From my archive of press clippings:
Stars and Stripes
By Megan McCloskey, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Friday, January 22, 2010
Photos by Megan McCloskey
Photos by Megan McCloskey
Spc. William Vargo tends to an earthquake victim bound for the USNS Comfort on Thursday. The military planned to evacuate at least 100 people Thursday from the main Port-au-Prince hospital. The effort was expected to last at least two days.
Sgt. 1st Class Michael Reyna holds the hand of an earthquake victim bound for the USNS Comfort before boarding a Navy helicopter at the presidential palace Thursday.
Soldiers unload an injured Haitian man from an Army ambulance Thursday to evacuate him to the USNS Comfort.
Soldiers carry an injured Haitian man from the main Port-au-Prince hospital to an Army ambulance, which was taking patients to the presidential palace for a helicopter transport to the USNS Comfort on Thursday.
Sgt. 1st Class Michael Reyna holds the hand of an earthquake victim bound for the USNS Comfort before boarding a Navy helicopter at the presidential palace Thursday.
Soldiers unload an injured Haitian man from an Army ambulance Thursday to evacuate him to the USNS Comfort.
Soldiers carry an injured Haitian man from the main Port-au-Prince hospital to an Army ambulance, which was taking patients to the presidential palace for a helicopter transport to the USNS Comfort on Thursday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Army hasn’t done an evacuation like this since Normandy. The USNS Comfort is operating at a level like never before.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"More than a thousand Haitians most seriously injured in last week’s earthquake are being flown by helicopter to the Navy’s hospital ship for surgery and other desperately needed treatments."
