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The Army, Defense Department and partner agencies are supporting ongoing assessment and response operations in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Soldiers of the New York Army National Guard’s 442nd Military Police Company deployed to Puerto Rico recently to provide assistance to law enforcement.
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Support to Puerto Rico
49th Public Affairs Detachment - U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers with the 1st Mission Support Command, and emergency disaster responders, transfer water cases to a distribution truck in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, Oct. 1, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Elvis Umanzor)
More than 3,500 Army National Guard members are working around the clock to support relief efforts in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Seventy Soldiers and eight HH-60 Blackhawk medevac helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division recently deployed to Puerto Rico for hurricane support.
Sixty Soldiers and four UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters from the New York National Guard recently deployed to Puerto Rico for hurricane assistance.
FRONTLINEU.S. Army Forces Command
October 6, 2017 | Volume VII, Issue 40
“There is no nobler task, no more profound depth of commitment and no selfless service greater than people helping people, Americans helping Americans.”
– Maj. Gen. Andrew Poppas CG, 101st Airborne Division
Sept. 27, 2017, Fort Campbell, Ky.
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101st Airborne gets to work in Puerto RicoThe 101st Airborne Division conducted its first assistance mission in Puerto Rico Friday, Sept. 29, transporting three medical teams to key hospitals in need of help. Six HH-60 medevac Blackhawk helicopters from Team Medevac, an element of the division’s 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, took Disaster Medical Assistance Teams from Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci Airport in San Juan to hospitals in Arecibo, Mayagüez and Ponce, according to an Army news release. Team Medevac, which includes more than 70 personnel and eight HH-60 medevac Blackhawk helicopters, left Fort Campbell Wednesday, Sept. 27, on two C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft. After arriving later that day at José Aponte de la Torre Airport, in Ceiba, Soldiers from the team and airmen from the 22nd Airlift Squadron, 60th Air Mobility Wing and the 68th Airlift Squadron, 433rd Airlift Wing unloaded the helicopters. The Soldiers then conducted test flights on Thursday before conducting their first relief mission Friday. The medical teams include doctors, nurses, paramedics, emergency management technicians, safety workers and others.
By DOD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department continues to deploy more response capacity to Puerto Rico to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s need for a commodities distribution network able to reach isolated com-munities and sustained medical support for the island’s residents, Army Lt. Col. Jamie Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement.
Army Lt. Gen. Jeffrey S. Buchanan, who is in command of DOD’s Hurricane Maria response and relief efforts in Puerto Rico, is leading the department’s efforts to establish aerial and sea-port nodes of debarkation throughout Puerto Rico so that FEMA, with DOD support, can flow resources throughout the commonwealth, Davis said. Buchanan is being assisted by his deputy, Army Brig. Gen. Richard C. Kim.
DOD is also supporting the establishment of a medical support plan to best position medical support assets as they arrive in Puerto Rico, the spokesman said.
Army Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, Chief of Engi-neers and commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is in Puerto Rico overseeing temporary power installation, electrical distribu-tion repairs, infrastructure improvements and Guajataca Dam reinforcement, Davis said.
Sixteen helicopters from Fort Bliss, Texas, will deploy to Puerto Rico Oct. 2-3 on a C-5 Galaxy air-craft strategic lift mission, the spokesman said.
The Navy’s amphibious assault ship USS Wasp and additional Marine Corps rotary wing aircraft are en route to support operations in Puerto Rico, Davis said.
Sgt. 1st Class Jose W. Linares, a native of Luquillo, Puerto Rico, 432nd Transportation Company, 346th Transportation Battalion, 166th Regional Support Group, 1st Mission Support Command, secures pallets of Meals, Ready-To-Eat and bottles of water on a logistics vehicle system before distributing it to Florida, Barceloneta, Hatillo and Quebradillas, Puerto Rico, Sept. 30, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Alleea Oliver)
Army, DOD continue to provide assistance to Puerto Rico
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Above Soldiers with 6th Battalion, 101st General Support Battalion, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), deliver food and water, Oct. 3, 2016 to Orocovis, Puerto Rico. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Marcus Floyd)
Left The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort arrives in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Oct. 3, 2017. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Capt. Christopher Merian)
Left The Ceiba City Major (center), speaks with members of the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), in front of the town’s multipurpose building in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, Sept. 30, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Pablo N. Piedra)
Right U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Bryan Ortiz (top), motor transport operator, 1st Mission Support Command, and another Army Reserve Soldier, secure pallets of water onto a distribution truck at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Oct. 1, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Elvis Umanzor)
Above Soldiers assigned to the 44th Medical Brigade, Fort Bragg, N.C., farewell the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, in the Caribbean Sea, Sept. 23, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Alleea Oliver)
