Soldiers recover millions in soggy cash from New Orleans

[Greyskye]

By Capt. Kevin Hynes
September 27, 2005


NEW ORLEANS (Army News Service, Sept. 26. 2005) — Soldiers of the Nebraska National Guard helped the U.S. Treasury Department rescue an estimated $50 to $100 million earlier this month from a flooded vault in New Orleans.

The soggy, stinking cash and coins were removed from a flooded Loomis, Fargo & Co. building in New Orleans by members of the National Guard Counter Drug Task Force who dubbed the mission “Ocean’s 13,” as a sequel to the recent heist movie.

The mission was top secret, said Spc. Tyler Miles, a member of the 134th Infantry Detachment (Long Range Surveillance) who participated.

Armored convoy rolls in secrecy

Few of the Guardsmen knew what they were being tasked to do until they were briefed just moments before departing, according to Miles and fellow Nebraska Soldier Sgt. Jonathan Panipinto. Their cell phones were confiscated before the briefing to ensure that what they were about to be told would be kept within their confines until after the mission had been carried out.

Much more at: http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/print.php?story_id_key=7975

Gee, they sure went to a lot of effort to rescue the money!

:grr:

[rodeodance]

1. peeeuuuuuuu

[dretceterini]

2. I wonder how much of thsi money

will be funneled into DeLay's defense fund...

[Catherine Vincent]

3. Now we know why they wouldn't let anyone leave the Superdome or

the Convention Center.

[MadHound]

4. And what is even more bizarre

Is that they will now probably destroy all of that stinking cash, at least all of the paper.

Of course they do have to account for it all, but still and all.

And there are probably quite a few other places along Gulf Coast just like that, filled with soggy, stinking cash.

[Greyskye]

6. Slot machines

I keep thinking about all of those slot machines from the wrecked casinos. Think they cleared all the cash out of them before Katrina hit? :shrug:

[MadHound]

7. Yeah, slots and casino's did come to mind

But knowing some friends in the biz, and how casinos work, they probably had all the cash packed and gone days in advance.

[dogday]

5. But don't try to buy gas with it nt