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.

This Final Synthesis Report summarizes a four-year program to characterize and monitor carbonate mounds on the Mississippi/Alabama outer continental shelf.

Interview with Army veteran James Riley Chennault. The interview includes Chennault's personal experiences about the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II, childhood in Mississippi, moving to Texas in 1939, joining the 112th Cavalry, training, combat, and the Battle of Driniumor River. Chennault also talks about the mobilization of the Texas National Guard, Louisiana Maneuvers as part of the 3rd Army, rotation to the states, his assignment to a pack mule outfit, his discharge from the Army, and the daily routine of life in the horse cavalry. The interview includes an appendix with photographs.

Bimonthly newsletter published for employees of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. containing work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.

The Midwestern Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2008 is intended to assist with the recovery from the severe weather that affected the Midwest during the summer of 2008. The Jobs, Energy, Families, and Disaster Relief Act of 2008 includes some similar provisions, but these are not limited to the Midwest disaster. The disaster relief in the three bills is similar to that provided to assist with the recovery from the 2005 hurricanes and the 2007 Kansas tornadoes. This report broadly discusses the disaster relief provisions in other relevant legislation.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at

Interview with Jerell E. Crow. He entered the Coast Guard in 1940 and trained in Florida and New York City. He served aboard a Landing Ship, Tank (LST) when those ships were first introduced. He traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Neville Island Shipyard operated by the Dravo Corporation as part of a crew that brought an LST down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. From there, the crew practiced operations at Biloxi, Mississippi. Eventually, Crow travelled to San Diego aboard the LST through the Panama Canal. From there, he went to Guadalcanal and unloaded tanks. Eventually, his ship was hit at Saipan and he was wounded. He also served aboard an LST during the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Afterwards, Crow's LST was present in Tokyo Bay for the surrender. He visited Hiroshima while on occupation duty after the atomic bomb was dropped. Eventually, his LST made its way back to San Francisco where he was discharged.

Advance critical mission capabilities of air and space expeditionary.

Memorandum of Meeting – 8/9/2005 – DOD BRAC Recommendations impacting 186th ARW

Memorandum of Meeting - Congressman Gene Taylor's Staff. Mr. Peranich and Mr. Marting reviewed a binder of information regarding the DoD BRAC recommendation that converts Keesler Medical Center from an inpatient facility to an outpatient clinic and ambulatory surgery center.

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 a delegation representing 186th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Air National Guard, located at Key Field Air Guard Station (AGS) to discuss BRAC Recommendations Impacting the 186th ARW.

Memorandum of Meeting with Congressional and community representatives of Stennis Space Center, Mississippi. The guests reaffirmed the position presented during the Regional Hearing, that the DoD recommendation that moved the Human Resources Service Center-Southeast (HRSC-SE) was based on flawed assumptions; specifically that HRSC-SE is a typical "leased installation" and requires $2M to meet force protection standards.

Regional Hearing Issue Summary - Regional Hearing - 19 July 2005 New Orleans, LA State of Mississippi Keesler AFB Biloxi Mississippi

Individual Letter from concerned citizen Glinda Taylor regarding 186th Air Refueling Wing

Letters from Concerned citizens regarding the Air Force's plan to ground a third fo the ANG under the BRAC

Community Input - Key Field Air Guard Station - Memo and supporting data from Langford Knight and Tom Williams

Community Input - Key Field Air Guard Station Mississippi 186th ARW - BEST FOR AMERICA -The Argument Against Realignment- Supporting Document

Community Input - Letter - Costs to Replace Fire Protection - Key Field Air Guard Station Meridian -

Community Input - Departmanet of the Navy, Human Resources Service Center-Southeast, NASA-Stennis Space Center, Mississippi.

Disregard restriction header and footer - The Honorable BJ Penn, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment), met at 0931 on 11 March 2005 with Mr. Den Knecht and Mr. George L. Freeland, Jr., Jackson County Economic Development Foundation, Inc. (JCEDF), and Mr. Mark L. McAndrews, Director, Port of Pascagoula, regarding the future of NAVSTA Pascagoula, MS. The meeting took place in Room 43523 of the Pentagon. Mr. Frederick Latham; CAPT John Cohoon, USN, Commander Navy Installations; In addition, CDR David Sienicki, USN, OASN (I&E) ; and LCDR>Vincent J. Moore, JAGC, USNR, ODASN (IS&A) were also present.

Disregard restriction header and footer - Mr. Wayne Arny, Acting ASN (I&E) met with 6 members of the subject group in Room 4D583 at 0900 on 14 Sep 2004. The list of attendees is contained in enclosure (1). CDR David Seinicki CEC, USN, and Commander Margaret Carlson, JAGC, USN, of DASN (IS&A) office were also present.