U.S. Southern Command
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 00:00
Using the embassy as their central site to treat patients, military medical teams set up the building's conference room for surgeries.
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 00:00
Since the mobile aeromedical staging facility team arrived, they have helped to aeromedically evacuate more than 155 Haitians and Americans back to the U.S. for medical treatment.
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 00:00
As part of Operation Unified Response, the crew of Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 2 has been working non-stop from dropping off a Marine Air-Ground Task Force assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), to carrying approximately 300 tons of cargo to K
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 00:00
According to HSC-22, the overall statistics for the detachment since arriving on station with Bataan Jan. 18 include 137 medical evacuations, the distribution of 118,130 pounds of supplies and 85,226 pounds of food and water.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 00:00
Having the Haitians working with the U.S. forces is the beginning of a process to eventually have ATC operations completely turned over to the Haitians and airport authorities.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 00:00
While the ESC is still managing logistics and distributing supplies, the same basic mission it had in Iraq, this is the first time the unit is deployed as part of a humanitarian relief effort.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 00:00
A civil affairs team from the Joint Forces Special Operations Component Command met with the delegate of Cap Haitien Feb. 5 to discuss the city's current capabilities and how the team can assist the local government.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 00:00
Personnel from USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) scouted possible helicopter landing zones near Cange, Haiti Feb. 8 that would expand the hospital ship's capability to transfer and receive patients injured in the earthquake that left hundreds of thousands of Haitian
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 00:00
The team, made up of Army South engineers, departed San Antonio on Jan 13, to work with governmental and non-governmental organizations to assess the damage in Haiti and to build the deployable Joint Command and Control Center, which would later be the he
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 00:00
To date, the efforts produced more than 700 unclassified images that helped identify such items as displaced people, major damage to infrastructure and clear ground routes, helping prioritize short- and long-term relief efforts.