Haiti rescue links
January 20th, 2010 | Coast Guard Maritime operations Royal Navy The greenside | Posted by Phil Ewing
Just as the dock landing ship Carter Hall prepared to offload supplies and troops offshore, so too do today's links bring the latest updates about the humanitarian mission in Haiti // MC2 Kristopher Wilson / Navy
Heavy-lift helo flyin’, cargo pallets loadin’, well deck floodin’, LCU launchin’, force-for-good-bein’ links, anchored offshore and ready to deliver the latest updates on the biggest Navy amphibious operation since Inchon.
- The U.S. is sending a second amphibious ready group to join the one already on station off Port-au-Prince and delivering shipments of food and medicine. The amphibious assault ship Nassau, the amphibious transport dock Mesa Verde and the dock landing ship Ashland are to arrive in the Caribbean within a week.
- The quiet professionals of the Coast Guard are continuing to evacuate Americans, deliver supplies and help clear the port of Port-au-Prince.
- Typically the Royal Navy would be a part of such a major international response to Haiti, The Times reports, but budget cuts mean Great Britain doesn’t have its normal naval presence in the Caribbean.
- How important is the port of Port-au-Prince to getting serious quantities of relief supplies into Haiti? Galrahn’s got a great post that talks about that and many other things. Sample factoid: 13 C-17 shipments = 1 USNS Sacagewea.
- Doctors aboard the hospital ship Comfort are peeved they haven’t been able to give more aid so far.
- Our salty senior colleague Mark D. Faram, on the ground with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, has some great shots of the Marines setting up their supply drop in Leogane.
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Gunner Says:
January 20th, 2010 at 7:55 pmI would also point out that there is a significant cost savings as well. Seven years ago, it cost $360,000 to deliver HDRs (Humanitarian Daily Rations) to a location. The same quantity, same location would have cost $17 Million to deliver by air, and the costs can only have gotten higher.
An LMSR can carry approximately 300 C-17 loads of “stuff”.