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Hawaii Airmen Relocate to Japan
More than 70 crew members of Patrol Squadron 4, currently on deployment in Okinawa, Japan, arrived at Naval Air Facility Misawa, March 16, to better assist with Japanese relief efforts. The squadron repositioned their relief efforts in the wake of the recent 9.0-magnitude earthquake that triggered a massive tsunami on Japan’s eastern seaboard. The Hawaii-based squadron initially provided its efforts from Kadena Air Base, but the transition to NAFM will increase the Squadron’s time on site and reduce time in transit. They will provide two aircraft and four combat aircrews rotating daily from NAFM, providing search and rescue, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. The repositioning, according to Cmdr. Kevin Long, executive officer of Patrol Squadron 4, could not have come soon enough. “This is where we need to be,” he said. “Being on site for … Read entire article »
Filed under: Disasters, Earthquake Japan, Military
It Depends Which End of the Cow You’re At
Previous in series Next in seriesTable of contents for Continuing Promise 2009Continuing Promise 2009 BeginsOur Best: Seaman Gina HeggIt Depends Which End of the Cow You’re AtOur Best: Cmdr. Alison LeFebvreContinuing Promise 2009 in El Salvador … Read entire article »
Filed under: Humanitarian Assistance, Military
Exercise African Lion 2009 Aids Moroccans
More than 600 Moroccans from here and surrounding villages converged for humanitarian assistance being offered by U.S. and Moroccan service members participating in Exercise AFRICAN LION 2009. Thirty eight U.S. and 46 Moroccan military personnel, and nine civilian medical professionals provided medical, dental and veterinarian care to all who showed up. The majority of U.S. service members were from the Utah National Guard, state partner to Morocco under the National Guard State Partnership Program, although, care was … Read entire article »
Filed under: Humanitarian Assistance, Military
Aid Delivered to Rural Babil
The residents of a small village in rural Jawadia of the Babil province received an unexpected surprise recently. In the early morning hours under a hazy, sand-induced overcast sky, local villagers awoke to find Iraqi police of the Al Furat Police Station and Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, pulling into their village with a railcar shipping container in tow. When the smiling IP officers cracked open the container, a plethora of supplies … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
USS Kearsarge Reports on Continuing Promise 2008
“The perfect platform” That’s how Commodore Frank Ponds described the USS Kearsarge’s role in humanitarian assistance missions. Kearsarge is in the midst of Operation Continuing Promise 2008, supporting Phase 2 ops in the Caribbean. Kearsarge deployed from its home port of Norfolk on August 6, 2008, crammed to the bulkheads with personnel and supplies for this mission. Integral in the planning for CP2008 was the recognition that the ship would be at sea during hurricane season and, … Read entire article »
Our Best: Helping the Lame Walk Edition
PHILIPPINES (June 6, 2008) Capt. Kathy Goldberg, a physical therapist aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), assists Romeo Bintoy with taking his first steps in eight years after having corrective plastic surgery. Pacific Partnership program assists the government of the Philippines in providing local communities with medical, dental and engineering civic action programs providing focused humanitarian assistance. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joseph Seavey … Read entire article »
Filed under: Military, Our Best: Military Women
Operation Continuing Promise 2008 – 1
It wasn’t so long ago that the appearance of a United States Naval vessel off the coast of a Central or South American nation meant only one thing. The Marines were landing, either to prop up an existing government or to replace it. The history of United States interventions in the affairs of other nations in our hemisphere goes back to nearly the founding of our country. You cannnot blame the citizens of Latin American … Read entire article »
Jegdalak Medical Health Center Inspected
Appearances can be deceiving. The Jegdalak medical health center, standing alone atop a rock-strewn hill overlooking Jegdalak, looks nothing like a medical facility. The clinic, however, serves a remote region of more than 30,000 Afghans. Located approximately 100 miles east of Kabul, traveling to this remote clinic from Kabul is a challenge in itself. Lt. Cmdr. Dan Patterson, Navy Lt. Anthony Dotson, Air Force Maj. Lena Soto and their inspection team, made the trip recently … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Soldiers Visit Village for 1st Time Since Russians
Soldiers from 101st Airborne Division Special Troop Battalion conducted the first foot patrol in Qalehyegolay village, directly outside Bagram Air Field in 20 years, April 12, according to Afghan Col. Crolam Myjtabe Quais, the Afghan national police chief for Parwan province. The intention of the patrol was to meet with village leaders near BAF and create a working relationship between the community and the Soldiers. “My Soldiers were extremely motivated and well disciplined,†said Army 1st … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Rebuilding, War on Terror
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