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  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • July 14, 2005. Shelby, Mississippi..Preparing troops for war - 'Reality' training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi.  National Guardsmen from the 2/127th Bravo Company, Wisconsin National Guard train for likely Iraq scenarios before deployment. L/R; American civilians James Myron and Antoine Josserand play the part of Iraqi bomb makers awaiting an assault..Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23feb14-Banksy Security011.JPG
  • July 14, 2005. Shelby, Mississippi..Preparing troops for war - 'Reality' training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi.  National Guardsmen from the 2/127th Bravo Company, Wisconsin National Guard train for likely Iraq scenarios before deployment. Debrief following mock roadside bombing..Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • July 14, 2005. Shelby, Mississippi..Preparing troops for war - 'Reality' training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi.  National Guardsmen from the 2/127th Bravo Company, Wisconsin National Guard train for likely Iraq scenarios before deployment. .Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 28 August 2012. New Orleans, Louisiana,  USA. <br />
The Louisiana National Guard patrols an almost deserted Bourbon Street in the French Quarter. The Guard is in place ahead of Hurricane Isaac to provide enhanced security patrols. The 7th year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is tomorrow and with a storm lurking in the Gulf many have evacuated as an uneasy calm settles over New Orleans.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 28 August 2012. New Orleans, Louisiana,  USA. <br />
The Louisiana National Guard patrols an almost deserted Bourbon Street in the French Quarter. The Guard is in place ahead of Hurricane Isaac to provide enhanced security patrols. The 7th year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is tomorrow and with a storm lurking in the Gulf many have evacuated as an uneasy calm settles over New Orleans.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 28 August 2012. New Orleans, Louisiana,  USA. <br />
With no mass shelters for city residents, the only occupants of the Ernst N Morial convention center are the Louisiana National Guard. The guard is in place ahead of Hurricane Isaac to provide enhanced security patrols. The 7th year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is tomorrow and with a storm lurking in the Gulf many have evacuated as an uneasy calm settles over New Orleans.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 28 August 2012. New Orleans, Louisiana,  USA. .With no mass shelters for city residents, the only occupants of the Ernst N Morial convention center are the Louisiana National Guard. The guard is in place ahead of Hurricane Isaac to provide enhanced security patrols. The 7th year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is tomorrow and with a storm lurking in the Gulf many have evacuated as an uneasy calm settles over New Orleans..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 July 2006 - New Orleans - Louisiana. Guard duty. Looter Patrol. The Louisiana National Guard patrol the streets of the shattered lower 9rth ward as the city cracks down on law and order.
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  • 28 August 2012. New Orleans, Louisiana,  USA. <br />
With no mass shelters for city residents, the only occupants of the Ernst N Morial convention center are the Louisiana National Guard. The guard is in place ahead of Hurricane Isaac to provide enhanced security patrols. The 7th year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is tomorrow and with a storm lurking in the Gulf many have evacuated as an uneasy calm settles over New Orleans.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 29 August 2015. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Katrina 10th Anniversary.<br />
A Marine honor guard leads politicians and mourners to  the monument dedicated to the victims and survivors of the storm. <br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com.
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  • 21 April 2011. London, England..A Royal foot guard, a member of the Scots guards and his bearskin hat  outside Clarence House near  Buckingham Palace in the run up to Catherine Middleton's marriage to Prince William..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 April 2011. London, England..A Royal foot guard, a member of the Scots guards and his bearskin hat  outside Clarence House near  Buckingham Palace in the run up to Catherine Middleton's marriage to Prince William..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 April 2011. London, England..A Royal foot guard, a member of the Scots guards and his bearskin hat  outside Clarence House near  Buckingham Palace in the run up to Catherine Middleton's marriage to Prince William..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 April 2011. London, England..Armed police and a Royal Foot Guard, a member of the Scots Guards at sentry duty at  Buckingham Palace as the Royal Mail is delivered in the run up to Catherine Middleton's marriage to Prince William..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 April 2010. London, England..A Royal Foot Guard, a member of the Scots Guards stands at sentry duty at  Buckingham Palace in the run up to Catherine Middleton's marriage to Prince William..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2015. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Katrina 10th Anniversary.<br />
A Marine honor guard leads politicians and mourners to  the monument dedicated to the victims and survivors of the storm. <br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com.
