All Clear
March 25th, 2011 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
Senior Airman Eva Gaus, left, and Senior Airman Jonathan Jones, right, both from 374th Civil Engineer Squadron, indicate “all clear” to the pilot after checking beta and gamma radiation at Yokota Air Base, Japan, March 17. C-17 aircraft transport Japan Grand Self Defense Force’s troop and vehicles from Okinawa for relief efforts up earthquake and tsunami sites. (Photo by Yasuo Osakabe)
Radiation Washdown
March 24th, 2011 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
This photograph released by the US Navy shows sailors conducting a wash down of the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan on March 23, 2011 off the coast of Japan. Navy officials halted air operations from USS Reagan on March 23, 2011 to clean the ship of contamination from radioactive plume it had passed while conducting humanitarian relief operations following the massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake and towering tsunami which battered northeast Japan on March 11. While the radiation did not pose any significant health risk, “it needs to go away,” Cmdr. Ron Rutan, chief engineer for the Reagan, said during an interview on March 22. AFP PHOTO / US NAVY
Earthquake Cleanup
March 21st, 2011 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
Service members and Misawa residents pull a damaged vehicle from the woods near the Misawa port. Service members, civilian employees, and family members from Naval Air Facility Misawa are helping residents clean up the port following a 9.0-magnitude earthquake that caused a devastating tsunami along Japan’s eastern coast. (Photo by: Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew M. Bradley)
Washed Away
March 16th, 2011 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
PACIFIC OCEAN (March 13, 2011) A Japanese home is seen adrift in the Pacific Ocean. Ships and aircraft from the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group are searching for survivors in the coastal waters near Sendai, Japan. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Dylan McCord/Released)
Mwen pwal ede
February 8th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
Sgt. Jesse Hertzog, a medic with the 1/73 CAV, uses a DLI Haitian-English Basic language survival guide to look up a phrase so he could help a Haitian man who was injured in the Jan. 12 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. According to the guide, "Mwen pwal ede" translates to "I am going to help."
It happens in Haiti, too
February 5th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
Soldiers from 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, replace the right windshield on a Humvee after a Haitian child threw a rock at it. The Soldiers are in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to help provide earthquake relief.
Humanitarian aid in Haiti
February 5th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
Some young children use the plastic bags that contain humanitarian meals as makeshift boots at a survivor camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 21, 2010. Officials estimate that there are as many as 10,000 families living in the camp just below a relief distribution point set up by the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment. DoD photo by Fred W. Baker III
Taina
February 3rd, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
Taina, a 12-year-old Haitian girl, screams in pain as Sgt. Jesse Hertzog and other medics from the 1-73rd, 82nd Airborne Division, pour a peroxide solution on her wounded arm at a one-doctor clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Jan. 23. The medics were at the clinic on a "tailgate medicine" mission when Taina was brought in. The young girl had bandages on three of her limbs, and as the medics unwrapped each one, the wounds revealed were more and more severe, culminating in the largest on her left arm. The medics used the peroxide solution to moisten the bandages, which had dried up and adhered to Taina's wounds, and thought that her arm and left leg may have been broken. As they were losing light, all they could do was clean the wound, rewrap it, and ask the doctor at the clinic to get Taina to a hospital as soon as possible.
Haitian
February 2nd, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
On the helo ride from the Port-au-Prince airport to the Petionville Country Club, where the 1-73rd was in control, we circled a few times, and this aircrewman waved and gave the thumbs-up ... he turned and saw me watching, smiled, shouted "MY HOUSE!" and pointed at the side of his helmet. I never got his name, but I will remember the size of this Haitian sailor's smile.
Neck check
January 27th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
Capt. Mark Poirier, an internist assigned to Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg, N.C., checks a Haitian man for neck and spinal injury at the home/clinic of a doctor in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010. The man was complaining of a stiff neck and sore chest muscles after extracting himself from beneath his home, which collapsed during the Jan. 12 earthquake.