Obama: Military will aid in oil spill cleanup

More than 3,000 military training students at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida cheered frequently as the President on Tuesday pledged to use military might to help save the Gulf Coast from the oil spill.

Florida (Pensacola Business Journal) June 16, 2010 -- More than 3,000 military training students cheered frequently as the President on Tuesday pledged to use military might to help save the Gulf Coast from the oil spill, then talked about the military investment in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The audience of mostly Marines and sailors crowded into a massive aircraft maintenance hangar at Pensacola Naval Air Station for a speech in which the President called the oil spill the worst environmental disaster in the nation's history.

"This is an assault on our shores, and we're going to fight back with everything we've got," he said. The President said the country has authorized the deployment of 17,500 National Guard members to respond to the crisis, and so far, about 1,600 have been activated.

"That leaves a lot of Guardsmen ready to help," he said. The speech at the Naval Air Technical Training Center was the last stop of the President's two-day visit to the coastal area between Gulfport, Mississippi, and Pensacola.

Link: http://www.pnj.com/article/20100616/NEWS01/6160342/Obama-Military-will-aid-in-oil-spill-cleanup

Source: DHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report