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  • 29 August 2015. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Katrina 10th Anniversary.<br />
A Marine honor guard leads politicians and mourners to  the monument dedicated to the victims and survivors of the storm. <br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com.
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  • 28th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. Thousands of people sought  shelter inside the New Orleans Saints' Superdome the night before the storm hit. Major Bush of the Louisiana National Guard was one of those officials tasked with organising the dome.
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  • 28th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Shelter of last resort. Members of the Louisiana National Guard prepare to take charge as thousands of desperate people queue to get into the Superdome on the eve of Hurricane Katrina.<br />
Photo Credit: Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 21 April 2011. London, England..A Royal foot guard, a member of the Scots guards and his bearskin hat  outside Clarence House near  Buckingham Palace in the run up to Catherine Middleton's marriage to Prince William..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 30 Jan, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana. Post Katrina.<br />
Five months after hurricane Katrina hit the city, the University of New Orleans welcomes some 12,000 students back to their Lakefront campus. The film department stores and secures what remains of its heavily looted equipment. Some in the department have alleged much of the equipment went missing when the National Guard was based on the campus, using the film departments' lighting equipment to illuminate their base at the time.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana. Lower 9th ward. Great Flood commemoration and memorial ceremony; to 'honor and remember our loved ones who have passed. <br />
Members of the Louisiana National Guard who helped rescue people from the floods of a year ago return to the devastated neighbourhood  to form an honor guard as people prepare to pay tribute to and salute the victims of hurricane Katrina, which struck one year ago today.<br />
Photo Credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 26 July 2006 - New Orleans - Louisiana. Law and Order. <br />
2228 MP Company, Louisiana National Guard. Military Police patrol. 5th District. <br />
With crime beginning to pick up as people return to the city following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, 300 Louisiana National Guardsmen returned to New Orleans to supplement local police and provide increased cover and back up in parts of the city that remain derelict and thinly populated since the devastating floods. MP's stop to question a suspicious man who turn out to be drunk. He insists on lifting his shirt to show the MP's an unhealed gunshot wound, along with what they suspect to be a gaping wound from a self removed catheter bag. The man needs serious medical attention but refuses to accept an offer of assistance and stumbles away into the night.
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
An army chinook CH-47 twin rotor helicopter on a sandbagging mission. Sand bags attempt to join the dots and connect what little remains of fragile barrier islands. It is unlikely the bags will survive a hurricane. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and inpending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valient as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. A hurricane will likely roll over and blast through any sandbag 'barrier island,' blowing thousands of large white plastic bags far and wide across the landscape. That will really help the environment! <br />
Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disasterous effects of man's inteference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's inteference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 13 May 2010. Elmer Island, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Louisiana National Guard of the 922nd Horizontal Engineer Company, 769th Engineer Battalion fight a losing battle against mother nature as they battle against the strong currents to close the inland waterways from the ocean now depositing oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe on the beaches. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 13 May 2010. Elmer Island, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Sgt George Achee of the Louisiana National guard inspects sandbags deposited earlier and already disappearing fast with the tide. Like King Canute before them, Louisiana National Guardsmen of the 922nd Horizontal Engineer Company, 769th Engineer Battalion fight a losing battle against mother nature as they battle against the strong currents to close the inland waterways from the ocean now depositing oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe on the beaches. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 06 May 2010. Shell Beach, Louisiana. Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum environmental oil spill disaster.<br />
