Biloxi, Miss. - U.S. Navy Chief Selectee Aviation Boatswain's Mate Brian Wilson, assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5), prepares breakfast for survivors of Hurricane Katrina at Biloxi High School in Biloxi, Miss. Biloxi High School is serving as a shelter and medical facility for hundreds of Biloxi citizens.

U.S. Navy photo by
Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jonathan Carmichael

Maj. Timothy A. Doherty, from the 148th Medical Company, Georgia Army National Guard, helps a man up from a school building near downtown New Orleans.

The man was stranded by floodwaters caused by Hurricane Katrina.

by Brien Aho
Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army

Marines from Combined Arms Assault Team Platoon, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, pose with an American flag dug out of the mud during cleanup operations at the Slidell Municipal Auditorium.

1/8 is in Slidell to aid in disaster relief and humanitarian assistance operations in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Photo by: Sgt. Stephen M. DeBoard

NEW ORLEANS - Assault Amphibian Vehicles and infantrymen serving with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force St. Bernard travel down the decimated streets of Orleans Parish conducting search-and-rescue operations.

Some communities in the parish were, at one point, under more than 10 feet of water.

Photo by: Cpl. Rocco DeFilippis