The number one question that the Federal Emergency Management Administration, the Department of Defense, and Congressional overseers need to ask in a post-disaster assessment of Hurricane Helene is what caused the delay in Title 10 Forces responding? Soldiers and equipment from the 82d Airborne Division and XVIII Airborne Corps based in Fort Liberty, N.C., less than 250 miles from Boone and Asheville, N.C., arrived five days after the disaster.