Soldiers from the 2225th Multi-Role Bridge Company Louisiana National Guard commence work on a floating pontoon which will be used by local fishermen to load oil containment boom. With oil reaching ever closer to the St Bernard Parish wetlands, it is vitally important to get more oil containment booms in place.<br />
Photo credit;Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 06 May 2010. Shell Beach, Louisiana. Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum environmental oil spill disaster.<br />
Soldiers from the 2225th Multi-Role Bridge Company Louisiana National Guard commence work on a floating pontoon which will be used by local fishermen to load oil containment boom. With oil reaching ever closer to the St Bernard Parish wetlands, it is vitally important to get more oil containment booms in place.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 05 May 2010. Venice, Louisiana. Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum environmental oil spill disaster.<br />
Ubiquitous Halliburton has a hand in many things oil and gas and shares the blame with BP for responsibility for its part in the failed Deepwater Horizon oil rig collapse. Halliburton's facility was off limits to the media at the time this image was shot. To gain access one must arrange for a representative from the coastguard to escort you. The cost guard puts you on a list and then it's 'hurry up and wait.' They never did return my call.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 21 April 2011. London, England..Armed police officers guard the Prime Minister and other senior politicians at  Downing Street off Whitehall, part of the Royal wedding route where the procession will pass through en route to Buckingham Palace in the run up to Catherine Middleton's marriage to Prince William..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 07 May 2016. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
NPSL Soccer, Pan American Stadium.<br />
Marines Color Guard before kick off. <br />
New Orleans Jesters v Houston Hurricanes. Jesters win 3-0. <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 26 July 2006 - New Orleans - Louisiana. Law and Order. <br />
2228 MP Company, Louisiana National Guard. Military Police patrol. 5th District. <br />
With crime beginning to pick up as people return to the city following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, 300 Louisiana National Guardsmen returned to New Orleans to supplement local police and provide increased cover and back up in parts of the city that remain derelict and thinly populated since the devastating floods. Following the sounds of gunshots, MP's move on foot patrol through the streets looking for the possible source. Criminals will sometimes fire shots to distract patrols in one area whilst they commit crimes somewhere else nearby.
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  • 26 July 2006 - New Orleans - Louisiana. Law and Order. <br />
2228 MP Company, Louisiana National Guard. Military Police patrol. 5th District. <br />
With crime beginning to pick up as people return to the city following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, 300 Louisiana National Guardsmen returned to New Orleans to supplement local police and provide increased cover and back up in parts of the city that remain derelict and thinly populated since the devastating floods. MP's stop a young man for running a stop light and temporarily hold him when his ID returns a warrant, which turns out to have been expunged. The young man was on parole and technically breaking the terms of parole by driving with a suspended licence and no insurance. The MP's gave him a warning.
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  • 26 July 2006 - New Orleans - Louisiana. Law and Order. <br />
2228 MP Company, Louisiana National Guard. Military Police patrol. 5th District. <br />
With crime beginning to pick up as people return to the city following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, 300 Louisiana National Guardsmen returned to New Orleans to supplement local police and provide increased cover and back up in parts of the city that remain derelict and thinly populated since the devastating floods. Soldiers share the 3.00pm roll call and briefing in the temporary headquarters of the 5th district NOPD headquarters.
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  • 26 July 2006 - New Orleans - Louisiana. Young men walk past derelict buildings in the midtown part of the city. Much needs to be done to repair the ruined neighbourhoods where crime has started to take hold as youth returns to the city. The Louisiana National Guard have started to patrol the tough, thinly populated areas which NOPD is unable to handle on its own.
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  • 1 June, 2006. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. First day of hurricane season. An armed security guard stands watch over Army Corps engineers and contractors who have been threatened as they rebuild the 4,000 ft long, $34 million  flood wall, rebuilt by Cajun Contractors for the Army Corps of Engineers is almost complete and stands, in theory, ready to protect the devastated Lower 9th Ward from the Inner Harbor Navigational Canal. Photographed is the area where a huge barge smashed through the original flood wall, where a tidal wave of water rushed through, devastating the area where so many people died.
