First Aid
January 22nd, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Jean Gerber, 11, center, grimaces as medic Buddy Davis removes a bandage to check on the boy’s wound at a country club used as a fort operating base for the 82nd Airborne Division in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Relief groups and officials are focused on moving aid flowing into Haiti to survivors of the powerful earthquake that hit the country on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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January 22nd, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by M. Scott Mahaskey
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Petty Officer 3rd Class Cameron Croteau, a Damage Controlman aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Oak, carries an injured Haitian girl to an awaiting Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Coast Guard and Navy helicopters airlifted injured Haitians to a private hospital in Milot, Haiti. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandyn Hill.)
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January 21st, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by M. Scott Mahaskey
Haitian citizens watch as Sailors and Marines assigned to the Bataan Amphibious Relief Mission begin to come ashore to set up an operating base at the New Hope Mission at Bonel, Haiti. The multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) is on station in Haiti with the amphibious dock landing ships USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43), USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44), and USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) supporting Operation Unified Response, a joint humanitarian assistance mission to Haiti following a 7.0 magnitude on Jan. 12. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kristopher Wilson)
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January 20th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by M. Scott Mahaskey
Marines dig pits, which will serve as their living spaces and fill sandbags at Observation Post Huskars in Helmand province, Jan. 14, 2010. The Marines and sailors of Alpha and Weapons Companies, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment and attachments from 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, have moved deeper into Helmand province in order to limit the Taliban’s control over the area, by having a more prominent coalition force presence in the region. (Photo by Lance Cpl. James Clark)
Medevac for the Wounded
January 19th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
Air Force Tech Sgt. Nicholas Wentworth hangs an intravenous solution inside an MH-60S Sea Hawk prior to flying an earthquake victim to the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson for medical treatment Jan. 17. ( MC2 Joel Carlson / Navy via AP)
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January 17th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by M. Scott Mahaskey
Soldiers with Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, attend the re-enlistment of Army Sgt. Aaron Ivory Teutsch, a native of Bloomington, Ill., at the top of Baba Shaba Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan on Jan. 11. (Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christine Jones)
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January 16th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by M. Scott Mahaskey
Members of Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue conduct a rescue operation at the Montana Hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 14. The all-volunteer service partnered with U.S. Agency for International Development and multi-national relief agencies to support relief efforts in the aftermath of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that occurred earlier in the week. ( Navy photo by MC1 Joshua Lee Kelsey)
On board the USS Bataan
January 15th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Colin Kelly
Marines from the 22nd MEU load onto the amphibious assault ship Bataan in Morehead City, N.C., on Jan. 15 preparing to depart for Haiti in support of earthquake relief efforts.
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January 14th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by M. Scott Mahaskey
- Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Wilburn, an aviation maintenance technician from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., guides U.S. personnel affected by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12, to a waiting HC-130 Hercules aircraft, Jan. 13 as part of the U.S. government’s humanitarian assistance and disaster response efforts. Coast Guard personnel from Air Station Clearwater, Fla., worked to evacuate nearly 140 U.S. personnel from Haiti on Jan. 13. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Mariana O’Leary.)
Winter Fun for S. Korean Special Forces
January 14th, 2010 | Photography The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
South Korean special warfare forces train in the snow during a winter field drill in Pyeonchang, some 180 kilometers east of Seoul on January 8, 2010. The Korean peninsula is the world’s last Cold War frontier as Stalinst North Korea and pro-Western South Korea have been technically at war since the 1950-53 conflict. AFP PHOTO/JUNG YEON-JE