{"id":552,"date":"2015-08-31T15:28:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=552"},"modified":"2015-08-31T19:43:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T19:43:45","slug":"10-years-later-and-still-a-katrina-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2015\/08\/31\/10-years-later-and-still-a-katrina-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Years Later and Still a Katrina Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-556 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/katrina-3.jpg\" alt=\"katrina-3\" width=\"941\" height=\"706\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most people around campus know him as Dr. Mike Canders, aviation professor and director of the Aviation Center.\u00a0 But to the 161 people he and his team from the New York Air National Guard\u2019s 106<sup>th<\/sup> Rescue Wing rescued 10 years ago in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he is Colonel Michael Canders, Commander of the 106<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-557\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/katrina-2-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"katrina-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the time, Dr. Canders and his group were stationed in Westhampton Beach, where they were preparing to deploy to Afghanistan for combat search and rescue missions.\u00a0 But when Katrina hit and devastated New Orleans, air force commanders ordered all available units to the Big Easy.\u00a0\u00a0 It was not the kind of mission the 106<sup>th<\/sup> had ever trained for, but, says Dr. Canders, \u201cAll of our combat training and overwater rescue work kicked in instantly and allowed us to safely complete this challenging work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-558 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/katrina-1.png\" alt=\"katrina-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, thinking back, Dr. Canders\u2019 thoughts are focused in the same way they were a decade ago: on the people.\u00a0 \u201cI often wonder how the people we picked off their rooftops made out in their lives after we dropped them in a safe environment.\u00a0 I hope they were able to recover in some fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/katrina-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-555 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/katrina-4.jpg\" alt=\"katrina-4\" width=\"989\" height=\"742\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people around campus know him as Dr. Mike Canders, aviation professor and director of the Aviation Center.\u00a0 But to the 161 people he and his team from the New York Air National Guard\u2019s 106th Rescue Wing rescued 10 years ago in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he is Colonel Michael Canders, Commander of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}