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's inteferance with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 june 2010. Wetlands of Plaquemines Parish, South Louisiana. <br />
Vanishing wetlands. Where once there was land, there is only the mere outline of old canals and channels, many dug by oil companies to pump their product ashore with little regard to the effects the chopping up of the wetlands would have. Chronic erosion of the land, a football pitch every 50 minutes, greatly reduced protection from hurricanes and impending BP oil slicks is the direct result of mismanagement and utter disregard for the environment. The army corps of engineers and the oil companies, together with inept government have a great deal to answer for. <br />
View from a blackhawk helicopter flown by airmen of the Nebraska Air National Guard over southern Louisiana as they assist in the dumping of sand bags onto barrier islands in a vain attempt to prevent BP oil from getting into the inner  wetlands. As valiant as their efforts are, the dumping of sand bags may well prove to be a complete waste of manpower, resources and money. Meanwhile, the mighty Mississippi river runs straight out to sea nearby, her valuable land building sediment carried far out into deep ocean as the region struggles to find a way to reverse the disastrous effects of man's interference with her flow. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09 June 2010. Fort Jackson, Venice, Louisiana.<br />
BP OIl Spill response. Soldiers from the 843rd Engineering Company Louisiana National Guard load giant sand bags in operation 'Pelican Island Mission' as they struggle to reinforce fragile barrier islands in an effort top stem the flow of BP's catastrophic oil spill as it <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09 June 2010. Fort Jackson, Venice, Louisiana.<br />
France-Soir foreign correspondent Alexandra Gonzalez accompanies Soldiers from the843rd Engineering Company Louisiana National Guard as they load giant sand bags in operation 'Pelican Island Mission' as they struggle to reinforce fragile barrier islands in an effort top stem the flow of BP's catastrophic oil spill as it washes ashore.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09 June 2010. Fort Jackson, Venice, Louisiana.<br />
BP OIl Spill response. Soldiers from the 843rd Engineering Company Louisiana National Guard load giant sand bags in operation 'Pelican Island Mission' as they struggle to reinforce fragile barrier islands in an effort top stem the flow of BP's catastrophic oil spill as it <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09 June 2010. Fort Jackson, Venice, Louisiana.<br />
BP OIl Spill response. Soldiers from the 843rd Engineering Company Louisiana National Guard load giant sand bags in operation 'Pelican Island Mission' as they struggle to reinforce fragile barrier islands in an effort top stem the flow of BP's catastrophic oil spill.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09 June 2010. Fort Jackson, Venice, Louisiana.<br />
BP OIl Spill response. Soldiers from the 843rd Engineering Company Louisiana National Guard load giant sand bags in operation 'Pelican Island Mission' as they struggle to reinforce fragile barrier islands in an effort top stem the flow of BP's catastrophic oil spill as it <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09 June 2010. Fort Jackson, Venice, Louisiana.<br />
BP OIl Spill response. Soldiers from the 843rd Engineering Company Louisiana National Guard load giant sand bags in operation 'Pelican Island Mission' as they struggle to reinforce fragile barrier islands in an effort top stem the flow of BP's catastrophic oil spill as it <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09 June 2010. Fort Jackson, Venice, Louisiana.<br />
BP OIl Spill response. Soldiers from the 843rd Engineering Company Louisiana National Guard load giant sand bags in operation 'Pelican Island Mission' as they struggle to reinforce fragile barrier islands in an effort top stem the flow of BP's catastrophic oil spill as it <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09 June 2010. Fort Jackson, Venice, Louisiana.<br />
 Soldiers from the 843rd Engineering Company Louisiana National Guard as they load giant sand bags in operation 'Pelican Island Mission' as they struggle to reinforce fragile barrier islands in an effort top stem the flow of BP's catastrophic oil spill as it washes ashore.<br />
The ecological and economic impact of BP's oil spill is devastating to the region. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is evading booms laid out to stop it thanks in part to the dispersants which means the oil travels at every depth of the Gulf and washes ashore wherever the current carries it. The Louisiana wetlands produce over 30% of America's seafood and oil and gas production. They are the most fertile wetlands and nurseries of their kind in the world. BP's oil is killing everything.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09 June 2010. Fort Jackson, Venice, Louisiana.<br />
BP OIl Spill response. Soldiers from the 843rd Engineering Company Louisiana National Guard load giant sand bags in operation 'Pelican Island Mission' as they struggle to reinforce fragile barrier islands in an effort top stem the flow of BP's catastrophic oil spill as it <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09 June 2010. Fort Jackson, Venice, Louisiana.<br />
BP OIl Spill response. Soldiers from the 843rd Engineering Company Louisiana National Guard load giant sand bags in operation 'Pelican Island Mission' as they struggle to reinforce fragile barrier islands in an effort top stem the flow of BP's catastrophic oil spill as it <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09 June 2010. Fort Jackson, Venice, Louisiana.<br />
