26 Quotes by Paul McHale

U.S. military forces executed the largest, fastest, most comprehensive and most responsive civil support mission ever. In a domestic relief operation unprecedented in scale, over 72,000 federal military and National Guard forces flowed into the Gulf Coast region over a 12-day period to assist fellow Americans in distress.

We need to be convinced that a dereliction of character has now been repaired and this type of deceit won't happen again,

Katrina taught us we can't rely on cable news broadcasts and early written reports to give an accurate assessment of the loss.

It is conceivable that a biological event would be so large, so catastrophic, that every agency of the federal government, most especially to include DoD, would be involved in a comprehensive federal response,

We have learned from the Katrina experience. Shame on us if we didn't. But for anyone to pretend that we have all the answers, while still involved in the initial response, would be both foolish and premature.

We anticipate providing from the Department of Defense a 500-bed mobile hospital. That will be deployed in the New Orleans area.

We prepared well. We were not passive. We were not slow.

We performed well, but we intend to get better,

With that drawdown toward the end of the week we recognize that the mission of Joint Task Force-Katrina is now approaching what we believe to be a successful conclusion,