President Bush requested an additional $51.8 billion on September 7. House of Representatives voted and approved on the measure Friday, September 2, 2005, without any debate. Senate quickly approved $10.5 billion in aid for victims September 1, 2005. The military relief effort, known as Joint Task Force Katrina, was commanded by Lieutenant General Russel L. More than 1,000 Army and Air National Guardsmen and 7,200 active-duty troops were stationed in the Gulf Coast region to assist with hurricane relief operations with some remaining several weeks. Over 20,000 evacuees were also flown out by the civilian air-fleet drafted into service, and 25 deaths occurred there, mostly elderly nursing home and hospice evacuees. This operation peaked during the weekend of September 3 and 4, and was completed by mid-week. Over 3,000 patients were cared for, and as DOD Medevac assets began arriving, patients were handed over and moved out to over a dozen cities. Additional DMATs were deployed there as the volume and tempo of patient arrivals increased, as the hospitals in the city began to evacuate their patients. Three DMATs arrived around 2 am on Wednesday morning, Aug 31, set up a field hospital Base of Operations in Concourse D, began offloading rescuees from helicopters, and provided medical care if necessary. When the levees were reported to have broken, the DMATs were moved to Baton Rouge on Tuesday, August 30, and as the needs were identified, teams were moved out that afternoon to the Superdome, and that night to the Louis Armstrong Airport. The National Disaster Medical System had activated essentially all teams in the country, and pre-staged multiple Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMATs), Disaster Mortuary Assistance Teams (DMORTs), and Veterinary Medicine Response Teams (VMATs) in Houston and Atlanta the day prior to, and the day of, landfall. received international aid and assistance from numerous countries. In a reversal of usual positions, the U.S. Monetary donations were way below the records set by the tsunami and 9/11 relief efforts in the U.S. Works related to Katrina sources at Wikisource.Media related to Hurricane Katrina at Wikimedia Commons.To meet Wikipedia's quality standards and conform to the neutral point of view policy, please help to introduce a more formal style and remove any personally invested tone. This article reads more like a story than an encyclopedia entry.
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