BP OIl Spill response. Soldiers from the 843rd Engineering Company Louisiana National Guard load giant sand bags in operation 'Pelican Island Mission' as they struggle to reinforce fragile barrier islands in an effort top stem the flow of BP's catastrophic oil spill as it <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09 June 2010. Fort Jackson, Venice, Louisiana.<br />
BP OIl Spill response. Soldiers from the 843rd Engineering Company Louisiana National Guard load giant sand bags in operation 'Pelican Island Mission' as they struggle to reinforce fragile barrier islands in an effort top stem the flow of BP's catastrophic oil spill as it <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 13 May 2010. Grand Isle, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Members of the Louisiana National Guard arrive at the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and fisheries to await furtur instruction as oil lands on the beaches of Jefferson and Lafourche parishes to the west of the Mississippi River outlet. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is evading booms laid out to stop it thanks in part to the dispersants which means the oil travels at every depth of the Gulf. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 13 May 2010. Grand Isle, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Members of the Louisiana National Guard travel along Louisiana highway 1in Grand Isle as oil lands on the beaches of Jefferson and Lafourche parishes to the west of the Mississippi River outlet. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is evading booms laid out to stop it thanks in part to the dispersants which means the oil travels at every depth of the Gulf. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 13 May 2010. Elmer Island, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Louisiana National Guard of the 922nd Horizontal Engineer Company, 769th Engineer Battalion fight a losing battle against mother nature as they battle against the strong currents to close the inland waterways from the ocean now depositing oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe on the beaches. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 13 May 2010. Elmer Island, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Sgt George Achee of the Louisiana National guard inspects sandbags deposited earlier and already disappearing fast with the tide. Like King Canute before them, Louisiana National Guardsmen of the 922nd Horizontal Engineer Company, 769th Engineer Battalion fight a losing battle against mother nature as they battle against the strong currents to close the inland waterways from the ocean now depositing oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe on the beaches. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 13 May 2010. Elmer Island, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Sgt George Achee of the Louisiana National guard inspects sandbags deposited earlier and already disappearing fast with the tide. Like King Canute before them, Louisiana National Guardsmen of the 922nd Horizontal Engineer Company, 769th Engineer Battalion fight a losing battle against mother nature as they battle against the strong currents to close the inland waterways from the ocean now depositing oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe on the beaches. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 13 May 2010. Elmer Island, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
A Louisiana National Guard helicopter ferrying sand bags works with the 922nd Horizontal Engineer Company, 769th Engineer Battalion fight a losing battle against mother nature as they battle against the strong currents to close the inland waterways from the ocean now depositing oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe on the beaches. <br />
Photo credit;Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 06 May 2010. Shell Beach, Louisiana. Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum environmental oil spill disaster.<br />
Soldiers from the 2225th Multi-Role Bridge Company Louisiana National Guard commence work on a floating pontoon which will be used by local fishermen to load oil containment boom. With oil reaching ever closer to the St Bernard Parish wetlands, it is vitally important to get more oil containment booms in place.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 06 May 2010. Shell Beach, Louisiana. Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum environmental oil spill disaster.<br />
Soldiers from the 2225th Multi-Role Bridge Company Louisiana National Guard commence work on a floating pontoon which will be used by local fishermen to load oil containment boom. With oil reaching ever closer to the St Bernard Parish wetlands, it is vitally important to get more oil containment booms in place.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 06 May 2010. Shell Beach, Louisiana. Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum environmental oil spill disaster.<br />
Soldiers from the 2225th Multi-Role Bridge Company Louisiana National Guard commence work on a floating pontoon which will be used by local fishermen to load oil containment boom. With oil reaching ever closer to the St Bernard Parish wetlands, it is vitally important to get more oil containment booms in place.<br />
Photo credit;Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 06 May 2010. Shell Beach, Louisiana. Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum environmental oil spill disaster.<br />
Soldiers from the 2225th Multi-Role Bridge Company Louisiana National Guard commence work on a floating pontoon which will be used by local fishermen to load oil containment boom. With oil reaching ever closer to the St Bernard Parish wetlands, it is vitally important to get more oil containment booms in place.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 06 May 2010. Shell Beach, Louisiana. Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum environmental oil spill disaster.<br />
