U.S. Southern Command
Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 00:00
U.S. Air Force and Federal Aviation Administration officials paired with a Russian airlift contractor Jan. 21 to deliver a mobile air traffic control tower to the Toussaint L'Ouverture International Airport n Port-au-Prince.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 00:00
Part of the problem, officials said, is that word is getting out around Port-au-Prince that this is the place to come for food and water. Yesterday’s estimate put 25,000 people at the base of the hill waiting for some sort of relief
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 00:00
Gates announced that he signed deployment orders this morning to send a port-clearing ship equipped with cranes to get the port operating within a week or two to speed up aid distribution
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 00:00
In a life-saving move, a Navy helicopter transported two severely injured Haitians to receive treatment aboard this hospital ship: a 6-year-old boy and 20-year-old man - had received care on the USS Carl Vinson, a U.S. aircraft carrier
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 00:00
As the ship approached shore in the capital city here, sailors aboard the Comfort felt the magnitude 6.1 aftershock. The jolt collapsed a pier in Port-au-Prince that medical planners were hoping to use as an evacuation point for injured Haitians
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 00:00
Approximately 125 Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit came ashore near Leogand, Haiti today beginning relief operations in a pasture that is now being used as a landing zone for helicopters loaded with supplies
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 00:00
Local reports put the aftershock at magnitude 6.1, but it lasted only a few seconds just after 6 a.m. According to reports it was centered about 35 miles northwest here. No damage was apparent here
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 00:00
U.S. Navy Maritime Prepositioning Ship USNS 1ST LT Jack Lummus is loading cargo at Blount Island Command, Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 18-19 in support of international disaster relief efforts underway in Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake. Lummus is loa
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 00:00
Since being established with the approval of the government of Haiti on Jan. 16, the Haiti Flight Operations Coordination Center (HFOCC) in Port au Prince has supported and approved 330 landing requests received from inbound aircraft supporting relief eff
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 00:00
The ships of the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and embarked elements of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit arrived off the coast of Haiti Monday to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief for earthquake survivors and bolster relief operations