National Guard troops immediately started relief operations along the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast after Katrina made landfall. NORTHCOM activated its battle staff when the hurricane made landfall and selected LTG Honore to head Joint Task Force Katrina with First Army in the lead and Fifth Army in support. Concerned that command and control would become an issue, he requested that the Northern Command (NORTHCOM) establish a joint area of responsibility. The commander of the First Army, LTG Russel Honore, who had experience with flood and hurricane relief, realized that the storm would make landfall along the border of two states, each falling under the area of responsibly of different chains of command of both the Army and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Almost 10,000 National Guard troops were on the ground in Louisiana and Mississippi. The surge along the Louisiana coast would push water from the Gulf of Mexico into Lake Ponchartrain and exert enough pressure along the Industrial Canal levees to cause them to fail in three places and inundate New Orleans and surrounding parishes.īy the time Katrina made landfall on August 29, 2005, America's military was mobilizing for emergency response. But unlike past hurricanes in the region, it would not be wind that would wreak havoc but a 10-28 foot storm surge that would reach as far as 12 miles inland and virtually destroy cities like Gulfport and Pascagoula, Mississippi. The Mississippi Gulf Coast would, as it had numerous times in the past, bear the brunt of the destructive northeast quadrant of Katrina. Not only was the catastrophic Category 5 storm weakening as it approached land, but it would make landfall east of vulnerable New Orleans. Army) VIEW ORIGINALĪs Hurricane Katrina approached landfall, there was a palpable, collective sigh of relief across the Gulf Coast. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 5 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: U.S.
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