2nd Quarter 2008

   

Bangladesh soldiers and U.S. Marines and sailors load bags of food and supplies on a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter at Barisal Airfield.
Photo by Sgt. Ezekiel R. Kitandwe, USMC

Foreword

Adm.Timothy J. Keating,
Commander,
U.S. Pacific Command

 

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Lt. Col. Thomas Black, USAF

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Capt. LaShauna Lindsey, USAF

 

EDITORIAL BOARD
 Chairman:
Col. Frank Rossi, USAF

Members:
Ms. Karen Kelley, State Dept.
Lt. Col. John Carothers, USA
Lt. Col. James G. McAden, USA Cmdr. Dominick J. Strada, USN
Cmdr. John D. Wheeler, USN
Maj. Christopher R. Cortez, USAF
Maj. David Doherty, USA
Maj. Patrick Schuler, USA
SCPO B. Natalie Dias, USN

 













 

 

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Disaster Relief ::

Delivering Relief to Cyclone-Devastated Bangladesh
 In support of the U.S. State Department and U.S. Agency for International Aid (USAID), and in cooperation with the humanitarian community and the Bangladesh government, the U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) provided humanitarian aid in Operation SEA ANGEL II to Bangladesh following Cyclone Sidr. The aid helped to reduce further loss of life and mitigate human suffering from the 15 November 2007 cyclone that swept through Bangladesh killing an estimated 4,000 people, displacing more than three million citizens, and causing massive flooding and infrastructure damage.
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Humanitarian Assistance ::

Pacific Partnership Mission
Planning for the Pacific Partnership mission began in 2006. The U.S. Pacific Fleet (USPACFLT), building upon its relief efforts following the 2005 Southeast Asia tsunami and the 2006 deployment of the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), began envisioning a sustained four-month mission for one of its ships. The mission would focus exclusively on bringing humanitarian aid to the Philippines, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands in the summer of 2007.
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C-17 Delivers Relief to Oceania
Funded by the U.S. Pacific Command, a team of approximately 50 U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy personnel provided medical, dental, civil engineering support and training to residents of Vanuatu, Kiribati, and Nauru for eight days in July 2007.
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Multinational Teams Improve Health Care in Indonesia
Forty eight military medical personnel from Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States met in Jogjakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, in June 2007 to participate in Exercise TENDON VALIANT V, a medical readiness exercise for training and education (MEDRETE). The Indonesian government and military (TNI) hosted the exercise along with the U.S. Army, Pacific (USARPAC) Surgeon’s Office.
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Happenings ::

Happenings…
In an 11-hour mission, a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III and crew launched from Christchurch, New Zealand, and airdropped engine parts and supplies abeam the Argos Georgia, a British fishing vessel stranded in the ice floe off the Ross Ice Shelf on 4 January 2008. “Considering the unforgiving Antarctic climate, we recognized the potential for this to become a life or death situation.
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