-suited to respond to domestic crises but lack sufficient personnel and training, as well as $48 billion in equipment because of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report by the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves.
Oh yeah.
Katrina.
