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Update from Lt Col Troy Krabbenhoft
North Dakota Wing Public Affairs Officer

Here is today's main events:

0900 we started up the Command Post. Lt Col Erik Ludlow was the Incident Commander and I served as the Ground Branch Director.

Members started to arrive around 0930 to 1000hrs and we had our first ground team crew to a house in Highland Park

We ran out of work to do there, so we dispatched to the KFGO "Mighty 790" radio tower room. If that flooded several people would be out with no radio to really know what was going on.

C/CMSgt Kurt Altenburg was on the CNN page, but they called him an "Army Soldier". We were thanked over KFGO 790's air for the support both MN and ND Wings got a shout out... Our wing commander, Col Karl Altenburg  was there by 1100hrs along with several members from the Red River Valley squadron for the initial activation of the command post.

We have over 55 members here now from as far as Minot in North Dakota. Several teams from MN have arrived and are staying on the North Dakota Air National Guard base, and some are staying in empty dorms on the Minnesota State University Moorhead Campus.

We did send and aircraft up at 1300hrs and was grounded due to weather at 1330. They did get a bunch of pictures though, and are being sent to me...

We had several success stories today. The command post is still up and running. It is going to be a 24 hour operation with other members taking over for the day crew.

The Safety officer shut us down for outdoor activities, but right now we have troops at the Fargo Dome filling sand bags. Last heard we needed 700,000 more. I think 2 million are already filled and placed on dikes. the flood forecast rose again today to 41 feet so everyone is going back to put another foot or so on their dikes....

I think that is all I have for now...

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