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A highway system outside of New Orleans is immersed in water making the roadways impassable by car due to the flooding caused by hurricane Katrina. The Marines of Special Purpose MAGTAF Katrina are acting as a command element for the support effort headquartered at Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base Belle Chasse, La outside of New Orleans, supporting Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Joint Task Force Katrina is an milti-service support effort to assist victims of hurricane Katrina.

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A Marine with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 365 looks out the window on a CH-46 Sea Knight at the devastation caused my hurricane Katrina. The Marines of Special Purpose MAGTAF Katrina are acting as a command element for the support effort headquartered at Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base Belle Chasse, La outside of New Orleans, supporting Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Joint Task Force Katrina is an milti-service support effort to assist victims of hurricane Katrina.

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An abandoned suburb of New Orleans sits beneath many feet of what due to the flooding caused by hurricane Katrina. The Marines of Special Purpose MAGTAF Katrina are acting as a command element for the support effort headquartered at Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base Belle Chasse, La outside of New Orleans, supporting Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Joint Task Force Katrina is an milti-service support effort to assist victims of hurricane Katrina.

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An abandoned suburb of New Orleans sits beneath many feet of what due to the flooding caused by hurricane Katrina. The Marines of Special Purpose MAGTAF Katrina are acting as a command element for the support effort headquartered at Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base Belle Chasse, La outside of New Orleans, supporting Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Joint Task Force Katrina is an milti-service support effort to assist victims of hurricane Katrina.

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A submersed suburb of New Orleans sits below the skyline of an abandoned city due to the flooding caused by hurricane Katrina. The Marines of Special Purpose MAGTAF Katrina are acting as a command element for the support effort headquartered at Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base Belle Chasse, La outside of New Orleans, supporting Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Joint Task Force Katrina is an milti-service support effort to assist victims of hurricane Katrina.

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A CH-46 Sea Knight from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 365 flys out of Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base Belle Chasse, La to deliver supplies to survivors of hurricane Katrina and The Marines of Special Purpose MAGTAF Katrina are acting as a command element for the support effort headquartered at Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base Belle Chasse, La outside of New Orleans, supporting Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Joint Task Force Katrina is an milti-service support effort to assist victims of hurricane Katrina.