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And–after the Pentagon renewed its threat to cut over $400 million in federal funds to Harvard–the Law School reluctantly agreed last week to again grant Pentagon recruiters access to the career placement office...
Last Monday was supposed to be the final day for the 22 soldiers who have been working 16-hour days tracking the weather, fielding requests for equipment and troops, and preparing updates for generals in a cramped jerry-rigged Katrina operations center the basement of the Pentagon. Recovery efforts for that hurricane were to have wound down enough so that these reserve and National Guard soldiers could get to go back to their families and civilian jobs. But the approach of Hurricane Rita changed all that...
...Friday the center, a spare room in the Pentagon's basement, was humming with activity, fully staffed for handling both the Katrina recovery and preparations for Hurricane Rita, which would hit the Texas and Louisiana coast the next day. Fifteen people on each shift shared six computer workstations with a Special Forces Colonel, Jeff Pounding in charge...
...Pentagon officials were relieved that the storm looked like it would bypass much of Texas. The state is home to Ft. Hood, the Army's largest base, and dozens of other military Installations with tens of thousands of soldiers and their families. There is also the vital defense industry-all the big contractors have facilities in Texas and a big natural disaster could potentially damage the military industrial base. Another concern was the ports of Beaumont and Galveston, which are key debarkation points for U.S. troops and goods going to Iraq and Afghanistan. "We're not just looking at Rita...
...home. To be sure, McClellan indicated that the president is thinking of a lead role for the Department of Defense in disaster relief only when the chaos is of the order of magnitude of a Katrina. But that's still a big new assignment. And McClellan insists that the Pentagon is not overextended. "The military has said otherwise," he told reporters Sunday. Don't be surprised if before too long there's a whole new assignment for American troops...