Monday, January 17, 2005

Operation Unified Assistance: "Operation Unified Assistance is the humanitarian operation effort in the wake of the Tsunami that struck South East Asia on 26 December 2004. Some 20 U.S. naval vessels are in the region and 85 U.S. military aircraft are working to deliver supplies to the survivors.

By Jan. 5, 2005 US servicemembers had delivered more than 610,000 pounds of relief supplies to the region. In the previous 24 hours, U.S. helicopters delivered 5,560 pounds of water, 142,940 pounds of food and 2,100 pounds of supplies.

Helicopters assigned to Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2) and Sailors from Abraham Lincoln conducted humanitarian operations in the wake of the Tsunami that struck South East Asia. The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is currently operating in the Indian Ocean off the waters of Indonesia and Thailand."

(Via GlobalSecurity.org.)