Showing posts with label Disaster Relief. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disaster Relief. Show all posts
Thursday, March 09, 2017

Disaster Aid from Air: Edible Drones

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Delivering disaster aid to areas stricken with violence or impassible roads or other reasons for inaccessibility is a problem. One company, ...
Friday, October 17, 2014

Fighting Ebola: The National Guard Call Up Makes Sense

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Photo Credit: Sgt. Joshua Ford, U.S. Army North PAO It has been widely reported that President Obama has authorized the federal activati...
Monday, November 18, 2013

U.S. Navy and the Philippines Relief Effort - Logistics, Logstics and More Logistics

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U.S. Navy photo by MC3 Class Ricardo R. Guzman I am not going to replicate the excellent coverage of Operation Damayan, the U.S. Navy an...
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Sunday, June 09, 2013

Teaching Disaster Realities

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A statistic from 5 Ways to Educate People About the Realities of Disaster Recovery caught my attention: A 2010 American Red Cross surv...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Department of Defense Assistance Following Hurricane Sandy

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Here's a portion of a DoD press release on what is happening, found at DOD, FEMA, Other Agencies Aid Storm-affected Areas : *** Sec...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

"Pakistan Sucks," Says a NY Times Op-Ed and "It's all America's fault."

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Yes, well, ignore billions of dollars of U.S. Aid humanitarian aid poured into the sink hole that is Pakistan and in the midst of a flood, b...
Monday, March 22, 2010

Haiti Logistics: What the DLA Did

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An under-reported story behind the U.S. military aid to Haiti concerning the Defense Logistics Agency as told by the - DLA's Sara Moore...
Friday, February 05, 2010

War in the Future: Satellite Alternatives and More

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Very interesting discussion here about some alternatives to GPS satellites upon which the U.S. military (and, in point of fact, a whole lot...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Haiti: Some JLOTS Components in Use

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U.S. Navy sailors, Marines and soldiers are working hard to find a means to improve the flow of disaster relief supplies into Haiti. Followi...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Haiti: Seaboard Marine to Resume Limited Shipping

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Press release from Seaboard Marine : Seaboard Marine is resuming vessel calls to Haiti and will have the first liner vessel to call in the P...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

Haiti: Canadian aid

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Troops: Canadian military team heading to Haiti : The 1,000 military personnel, based at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier in Quebec, will be ...
Saturday, January 16, 2010

Haiti: "Without the port, we'll starve"

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CNN.com Well, time to get the Navy "instant port" teams into action. See my earlier post Aid to Haiti: Port Broken? JLOTS could he...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

International aid efforts for Haiti

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BBC News - International aid efforts for Haiti under way : International efforts to help Haiti in the wake of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake a...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Relief Supply Stockpiles

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UN ReliefWeb map of storage sites for certain types of relief supplies: Click on map to enlarge. You might note there are some areas (China,...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Earthquake Aid

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PADANG, Indonesia (Oct. 11, 2009) A relief agency worker photographs children from Hula Banda village as they use ShelterBoxes for cover fro...
Thursday, October 01, 2009

Disaster Relief: Military Provides Rescue, Humanitarian Support in Pacific

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Military Provides Rescue, Humanitarian Support in Pacific: By Donna Miles and Lt. j.g. Theresa Donnelly, America Forces Press Service WASHIN...