Relief Sent to Haiti
Although emergency relief is being coordinated in Haiti, the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army have received orders to leave for Haiti, following an announcement by the US Department of Defense of Thursday. They will be deploying for Haiti with over 3,500 troops.
The first 100 of the 82nd US Airborn will arrive in Haiti on Thursday to provide “humanitarian assistance, relief and security as required”. The 82nd Airborne Division is from Fort Bragg, North Caroline.
The army will also be sending three amphibious ships, and the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson to Haiti, as well as a hospital ship, a destroyer, several Coast Guard cutters and transport planes. There are also plans to send about 2000 marines to provide relief effors after the earthquake according to the head of Southern Command, General Douglas Fraser.
Thousands of men, women, and children have died in the high magnitude earthquake and aftershocks that registered as a 7.0 in scale. Around three million people were directly affected by this earthquake, and the city of Port au Prince has been reduced to rubble. The number that are injured and dead has still not been confirmed at this time as many are still suspected to be trapped beneath the debris.
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