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Re:Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily by leggomylibro on Thursday October 05, 2017 @05:29PM (#15412727)
It seems like there should be a carrier parked off the island providing relief. Those things are freaking cities, complete with state-of-the-art trauma centers and heavy logistics support. It's what the US does when there are massive tsunamis or similar in other parts of the world.

And don't tell me that the army's engineering corps can't spare a bunch of trucks, half-tracks, bulldozers, mobile bridges, etc. That and preparing for/preventing natural disasters is practically what the army's engineering corps exists for, domestically. The US army holds its place in the world because of its astonishing ability to provide extensive logistical support anywhere, anywhen. But we apparently can't manage basic distribution in our own home when the roads get swamped?

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Re:Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily by rgbrenner on Thursday October 05, 2017 @05:37PM (#15412764)
There is a carrier off the coast of PR: USS Kearsarge. The USS Oak Hill (not a carrier though) is also in PR. Both arrived shortly after Maria hit.

The USS Wasp was recently moved from Dominica to PR.

Note, this is still less help than FL received for Irma. FL got Kearsarge + Oak Hill + New York + Iwo Jima. (The last two ships have about 2000 people.. they were clearing roads, restoring electricity, and distributing supplies in FL.. they went home from FL the same day maria was upgraded to a cat 4 and was just off PRs coast.)

And note, USS Wasp was in PR for Irma, then moved to Dominica for Maria, now has moved back a couple of days ago. (USS Wasp has water purification systems.. they're literally distributing water)

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Re:Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily by zaroth on Friday October 06, 2017 @01:42AM (#15414672)
Good update from WaPo on ship deployments [1] including deploying USMS Comfort (which apparently PR officials initially declined).

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/10/04...

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Re:Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily by leggomylibro on Thursday October 05, 2017 @05:51PM (#15412843)
Huh, cool. It's always nice to see them being used for relief efforts like this.
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