As you may have heard on the news, North Carolina took a major hit with tornadoes last week. In case you haven’t seen anything on the news about what our troops are doing back home, here are a few images that tell the story better than I can.
Approximately 50 soldiers from the U.S Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg volunteered to assist in the clean-up of a Fayetteville neighborhood, April 21, that had been damaged by tornadoes in the area. More than 60 tornadoes touched down across the state of North Carolina, April 16, damaging more than 400 homes and destroying more than 60. The group of soldiers spent the morning sorting through the debris and placing it in piles for pick-up by the city. The group was mainly comprised of recent Special Forces Qualification Course graduates awaiting assignment to their following unit. Residents provided yard equipment and once the debris was sorted, the soldiers began working on the landscape. Many homes in the relatively new subdivision were reduced to rubble. The normally well-manicured lawns looked like they were strewn with toothpicks, as splintered wood and roofing shingles lay spread across the grass. Many of the soldiers conducting the clean-up had prior experience with natural disaster recovery, such as Sgt. Luis Gutierrez, a recent SFQC graduate who was sent to assist in the clean-up in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. “It just gives you a good feeling to be able to help out in a time of need.”
All photos taken by SSG Russell Klika.
Those SF solders sure are a great bunch of guys!
I vagely remember a couple years back, when there were ice storm in Kentucky among other places, leaving residents without electricity. Some people, especially some elders froze to death-and Obama gave the middle finger.
Here we are again, anothed disaster, and Obama once again is nowhere to be found, maybe on the golf course.
I know I preach to the Quoire-but what if Bush was President?
CJ, good post. And hats off to those military members in NC. I remember when I was in the Navy, living in SC, that the members of the Navy always helped with community efforts to help clean up and rebuild following hurricanes that affected Charleston, SC. I love that our young men and women who volunteer for combat duty, in some of the worst places on earth, are always so willing to help out back home in their adopted communities. That it is a choice they make, to do so, is lost entirely on liberals, who too frequently feel it necessary to force citizens into unwanted sacrifice, and claim it’s charity. Thanks again, CJ.