Transcript Operation Tomodachi - Marine Corps League

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Operation Tomodachi
III MEF / MCBJ Support to the People of Japan
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Operation Tomodachi
…Conduct humanitarian
assistance and disaster relief
…In support of the Government
of Japan
…To alleviate additional death
and human suffering
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Regional Presence / Operational Reach
Epicenter - 11 March
Misawa
YOKOTA
III MEF FORWARD
COMMAND ELEMENT
Hamanaki
Yamagata
Sendai
Fukushima
1,835 KM
Yakota
Atsugi
Tokyo
Yokuska
Osaka
Iwakuni
1,550 KM
ATSUGI
HMM 265 5 CH46’s
985 KM
IWAKUNI
VMGR 152 9 KC130J’s
HMM 265 3 CH46’s
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3/13/11
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Immediate, Flexible Response
28 Feb –
11 Mar
Exercise Key Resolve
 11 Mar
Sendai Earthquake
 11 Mar
U.S. Pacific Command Issues Task Order
 12 Mar
Deploy 4 KC-130J and 4 CH-46 with personnel and HA
supplies from MCAS Futenma, Okinawa to Iwakuni, JP
 13 Mar
Deploy 4 KC-130J and 4 CH-46 with personnel and HA
supplies from MCAS Futenma, Okinawa to Iwakuni, JP
 14 Mar
HSV departs from Naha Port. Postured to support GOJ
led relief operations
(Crisis in Korea)
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Marines secure
medical supplies to a
loading palette with a
cargo net at Marine
Corps Air Station
Futenma March 12
CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters prepare to depart Marine Corps
Air Station Futenma in Okinawa bound for Naval Air Facility
Atsugi on mainland Japan.
III Marine
Expeditionary
Force Marines
and sailors
disembark from a
KC-130J Hercules
aircraft at Yokota
Airbase.
A crew chief helps load a palette of medical supplies
into a KC-130J Super Hercules aircraft on the Marine
Corps Air Station Futenma flight line.
Marines board a
KC-130J Super
Hercules aircraft at
Marine Corps Air
Station Futenma to
provide assistance
in the wake of the
earthquake and
tsunami that
struck Japan.
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Supplies are
unloaded from a
KC-130J
Hercules aircraft
at Yokota
Airbase.
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III MEF HA/DR History
 Dec 2004 – Feb 2005
Indonesian Tsunami Response
 Oct 2005 – Mar 2006
Pakistan Earthquake Response
 Mar – Apr 2006
Philippine Mudslide Response
 May – Jun 2006
Indonesia Tsunami Response
 Mar 2007
Legazpi Typhoon Recovery
 Apr 2007
Solomon Islands Tsunami Response
 Nov – Dec 2007
Sea Angel II Bangladesh
 May – Jun 2008
Caring Response Burma
 Aug 2009
Taiwan Typhoon Relief
 Oct 2009
Philippine Typhoon and Indonesian Earthquake Relief
 Oct 2010
Philippine Typhoon Relief
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