Katrina, Haiti, Yemen... to name a few. Basically taxpayer theft projects, though I was a bit more naive, back then. I believed I was helping people. Emergency services is 90% graft. 9% standing around waiting and 1% actually helping people. For example, I was in Bogalusa during Katrina. I deployed with the Army's 101st cavalry. In the immediate aftermath, I helped save a lot of people. Up days straight. Not enough help to go around. Had to defend myself a few times with direct action. Then, they put me on helo duty, where I gathered GPS data to sync to pictures and video and call out people still on roofs (rooves?) and whatnot. So, there was an intense flurry of activity, then just sitting around Algiers watching a bunch of destitute people mill around. They weren't rebuilding, they were waiting for us to rebuild for them. Ha. Then Rita hit. Ripped up our whole outpost. And then we were on our own. No orders. Nobody wanted my GPS data or pictures or videos. FEMA personnel disappeared. The boss had a massive wad of cash, a pallet of cigarettes, a pallet of liquor and a few other treats we used as currency. First, were the sub pumps and trash pumps. We cracked open every gas station we found, loaded up the fuel truck and gave out fuel. We did it for free, but we bartered. We sub pumped out a pool and found a dead kid loaded with jewelry in pockets who must have been looting during the storm. This house also had a refrigerator full of shrink wrapped Weed. A few pounds. When there is no working cash registers, these things all work great as currency. We also bartered out the use of generators. After the initial burst of activity, we sat for months. Doing nothing. Getting into trouble trading for our goods. When I left, it was still a shit hole. Roughly the same arc is followed for every emergency deployment. The political players don't care once they've fleeced the crisis and just leave huge groups that cost millions to sit and wait for the next disaster.