U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Timothy Mickel examines a patient at the Killick Haitian Coast Guard Base surgical screening site during Continuing Promise 2011 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 18, 2011. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric C. Tretter.
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Steven Cole unravels razor wire at the Esaie Jeanty Hospital Cite Soleil engineering site during Continuing Promise 2011 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Aug. 20, 2011. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America. DoD photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Scott Wojciechowski, U.S. Navy.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Aug. 21, 2011) Personnel embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) prepare the ship for departure during Continuing Promise 2011. Comfort is temporarily leaving Haiti in anticipation of adverse weather as Hurricane Irene approaches the area. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alesia Goosic/Released)
U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Timothy Mickel examines a patient at the Killick Haitian Coast Guard Base surgical screening site during Continuing Promise 2011 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 18, 2011. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric C. Tretter.
A Florida National Guard UH-72A Lakota participates in a personnel recovery exercise, May 2, 2011, in Gonaives, Haiti. The Lakota is a newly fielded light helicopter meant to perform peacetime missions traditionally issued to the UH-60 Black Hawk. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Paul Meeker) (Released)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 6, 2010) An aerial photo taken during a damage assessment flight from the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) shows damage caused by Hurricane Tomas in Haiti. Iwo Jima is preparing to support the Government of Haiti, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Samuel R. Beyers/Released)
Haitian citizens walk through flooded streets of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 6, 2010, after Hurricane Tomas hit the country. U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 774 flew CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters over Haiti to assess hurricane damage to prepare for tentative disaster relief efforts. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Alicia R. Giron
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Gorshe holds a handicap Haitian boy as they wait for his mother to get medicine from the pharmacy at the Continuing Promise 2010 medical site in Poert-de-Paix, Haiti, Aug. 1, 2010.
Iwo Jima is operating off the coast of Haiti supporting Continuing Promise 2010, a humanitarian and civic assistance mission.
The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked aboard Iwo Jima are working with partner nation teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations.
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathen E. Davis.
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Sgt. Emile Proctor, a water treatment non-commissioned officer with the Virgin Islands National Guard’s Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit (ROWPU) Detachment, changes a water hose at the U.S. Army South New Horizons- Haiti 2010 Forward Operating Base on Aug. 8, 2010.
New Horizons, in partnership with the government of Haiti, is conducting medical, dental and engineering missions for the locals in Gonaives.
New Horizons also provides valuable learning experiences in a real-world environment for our U.S. Forces.
(Photo by Spc. Jessica Lopez, Louisiana National Guard)
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates meets with sailors aboard the destroyer USS Higgins in San Diego, Aug 12, 2010. The destroyer, recently returned from an around-the-world deployment, was the first ship to arrive in Haiti, following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in January 2010. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Elena Pence
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(Left to right) Pfc. Blake Brouilette and Pvt. Case Dupuy work on a New Horizons-Haiti 2010 school renovation project in the Gonaives area of Haiti. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Scott Bell, Task Force Kout Men PAO)
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Maj. Gen. Simeon Trombitas, commander of JTF-Haiti, asks a few Haitians about the living conditions at the internally displaced persons camp, Corail Cesselesse. Trombitas took some time to walk around the camp and see the improvements made in the past few days. Photo by Pvt. Samantha D. Hall/11th PAD
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Air Force Reserve aerial port members from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., review aircraft load schedules as part of their duties in support of Operation Unified Response March 22, 2010, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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NORFOLK (April 3, 2010) The multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) returns to Naval Station Norfolk. Bataan returned after conducting humanitarian and disaster relief operations as part of Operation Unified Response in the aftermath of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti Jan. 12. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Rafael Martie/Released)
