Beachfront Property
February 24th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne at FOB White, near the pier at Port-au-Prince, eat their meals (all MREs, all the time – this isn’t Afghanistan, y’know) on the beach – it keeps the rats away from tents.
The Jolly Regulator
February 18th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
A Navy Seabee diver studies the damage chart of the supports on the the pier at the port of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hundreds of supports to the remaining 30 percent of the secondary pier will have to be fixed before more than one cargo ship can dock.
Port Repair
February 17th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Chief Equipment Operator Steven Eckroth, a Navy diver with Underwater Construction Team One, works to repair the supports on the the pier at the port of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Army 544th Engineer Dive Team is working on the biggest mission in its history – hand in hand with Navy divers and engineers to help get the port running at a higher capacity – as it is the main artery for the country.
Follow me
February 16th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
A U.S. paratrooper from the 82nd airborne carries a sack of rice for a woman at a distribution point at the national stadium in Port-au-Prince on January 31. Quake-hit Haiti will need at least a decade of painstaking reconstruction, aid chiefs and donor nations warned, as homeless, scarred survivors struggled to rebuild their lives. (AFP photo / Thony Belizaire)
Cartwheels
February 10th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
A Haitian boy does cartwheels on the beach in Grand Goave with the amphibious assault ship Bataan in the background Feb. 1. Bataan is conducting humanitarian and disaster relief operations as part of Operation Unified Response after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake caused severe damage in and around Port-au-Prince on Jan. 12. (MC3 Samantha Robinett/Navy)
Abundant FOD
February 9th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
An airman watches as FOD gets stirred up by the engines of his C-17 on the ramp at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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.
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.