The National Guard is extraordinarily busy these days, working to help families in the Southern states affected by a series of natural disasters. As the Army Corps of Engineers keeps a vigilant eye on the series of levees it maintains and overseas, the National Guard is building back-up barriers made of Hesco baskets filled with sand, according to the Department of Defense.
A fifteen-member team from the Louisiana National Guard is in the process of enforcing a levee 70 miles west of New Orleans to protect the city from the ever-swelling Mississippi River. Their mission is to create a Hesco basket barrier 10,000 feet long, reports the DoD. Louisiana local Army Spc. Thomas J. Mahfouz is proud of his work:
Meanwhile, the tornado outbreak in Alabama prompted the largest-ever response from the Alabama National Guard, according to The Pentagon Channel:
