Coast Guard to the Rescue

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Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:55:50 +0000

http://www.freep.com/voices/editorials/ekatrina10e_20050910.htm

Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen replaces Brown on the scene – after being dispatched there earlier this week as a new special deputy for hurricane recovery in the Department of Homeland Security. Allen managed Coast Guard operations in New York after 9/11, which gives him far more situational experience than Brown ever got setting up emergency services for the Edmond, Okla., city manager’s office in the 1970s.

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