Photo: Capt. John Moore, commodore, Combined Task Force (CTF) 367, greets local residents and receives flowers shortly after the arrival of the guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul (DDG 74) to the port of Batumi.

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Two U.S. ships are on the way, with nearly 95 tons of humanitarian supplies to be taken to eastern Georgia. Guided missile destroyer USS McFaul left port in Souda Bay, Crete, Aug. 21, loaded with 72 pallets of relief supplies. Coast Guard Cutter USCGC Dallas departed the next day with 50 pallets.

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On Sunday, a U.S. Navy warship carrying humanitarian aid for Georgia anchored in the southern Georgian port of Batumi. It was the first of five American ships scheduled to arrive this week with supplies.

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The Coast guard cutter Dallas and the the guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul are enroute to Georgia by sea, having been granted permission to transit the Straits by the Turks.

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More photos added at Flickr site. Navy aircraft fly into Georgia with aid.

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More pictures of the U.S. military’s relief effort for the Republic of Georgia are now in the Flickr gallery:

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In addition to 130 tons of airlifted cargo, U.S. European Command has granted the Georgian government in Tblisi access to a $1.2 million stockpile of disaster relief and medical supplies stored in Georgia.

“We are going to continue to flow in assistance,” Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said today. “We have been over the weekend, and we will continue this week.”

More than 700 pallets sent by the U.S. have consisted of thousands of blankets, sheets, sleeping bags, and hundreds of cots. Another 40 pallets have contained medical supplies like sutures, needles, syringes, catheters and gauze, Whitman said.

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From the blog of two Peace Corps members in Georgia: Watching Russian TV is quite an experience. My favorite move so far is showing NATO patches on the bodies of Georgian troops, and claims that Georgians had executed entire villages of South Ossetians. Russian media manipulation is a real sight to behold when it’s running at full steam.

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Here is a short piece written by an eighteen year old woman from Georgia.

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Iraqi Security Forces will partner with the 41st Fires Brigade and occupy several checkpoints and patrol bases previously manned by the 1st Georgian Brigade.

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