Hurricane Relief Efforts

Images of personnel and Coast Guard units conducting relief operations during Hurricane Katrina, highlighting teamwork in challenging conditions.

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Commandant Thomas H. Collins and President George W. Bush Visit - 26-HK-304-265. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-381-95. Hurricane Katrina

Coast Guard Personnel - Katrina and Rita - 26-HK-337-28. Hurricane Katrina

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-309-198. Vice Admiral Vivien Crea. Hurricane Katrina

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Commandant Thomas H. Collins and President George W. Bush Visit - 26-HK-304-284. Hurricane Katrina

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Commandant Thomas H. Collins and President George W. Bush Visit - 26-HK-304-265. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-382-62. Hurricane Katrina

NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY SOUDA BAY, Greece (Sept. 30, 2022) - Capt. Odin J. Klug, commanding officer, Naval Support Activity (NSA) Souda Bay (right); Command Master Chief Francisco Vargas, NSA Souda Bay (center); and Maj. Konstantinos Stavrakakis, chief, Chania Airport Fire Station (left), greet each other at the Joint Fire Training grounds before Live Fire Training on Sept. 30, 2022. NSA Souda Bay is an operational ashore installation which enables and supports U.S., Allied, Coalition, and Partner nation forces to preserve security and stability in the European, African, and Central Command areas of responsibility.

Coast Guard Cutters - Northland (WMEC 904) - 26-HK-76-89. CGC Northland ops-- Coast Guardsmen working inside cutter--051710. Hurricane Katrina

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Commandant Thomas H. Collins and President George W. Bush Visit - 26-HK-304-82. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - 26-HK-398-67. Hurricane Katrina

Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART) - Marine Safety Office St. Louis - 26-HK-119-60. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-381-4. Hurricane Katrina

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-308-11. Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, La., September 8, 2005 -- FEMA's US&R teams, at Zepher Field where they are staging operations, load up their boats into a Helicopter to conduct a search in St. Bernard Parish

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-308-113. Hurricane Katrina

Photos from Aviation Training Center, Mobile - 26-HK-420-36. Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, LA, September 6, 2005 -- FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Incident Support team members and local law enforcement officers discuss plans for operations into areas impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA

Coast Guard Cutters - Dauntless (WMEC 624) - 26-HK-73-79. CGC Dauntless --- Coast Guardsmen gearing up on deck--050928. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-382-3. Hurricane Katrina

Coast Guard Personnel - Katrina and Rita - 26-HK-337-23. Hurricane Katrina

Operation Zephyr - 26-HK-154-159. Images from Lt. Williams. Hurricane Katrina

Coast Guard personnel meet First Lady of Florida Casey DeSantis during a visit to Pine Island, Florida on Oct. 3, 2022. Coast Guard personnel assisted the people of Pine Island who were stranded due to Hurricane Ian. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jamie Mealor)

Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART) - Marine Safety Office St. Louis - 26-HK-122-38. Hurricane Katrina

Recruits that are part of the English Language Training Program (ELTP) attend initial processing classes at Training Center Cape May, Aug. 25, 2022.ELTP is a pilot program designed to assist recruits in meeting the English comprehension standard. Time is spent at both Training Center Cape May and the Defense Language Institute English Language Center located in San Antonio, Texas, at Lackland Air Force Base to complete basic training. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Timothy Tamargo

Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART) - Marine Safety Office St. Louis - 26-HK-119-56. Hurricane Katrina

A Kennedy Space Center Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) tactical vehicle stands at the ready during a medical support training course at the Florida spaceports Shuttle Landing Facility on May 17, 2019. Kennedy personnel and American Medical Response (AMR) contractor paramedics participated in the course, which was designed to familiarize the AMR paramedics with the centers Triage Forces deployment, including medical team members, fire/rescue personnel, environmental health specialists and flight operations crew members, as well as a helicopter, MRAP, fire pumper truck and triage vehicles. The AMR paramedics will assist the agency in contingency planning for the return of human spaceflight from Kennedy.

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-378-61. Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina, Metaire, LA, August 30, 2005 -- Members of the Incident Support Team give an operational briefing to local and state entities involved in search and rescue operations into areas impacted by Hurricane Katrina.

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-382-2. Hurricane Katrina

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Commandant Thomas H. Collins and President George W. Bush Visit - 26-HK-304-137. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit - 26-HK-133-32. Hurricane Katrina

220727-O-QR492-1006-CA PACIFIC OCEAN (July 27, 2022) Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Vancouver (FFH 331) conducts a replenishment-at-sea with Royal New Zealand Navy auxiliary oiler replenishment ship HMNZS Aotearoa (A11) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Twenty-six nations, 38 surface ships, three submarines, nine national land forces, more than 30 unmanned systems, approximately 170 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel will train and operate in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California, June 29 to Aug. 4. The worlds largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the worlds oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (Royal Canadian Navy photo by Sgt Ghislain Cotton)

Chief Petty Officer Robert Kirbert, Gulf Strike Team deck supervisor, briefs other strike team personnel Sept. 28, 2022 in Mobile, Alabama. Coast Guard personnel were preparing to mobilize and assist in operations for the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

Coast Guard Cutters - Northland (WMEC 904) - 26-HK-76-91. CGC Northland ops-- Coast Guardsmen working with ladder between cutter decks --051710. Hurricane Katrina

Rear Adm. Brendan C. McPherson, Commander of the Seventh Coast Guard District, visits the Coast Guard members staged in Matlacha Isles, Florida to assist the people of the Pine Island community, who were stranded due to Hurricane Ian on Oct. 4, 2022. The Coast Guard transferred over 700 people and essential goods to the island.

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Rita - 26-HK-307-8. Commandant Thomas H. Collins Visit. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-379-51. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-379-21. Hurricane Katrina

Coast Guard Cutters - Dauntless (WMEC 624) - 26-HK-73-194. CGC Dauntless --Coast Guardsmen and civilian crew members near tables on ship ---050928. Hurricane Katrina

Great Lakes Search and Rescue Detachment - 26-HK-144-351. Hurricane Katrina

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-309-231. Vice Admiral Vivien Crea. Hurricane Katrina

Coast Guard Personnel - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-90-3. Arriving CG personnel with civilians and camera crews outside building with CG signage2. Hurricane Katrina

Coast Guard Cutters - Dauntless (WMEC 624) - 26-HK-73-81. CGC Dauntless -- Coast Guardsmen in interior of commercial vessel -- 050928. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-382-65. Hurricane Katrina

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Commandant Thomas H. Collins and President George W. Bush Visit - 26-HK-304-163. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-380-60. Hurricane Katrina

Vanuatu Marine Police Wing Inspector Bianca Simeon and Vanuatu Fishery Department representative Dora Moses listen to a fishery boarding brief given by U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane (WMEC 903) members aboard the Harriet Lane bridge while in the Vanuatu Exclusive Economic Zone, Feb. 24, 2024. U.S. Coast Guard and Vanuatu are partnering to model good maritime governance and to bolster capacity by working with each other in combating illegal, unreported, unregulated fishing in the Blue Pacific. Coast Guard

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Commandant Thomas H. Collins and President George W. Bush Visit - 26-HK-304-183. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - MSO St. Louis Operations - 26-HK-390-82. Hurricane Katrina

Rear Adm. Nathan A. Moore, commander, 17th District (left), shakes hands with Willie G. Nunn, FEMA Region 10 Administrator at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska, Sept. 24, 2022. A Coast Guard C-130 Hercules airplane from Air Station Kodiak conducted an overflight of Western Alaska communities affected by Typhoon Merbok, providing Coast Guard leaders, Alaskan politicians and FEMA personnel an aerial view in the wake of Typhoon Merbok. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ian Gray.

Photos from Aviation Training Center, Mobile - 26-HK-420-76. Hurricane Katrina

Multi-Agencies Debris Task Force conducting an assessment in Jop. Missouri Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Matthew Smyth, an aircraft armament systems craftsman assigned to the 175th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Maryland Air National Guard, and Senior Airman Morris Fraiser, an aircraft armament systems journeyman assigned to the 175th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Maryland Air National Guard, prepare equipment during the DEFENDER-Europe 22 exercise, May 18, 2022, Ämari Air Base, Estonia. DEFENDER-Europe 22 is a multinational training exercise designed to demonstrate USAREUR-AFs ability to aggregate US-based combat power quickly in Eastern Europe across multiple theaters in support of NATO and the National Defense Strategy as well as to leverage host nations capabilities to increase USAREUR-AFs operational reach.

