Hurricane duty
Twenty-five soldiers and 14 trucks of the Nebraska Army National Guard 1195th Transportation Co., McCook, deploy this morning to Louisiana, to help with the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav. First Lt. Bobbi Jacobsen, (front row, far left) attachment commander of the McCook unit, said that 1,000 Nebraska National Guard personnel are part a federal mission to help with recovery after Gustav hit the Louisiana coast shortly before noon Monday. Jacobsen said that the McCook unit's soldiers, along with personnel from the Kearney and Lexington units, would most likely participate in recovery and transportation missions; they will be gone two to four weeks. Approximately 40,000 Guardsmen from across the nation have been called up to respond to requests for assistance from Louisiana.