Soldiers from the 2225th Multi-Role Bridge Company Louisiana National Guard commence work on a floating pontoon which will be used by local fishermen to load oil containment boom. With oil reaching ever closer to the St Bernard Parish wetlands, it is vitally important to get more oil containment booms in place.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 06 May 2010. Shell Beach, Louisiana. Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum environmental oil spill disaster.<br />
Soldiers from the 2225th Multi-Role Bridge Company Louisiana National Guard commence work on a floating pontoon which will be used by local fishermen to load oil containment boom. With oil reaching ever closer to the St Bernard Parish wetlands, it is vitally important to get more oil containment booms in place.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 06 May 2010. Shell Beach, Louisiana. Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum environmental oil spill disaster.<br />
Soldiers from the 2225th Multi-Role Bridge Company Louisiana National Guard commence work on a floating pontoon which will be used by local fishermen to load oil containment boom. With oil reaching ever closer to the St Bernard Parish wetlands, it is vitally important to get more oil containment booms in place.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 06 May 2010. Shell Beach, Louisiana. Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum environmental oil spill disaster.<br />
Locals look on as soldiers from the 2225th Multi-Role Bridge Company Louisiana National Guard commence work on a floating pontoon which will be used by local fishermen to load oil containment boom. With oil reaching ever closer to the St Bernard Parish wetlands, it is vitally important to get more oil containment booms in place.<br />
Photo credit;Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 06 May 2010. Shell Beach, Louisiana. Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum environmental oil spill disaster.<br />
Soldiers from the 2225th Multi-Role Bridge Company Louisiana National Guard commence work on a floating pontoon which will be used by local fishermen to load oil containment boom. With oil reaching ever closer to the St Bernard Parish wetlands, it is vitally important to get more oil containment booms in place.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 06 May 2010. Shell Beach, Louisiana. Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum environmental oil spill disaster.<br />
Soldiers from the 2225th Multi-Role Bridge Company Louisiana National Guard commence work on a floating pontoon which will be used by local fishermen to load oil containment boom. With oil reaching ever closer to the St Bernard Parish wetlands, it is vitally important to get more oil containment booms in place.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 05 May 2010. Venice, Louisiana. Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum environmental oil spill disaster.<br />
Ubiquitous Halliburton has a hand in many things oil and gas and shares the blame with BP for responsibility for its part in the failed Deepwater Horizon oil rig collapse. Halliburton's facility was off limits to the media at the time this image was shot. To gain access one must arrange for a representative from the coastguard to escort you. The cost guard puts you on a list and then it's 'hurry up and wait.' They never did return my call.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 26 July 2006 - New Orleans , Louisiana. USA..Law and Order post hurricane Katrina. 2228 MP Company, Louisiana National Guard military Police patrol. 5th District. .With crime beginning to pick up as people return to the city following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, 300 Louisiana National Guardsmen returned to New Orleans to supplement local police and provide increased cover and back up in parts of the city that remain derelict and thinly populated since the devastating floods. MP's stop to question a suspicious man who turns out to be drunk. He insists on lifting his shirt to show the MP's unhealed gunshot wounds. The man needs serious medical attention but refuses to accept an offer of assistance and stumbles away into the night. The MP's insisted he be taken for treatment and eventually the man was treated, undoubtedly saving his life. Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 21 May 2010. Grand Isle, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. .BP Macondo Well disaster. Soldiers from the Louisiana National Guard discuss logistics with the park manager at Grand Isle state park. Authorities closed the beach as oil washes ashore in greater concentrations than previously seen on the once pristine beaches of Grand Isle. The economic and environmental impact is devastating with shrimp boats tied up, vacation rentals and charter boat fishing trips cancelled as police chase tourists from the beaches just two hours drive from New Orleans..Oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is evading booms laid out to stop it thanks in part to the dispersants which means the oil travels at every depth of the Gulf and washes ashore wherever the current carries it. .Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 May 2010. Grand Isle, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. .BP Macondo Well disaster. A US Coast Guard patrol heads out to sea to continue monitoring the extent of the oil spill as oil washes ashore in greater concentrations than previously seen on the once pristine beaches of Grand Isle. The economic and environmental impact is devastating with shrimp boats tied up, vacation rentals and charter boat fishing trips cancelled as police chase tourists from the beaches just two hours drive from New Orleans..Oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is evading booms laid out to stop it thanks in part to the dispersants which means the oil travels at every depth of the Gulf and washes ashore wherever the current carries it. .Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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