DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable: USS Bataan

Filed under Bloggers Roundtable, Operation Unified Response-Haiti by on January 19, 2010 at 10:31 am {no comments}

We have scheduled a DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable with Cmdr. Melanie Merrick, USS Bataan Senior Medical Officer, Cmdr. William Wallace, Fleet Surgical Team (FST) 8 Officer-in-Charge and Lt. Cmdr. Seon Jones, FST 8 Surgeon, Tuesday, Jan. 19 at 1 p.m.

USS Bataan is en route to Haiti as part of the Bataan Amphibious Relief Mission to participate in Operation Unified Response. Cmdr. Merrick, Cmdr. Wallace and Lt. Cmdr. Jones will provide an update of the capabilities Bataan brings to the humanitarian relief mission.

Bataan was the first Navy ship on-scene in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, a category-4 hurricane, made landfall. The ship spent 19 days supporting the relief efforts by moving more than 1,600 people to safety and delivering more than 160,000 pounds of supplies to the Gulf Coast of the United States.

To listen to the interview, click here.

To view the transcript from this interview click here.

To view an article from this interview, click here.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Discusses U.S. Military Efforts

Filed under DoD News, Operation Unified Response-Haiti by on January 16, 2010 at 10:38 am {no comments}



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