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2010-01-16 Caribbean-Latin America

Marines to aid Haitian earthquake relief. UN thinks it should be in command.

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Posted by gorb 2010-01-16 02:10|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Going parochial early are we? My, that didn't take long. Ok "United Nations" ~~oil for food~~ relief squalor merchants, if you're in charge, TAKE CHARGE! You've done so well in other garden spots in the past. Keep in mind however, the world's media, such as it is, is covering this one closely. So mind the graft, drugs, stealing, rape and pillage of the indig please. Somehow I must have completely forgotten how the UN's Air Force sent in Combat Contol Teams, generators, light sets, medical pers, and re-opened the airport.

Divvy the damn thing up into 'sectors' like Berlin and get the job done, and get the hell out while we can still get the stink off.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-16 07:43|| 2010-01-16 07:43|| Front Page Top

#2 I think that as far as US Marines go, "being under UN task org" is regarded about as favorably as "cowardice under fire".

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-16 08:18|| 2010-01-16 08:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Besoeker, if we divvied up into sectors there would be such a stampede into the US sector that the whole bloody island would start to tilt.

Posted by AlanC 2010-01-16 08:21|| 2010-01-16 08:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Never let a good crisis go to waste.

Posted by tu3031 2010-01-16 10:08|| 2010-01-16 10:08|| Front Page Top

#5 this is the only time Lawrence Korb approves of our military *spit*

as to Moon, Here's a clue: go f*ck yourself. Get out of the way and let the real life-savers - the US military - do their work.

Oh, and Geraldo landed this AM, so that's a portable clusterf*ck

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-16 10:28|| 2010-01-16 10:28|| Front Page Top

#6 When's Oprah showing up?

Posted by tu3031 2010-01-16 10:31|| 2010-01-16 10:31|| Front Page Top

#7 When is the Carl Vincent battle group gonna show up? There's been reports they were gonna be there a few days ago. No news that I can find.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2010-01-16 10:56|| 2010-01-16 10:56|| Front Page Top

#8 It's Vinson, not Vincent. Got there Thursday night, I think, with extra helicopters it picked up on the way. Not clear to me it has a battle group - was en route to San Diego home port (where it would presumably take its position as replacement in that group) after just being commissioned, IIUC.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-01-16 11:12|| 2010-01-16 11:12|| Front Page Top

#9 For all that - when is 'The Holy One' showing up?

I'm sure someone somewhere can find a portable generator (or steal one from a hospital) to run the camera's for his photo-op.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-01-16 11:12|| 2010-01-16 11:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Glenmore, the Carl Vinson was commissioned in 1982. It was apparently in dock for a long-term refit - sounds like almost four years in Norfolk?

Hopefully it's fully up to speed - they were working on deck re-certification last month.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-01-16 12:12|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-01-16 12:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Deck recert will affect the fixed wing assets, but not the helos. When stationed @ PAX RIVER our group Strike Aircraft Test Directorate would send a couple of a/c equipped with all sorts of telemetry and a contingent of engineers to re calibrate the ACLS and Mode 1, among other things, to a CV leaving the yards. No impact on rotary wing ops.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2010-01-16 12:28|| 2010-01-16 12:28|| Front Page Top

#12 USS Vinson got there Thursday night. No battle group per se - escort ship is the USS Higgins.

Posted by Pappy 2010-01-16 12:28|| 2010-01-16 12:28|| Front Page Top

#13 CF, I'm sure someone somewhere can find a portable generator (or steal one from a hospital) to run the camera's for his photo-op.

I'm sure you're right but you forgot the extra drain of all the tele-prompters.

Posted by AlanC 2010-01-16 13:57|| 2010-01-16 13:57|| Front Page Top

#14 "#9 For all that - when is 'The Holy One' showing up?"
After he's done losing the election for Coakley...

Posted by Drang 2010-01-16 14:41|| http://thecluemeter.blogspot.com/ 2010-01-16 14:41|| Front Page Top

#15 I'd second that about Cuban-trained doctors. Made that mistake ONCE, never again. I'd trust the local voodoo healers over a Cuban-trained doctor any day of the week.

Besides, that Korb guy obviously doesn't know a thing about how the Haitians and Cubans feel about each other if he made those dumb statements. See the real world for a change, pal, and get out of the "think tank".

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-01-16 15:48|| 2010-01-16 15:48|| Front Page Top

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