It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas.
But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities." [ http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/ ]
It's always best to read the embedded links in your own articles BEFORE passing them on ! .. Your article AND the related ones are dated Tuesday Sep 30, 2008 16:16:12 EDT - quite obviously NONE of your articles have a darn thing to do with President Obama ..
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