The administration is finally doing what it should have done a week or more ago.
Liar. What purpose do you serve by continuing to infest the planet? Your existence is a blight on the human race.
Ricardo Rosselló, the
DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico is more honest than you are, but you don't want to acknowledge what he says.
DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "We are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times".
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The Defense Department has dispatched about 2,600 troops to aid Hurricane Maria victims in the U.S. Virgin Islands and in Puerto Rico, where access to power and communications remained severely limited after the Category 4 storm struck the U.S. territory.
The military has focused primarily on conducting search and rescue operations, delivering life-sustaining supplies and providing generators and fuel to power critical infrastructure such as water treatment facilities and hospitals, Army Col. Rob Manning, a Pentagon spokesman, said Monday.
Military units were also conducting route and airfield clearance in Puerto Rico.
Marines and sailors from the USS Kearsarge, a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship now in the Caribbean Sea, were deployed Sunday on the island for the mission.
Meanwhile, Puerto Rico National Guard members were conducting similar clearance operations while also helping evacuate victims and installing temporary communications infrastructure.
Helicopter-borne troops from the Kearsarge have conducted medical evacuation missions this week and delivered about 22,200 pounds of supplies and cargo to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Kearsarge was initially deployed to respond to Hurricane Harvey when the storm struck the Texas coast in late August. The ship has since been used to respond to Hurricane Irma and Maria.
The Pentagon also deployed eight UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from Fort Campbell in Kentucky to San Juan to help officials in Puerto Rico distribute goods across the island. Officials have estimated it will be months before power is restored to some parts of the island.
On Monday Army Corps of Engineers personnel were helping inspect the Guajataca Dam, a critical levee in Puerto Rico’s northwest corner that is in danger of breaking, Manning said. Governor Ricardo Rosselló ordered 70,000 inhabitants near the dam to evacuate.
The military has pledged to provide as much help as needed in response to Maria and the two earlier storms that ravaged parts of Texas, Louisiana, Florida and the Caribbean.
Thousands of U.S. troops remain committed to operations in Texas and Florida in response to Harvey and Irma, but the relief efforts have not stretched the Pentagon too thin.
“We have the capability to do exactly what we’re doing, and we’re going to do all we can for the people of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in the wake of these disastrous storms,” he said. “This is a long-term effort. It’s a marathon, not a sprint."
https://www.stripes.com/news/military-conducting-multiple-operations-to-help-hurricane-maria-struck-puerto-rico-virgin-islands-1.489496#.Wc0U4L3KvDB