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An 82nd Airborne Division soldier works with USS Iwo Jima sailors to pump out the basement of a hospital flooded by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. The U.S. military is ready to provide help to U.S. communities when confronted by disaster, Army Lt. Gen. Jeffrey S. Buchanan, commander of U.S. Army North, said at a Defense Writers’ Group event in Washington, D.C., Oct. 5, 2016. Army photo

Hurricane Katrina

An 82nd Airborne Division soldier works with USS Iwo Jima sailors to pump out the basement of a hospital flooded by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. The U.S. military is ready to provide help to U.S. communities when confronted by disaster, Army Lt. Gen. Jeffrey S. Buchanan, commander of U.S. Army North, said at a Defense Writers’ Group event in Washington, D.C., Oct. 5, 2016. Army photo

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