Kennedy Space Center personnel and American Medical Response (AMR) contractor paramedics gather at the Florida spaceports Shuttle Landing Facility on May 17, 2019, for a medical support training course. The course was designed to familiarize the AMR paramedics with the centers Triage Forces deployment, which included medical team members, fire/rescue personnel, environmental health specialists and flight operations crew members, as well as a helicopter, Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) tactical vehicle, fire pumper truck and triage vehicles. The AMR paramedics will assist the agency in contingency planning for the return of human spaceflight from Kennedy.

Cecil Lockhardt, left, and J. Floyd, members of the air station's fire department, inspect self-contained breathing apparatuses before stowing them in a compartment aboard a P-19 aircraft firefighting and rescue truck. Base: Naval Air Station, Jacksonville State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Coast Guard Personnel - 26-HK-413-120. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-379-61. Hurricane Katrina

Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART) - Marine Safety Office St. Louis - 26-HK-122-52. Hurricane Katrina

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-308-94. Hurricane Katrina

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-309-174. Vice Admiral Vivien Crea. Hurricane Katrina

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he joined National Interagency Fire Center and Bureau of Land Management personnel at a media briefing on summer's wildfire control efforts

Vice Admiral Vivien Crea - 26-HK-15-78. VADM Crea outside with CG personnel. Hurricane Katrina

031008-F-2021H-005. Base: Ellsworth Air Force Base State: South Dakota (SD) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: ACC

Officials and firefighters at NASA's Kennedy Space Center observe the dedication service for a memorial to the 343 first responder victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks at Fire Station 1 at Kennedy on Sept. 11, 2015. The ceremony dedicated a monument that includes a section of steel I-beam from the World Trade Center in New York.

Photos from Aviation Training Center, Mobile - 26-HK-420-81. Hurricane Katrina

Coast Guard Personnel - Supplies - 26-HK-84-172. Hurricane Katrina

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he joined National Interagency Fire Center and Bureau of Land Management personnel at a media briefing on summer's wildfire control efforts

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-309-59. Hurricane Katrina

Coast Guard Personnel - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-90-275. Coast Guardsman strapping down boxes, 050902 b. Hurricane Katrina

US Army Colonel Steve Cellucci (Right), brigade commander of the recreation Support Brigade of the United States Army, speaks to SENIOR Constable Gary Comber and other officers of the New South Wales police force about the Army Marksmanship Unit Numerous. COL Cellucci was at the Sydney International Shooting Centre where SFC James Graves (Not shown) won the Bronze Medal in the Men's Skeet during the 2000, at the Sydney Olympics. Base: Sydney Olympic Park State: New South Wales Country: Australia (AUS)

Members of the 374th Medical Group and 374th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department prepare to transport a simulated injured person during a major accident response exercise at Yokota Air Base, Japan, May 11, 2022. The MARE tested the bases response to a simulated F-16 Fighting Falcon crash and the ability to collaborate with mission partners. Due to the support of Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Misawa Air Base and Tokyo Fire Department, Fussa Fire Station, this was the largest MARE in Yokota history.

Aviation Training Center - Mobile Aircrew - Aftermath and Rescue - 26-HK-279-172. Hurricane Katrina

Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART) - Marine Safety Office St. Louis - 26-HK-122-33. Hurricane Katrina

CBPs Special Response Team (SRT) support FEMAs Urban Search and Rescue mission in the Ft Myers region after Hurricane Ian devastated the area.Photo by Rob Brisley

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At Fire Station 1 at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Fire and Rescue personnel pause for a moment of silence during the 9/11 memorial dedication ceremony.Kennedy Fire and Rescue Services commemorated the 11th anniversary of 9/11 with a ceremony that included a minute of silence at 10:28 a.m., which was the moment of collapse of the north tower of the World Trade Center. Kennedy center-wide emergency units dispatched by Fire Control engaged in one-minute sirens, the new memorial was dedicated and the Honor Guard performed a flag-folding ceremony.

