Memorandum of Meeting with Keesler Medical Center Community Team to discuss recommended changes to the medical center at Keesler Air Force Base. Includes Community Presentation.

Attachment to August 6, 2005 Memorandum of Meeting regarding Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi. Includes: Responses to Requests for Additional Data Regarding Keesler Medical Center; Rep. Gene Taylor Analysis of Cost and Savings Estimates for Recommendation to Disestablish Inpatient Services at Keesler; Minutes of the Medica.1 Joint Cross-Service Group Meetings of July 2,2004 and January 4,2005; Site Visit Reports, Minutes, and Recommendations from the CARES Commission Regarding Veterans Affairs Medical Facilities in Biloxi and Gulfport and Arrangements with Keesler Medical Center; Articles from the New England Journal of Medicine and from MSNBC Regarding Medical Personnel and Training Needs for Wartime; Rep. Gene Taylor Analysis of Cost and Savings Estimates for Recommendation to Close Naval Station Pascagoula; Department of Defense Report: Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support, June 2005; March 9,2005 Testimony of Gen. Bantz J. Craddock, Commander of U.S. Southern Command.

Memorandum of meeting with Mississippi Senator Trent Lott regarding the BRAC 2005 recommendations for bases in Mississippi.

This article details the experiences of Peruvians Cynthia Canepa and Luis Alberto Ponce and how hurricane Katrina impacted thier lifes. Both the original Spanish article and the English translation are included.