Rescue teams use cyber tools

NEW ORLEANS -- Lt. Col. Rob Ament checks the gauges of his HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter as he prepares to search for Hurricane Katrina survivors. Flying missions out of Jackson, Miss., Colonel Ament and his team of Air Force reservists are finding innovative ways to use the Internet, e-mails and satellite technology to check for survivors and people who need still need help. He is the director of operations for the 920th Rescue Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Elaine Mayo)

Reserve family faces uncertainties after hurricane

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. -- Hurricane Katrina ripped away brick and sheetrock from the first floor of the Senior Master Sgt. David Hufton's home here but left the second floor seemingly unscathed. He and his family had not even lived in the house for a month before it was destroyed by the hurricane. The intelligence analyst with the 403rd Wing at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., is staying with his family at a hotel near Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. David Hufton)

Hoist rescue

NEW ORLEANS -- Tech. Sgt. Lem Torres and a young boy are lifted to safety from the roof of the child's flooded home. The pararescueman is from 38th Rescue Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., and is deployed to New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina search-and-rescue operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez)

View from a hoist

NEW ORLEANS -- Scanning for signs of survivors, Tech. Sgt. Andrew Canfield keeps a close watch as the sun sets on the flooded city of New Orleans. Sergeant Canfield is a Reserve pararescueman working with a team of reservists and active duty Airmen conducting rescue missions across New Orleans. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bill Huntington)

Air Force MASF is last stop for some hurricane victims in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS -- Maj. Stacia Blyeu comforts an elderly patient at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport moments before she is evacuated from here Sept. 3. Major Blyeu is a flight nurse with the 452nd Air Evacuation Squadron at March Air Reserve Base, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt Jack Braden)

AF File Photo

MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. -- Chief Master Sgt. Mike Harper (left) and Tech. Sgt. Daniel Barrera carry a patient onto an Air Force Reserve Command C-130 Hercules here Aug. 31. Sixty-two patients, all from the Air Force Village in Gulfport, Miss., arrived here by bus and stayed in the base gym. The patients were moved Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Chief Harper is a 908th Airlift Wing loadmaster, and Sergeant Barrera is assigned to the 42nd Aeromedical Dental Operations Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Carl Bergquist)