Cape Canaveral, Fla. - At Fire Station 1 at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Gabe Wingard and Steve Dudgeon, both with NASA's Protective Services, fold the commemorative flag during a ceremony held by Kennedys Fire and Rescue personnel. Kennedy Fire and Rescue Services commemorated the 13th anniversary of 9/11 with a ceremony that included a minute of silence at 10:28 a.m., which was the moment of collapse of the north tower of the World Trade Center.

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Katrina Sector - 26-HK-306-99. Hurricane Katrina

Petty Officer Luke Bowman, a boatswain's mate assigned to Coast Guard Cutter Maple, stands in formation with his shipmates on the Maple buoy deck at the Graveyard of the Atlantic, June 13, 2022. The crew of the Maple commemorated lives lost by visiting two sunken Coast Guard Cutters and a German U-boat.

September 11th remembrance ceremony held in front of NASA Research Park Bldg-17 (Lunar Science Institute) hosted by the American Legion, Post 881, Moffett Field.

LT Smith of the Del-City , in charge of the command post in tornado devatated area out side of Oklahoma city personnel (not shown), discuss security of the area by local authorities and Army National Guard personnel. Base: Oklahoma City State: Oklahoma (OK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Miscellaneous - Coast Guard Operations - 26-HK-434-21. Hurricane Katrina

1ST LT. Mike Harner finishes his speech to the media and is helped to a wheelchair prior to being taken to Whiteman AFB hospital. Harner was injured during the June 25, 1996 bomb attack in Dhahran. Base: Whiteman Air Force Base State: Missouri (MO) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-381-86. Hurricane Katrina

National Guard Security at Alabama Tornado Site.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART) - Return - 26-HK-118-88. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-380-63. Hurricane Katrina

Miscellaneous - Coast Guard Operations - 26-HK-435-25. Hurricane Katrina

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - "Astronauts" were safely and successfully recovered from a "downed" Space Shuttle in a Mode VII contingency simulation led by Don Hammel, NASA Landing and Recovery Director. KSC Fire/Rescue and Emergency Medical workers, along with Johnson Space Center and Patrick Air Force Base personnel, participated in the drill. Mode simulations are held periodically at KSC to ensure contingency response forces are well prepared to respond to a wide variety of potential emergency situations.

Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Guam, U.S. Territory

Coast Guard Personnel - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-90-162. Coast Guardsman and photographer near buildings and construction materials2. Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, LA, September 3, 2005 -- FEMA Urban Search and Rescue task force members help local residents off of a military truck who were rescued from neighborhoods impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA

Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART) - Marine Safety Office St. Louis - 26-HK-122-2. Hurricane Katrina

Admiral Collins Visit - 26-HK-3-3. Admiral Collins looking at photos with CAPT Terry Gilbreath in JFO-type building. Hurricane Katrina

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Rita - 26-HK-307-34. Commandant Thomas H. Collins Visit. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-379-96. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit - 26-HK-133-223. Hurricane Katrina

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-308-178. Vice President Dick Cheney. Hurricane Katrina

Ambassador Mark Knapper, U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam and Col. Ryan Garlow, Vice Commander, 60th Air Mobility Wing, lay a wreath to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Operation Homecoming, at Detachment Two, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Hanoi, Vietnam on March 27, 2023. Operation Homecoming brought home 591 Prisoners of War from Vietnam, to the United States, and officially ending U.S involvement in the Vietnam War. The 60th Air Mobility Wing also participated by flying a C-17 to Hanoi to commemorate this anniversary, and will continue forward to events held by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Hawaii and upon return of the flight to Travis Air Force Base in Calif., the same flight path of the original flights.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At Fire Station 1 at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Fire and Rescue personnel stand at attention as Kennedy Director Robert Cabana, at right, participates in a 9/11 memorial dedication at Fire Station 1.Kennedy Fire and Rescue Services commemorated the 11th anniversary of 9/11 with a ceremony that included a minute of silence at 10:28 a.m., which was the moment of collapse of the north tower of the World Trade Center. Kennedy center-wide emergency units dispatched by Fire Control engaged in one-minute sirens, the new memorial was dedicated and the Honor Guard performed a flag-folding ceremony.

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