Jared Serbu: Pentagon’s disaster plan 10 years after Katrina

Saturday marks the ten-year anniversary of the day Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southern Louisiana. The Pentagon says in the decade since then, it’s mad...

Saturday marks the 10-year anniversary of the day Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southern Louisiana. The Pentagon said in the decade since then, it’s made several changes that are intended to get Defense Department resources to local disaster zones within hours instead of days. More from Federal News Radio’s DoD reporter, Jared Serbu.

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