-- The Air National Guard flew 721 sorties in the past few days, evacuating over 11,000 people to safety and delivering 3,600 tons of life-saving supplies and equipment into the devastated area.

-- In New Orleans, National Guardsmen moved 20,000 people out Superdome in a safe and orderly fashion and secured the convention center, providing sufficient food and water for all individuals.

-- Engineering teams are working to reopen the airfield at Naval Air Station Belle Chase to provide a second runway for passenger and cargo operations.

-- The Air Force has flown in more than 9 million Meals, Ready to Eat from the Defense Logistics Agency.

-- Air Force aircraft are being operated by active and reserve-component units from Washington, California, Massachusetts, Ohio, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina, New Jersey, Mississippi, New York, West Virginia, and as far away as Puerto Rico.

-- Soldiers from Fort Gordon, Ga., are providing desperately needed communications support to the Federal Emergency Management Agency Joint Task Force Katrina, including both secure and non-secure voice and data communications and video teleconferencing.

-- In addition, some 400 workers from the Army Corps of Engineers were focused on draining New Oreleans and repairing gaps in its levee system. At the same time, Corps of Engineers planners are looking at plans to create a city of temporary housing for as many as 50,000 displaced people.

-- The Department of Health and Human Services is working with the Defense Department to establish 10 mobile Federal Medical Shelter facilities, each able to accommodate 250 patients, along the Gulf Coast. Two facilities will be positioned at Naval Air Station Meridian, Miss.; two at Air National Guard Station Meridian, Miss.; two at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and one at Fort Polk, La.

-- The Air Force's Medical Rapid Response Force is operating at New Orleans International Airport, where it is establishing a 25-bed hospital with emergency medical and surgical capabilities. A mental health team and dental team also deployed to New Orleans, Air Force officials said.

-- Airmen from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., are setting up two 250-person hospitals, with than 200 medical staffers, and a 1,000-person refugee camp in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. The tent city will include showers, food and electricity for patients' families and refugees.

-- A 60-member Contingency aeromedical staging facility team from Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, arrived in the afflicted area Sept. 2 to provide support and medical care for patients being evacuated. Officials said the team will set up a 24-hour tent facility to care for patients until they can be moved to a larger medical center.

-- The USNS Comfort, a hospital ship, set sail Sept. 2 from Baltimore and is scheduled to arrive in the Gulf Coast Sept. 8.

-- Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.; Naval Air Station Meridian, Miss.; Barksdale Air Force Base, La.; Alexandria, La.; and Fort. Polk, La.; are serving as federal operational staging areas to expedite the movement of relief supplies and emergency personnel to affected areas.

-- Several Navy vessels, including the carrier USS Harry S. Truman and dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island, are en route to the region to support FEMA. Whidbey Island will bring with it the capability to employ a movable causeway to the region.

-- The Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group is sailing from Norfolk, Va., loaded with disaster response equipment and is expected to be operating off the Louisiana coast beginning Sept. 4, officials said.

See also the permanent DOD information page on Hurricane Katrina Military Relief and Recovery Efforts.