Posts Tagged tsunami

USS Essex completes support of Operation Tomodachi

USS EssexU.S. Pacific Fleet PACIFIC OCEAN (April 6, 2011) The amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) – Official prepares for a farewell formation steam with the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force Ship JS Hyuga (DDH 181). Essex, with the embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, has completed operations off the coast of Kesennuma in northeastern Japan, in support of Operation Tomodachi. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Mark R. Alvarez)

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HS-4 Black Knights in Japan

Helicopter AntiSubmarine Squadron 4

Helicopter AntiSubmarine Squadron 4 Nadia Brouillette, a Navy helicopter pilot of the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN76), presents a teddy bear to a baby during “Operation Tomodachi“ to deliver supply to the evacuees in an earthquake and tsunami devastated area in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture in Japan.

 

Helicopter AntiSubmarine Squadron 4

Japanese citizens unload food and water from a Navy helicopter off of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, which is providing humanitarian assistance to quake-devastated parts of Japan

From: MSNBC

When United States Navy helicopters swept down on the school in a ruined Japanese village, survivors first looked hesitantly from the windows. Then they rushed out, helping unload food, water and clothes. They clasped hands with the Americans. Some embraced them.

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Women of USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76)

This video from 2009 is kind of fun but the really interesting thing is all of the comments on YouTube thanking the crew for their help in the ongoing  tsunami relief effort.

This is typical:

Thank you to you all from Japan!

Japanese ppl never forget your assistance.

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Red Alert: Radiation Rising and Heading South in Japan

This report is published by Stratfor.

The nuclear reactor situation in Japan has deteriorated significantly. Two more explosions occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 15.

The first occurred at 6:10 a.m. local time at reactor No. 2, which had seen nuclear fuel rods exposed for several hours after dropping water levels due to mishaps in the emergency cooling efforts. Within three hours the amount of radiation at the plant rose to 163 times the previously recorded level, according to Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. Read the rest of this entry »

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