U.S. Navy Ships with "Thousands of Marines" Headed to Haiti - Video Report 1/14/10

Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | January 14, 2010 | Brian

[Federalist Patriot]

Here is a brief video report saying that Navy ships loaded with "thousands of U.S. Marines" and supplies is headed to Haiti to help the people in their desperate situation following a 7.0 Earthquake that struck there on Tuesday. The Marines will reportedly assist in rescue efforts and with security. . . . (VIDEO)

[JimRed]

I heard on the radio (WBT Charlotte) that the port is so damaged that the larger ships IE:the Vinson,Comfort and the Anphib Assault ship (don't recall name ) won't be able to dock ...

Anchoring out is nothing new in many Carribean ports. It does slow the offloading of supplies, however.

[US Navy Vet]

If you are an Anphib you don’t need to “dock”!

[US Navy Vet]

Amphib

[Robe]

Right , goes as well for our “over the horizon” concept of putting men and machines ashore ... But the real problem is the VERY heavy equipment that is needed now.
Sure a LCat can carry a full loaded Abrams , but how do you get the cranes bulldozers, generators, supplies to the Bataan in the first place? You can;'t have her shuttling back and forth to the U.S. to reload.
You need a harbor and a decent dock for a RO-RO to get in there and do the heavy offloading.EVEN IN A COMBAT SITUATION YOU NEED THE PORTS.
Another point , the hospital ship Comfort needs a dock also , yes it has a vertical lift capacity but your talking about a few patients at a time on a helo.
Comfort needs to be next to shore and any remaining Resorts/hotels used a Hospitals. Let the journalist sleep in tents

[Frantzie]

Start with contraception in Haiti. The place is incredibly overpopulated.

[Drew68]

It is also the courageous members of the U.S. Military that takes the lead in helping the suffering people in our world.

Hopefully they won't get shot at in Haiti, unlike New Orleans.

[krb]

Are you saying that the Commander In Chief of those Marines doesn’t count?

[RC one]

That sounds about right to me. I don’t think we need to go so far as to annex them though. I’m pretty sure that’s not even an option. We just need to use our leadership and influence to guide the rebuilding process in a direction that benefits everybody. Bottom line, before we start handing over millions of dollars in humanitarian aid, we need to make sure that a puppet government is in place our else we’ll just be rebuilding the institutionalized corruption that this earthquake has so conveniently laid waste to. As bad as this is, it is still a golden opportunity to build something better and the people of Haiti have to realize this.

[Robe]

I concur..the annex comment was just a wise A$$ remark ...

[Eagle Eye]

Good solution. Especially with the Canadian Problem lol.

[RC one]

ah. Well, regardless, it will be interesting to see what Obama and the Dems do about this. This is Obama’s Katrina now. He’ll be judged by the outcome here and he won’t be able to blame anyone but himself and his party if it turns into a giant cluster F... and I strongly believe that that will be the case if he declines to drive a stake through the heart of Haiti’s entrenched corruption.

[old and tired]

This is Obama’s Katrina now. He’ll be judged by the outcome here and he won’t be able to blame anyone but himself and his party

I disagree. There's no downside here for Obama. Haiti was a hellhole few Americans concerned themselves with before the earthquake and if that remains that afterwards, it won't reflect on That One at all.

On the other hand, if we go in and help the Haitians make something of themselves in the aftermath, Obama will have no trouble taking all the credit for it.

[RC one]

If he screws the pooch, we will make it his Katrina. IMO, we should be less concerned with that and more concerned with rendering the appropriate aid to this nation.

[Mr Inviso]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.. Isn’t the first time the Corps has been there.