USAF After the Hurricane: 
The list of active and reserve military support being provided for post-Katrina work is extensive. Among Air Force elements participating are: helicopters from Air Force Special Operations Commands’ 347th Rescue Wing, Moody AFB, Ga., and Air Force Reserve Command’s 920th RQW, Patrick AFB, Fla.; operational staging facilities at Barksdale AFB, La., and Maxwell AFB, Ala.; an airfield support team from Air Mobility Command’s 615th Contingency Response Wing, Travis AFB, Calif.; and airlift of supplies by numerous AMC C-17s and C-5s.
Special-ops aviators, a physicist from the intelligence community, and an enlisted Marine with decades of deployments: U.S. Space Command’s military and civilian leaders who spoke May 7 were as likely to come from strictly space backgrounds as not. These are some of the day’s insights from inside the command, which…