Joint Task Force Caring Response
Joint Task Force Caring Response was a United States multi-service humanitarian assistance and disaster relief effort for Burmese citizens devastated by recent Cyclone Nargis in 2008.
History
[edit]JTF Caring Response was led by Lieutenant General John F. Goodman of the U.S. Marine Corps.
During a delivery by MAG-36 supported by 36th Airlift Squadron on 19 May 2008 to Yangon International Airport in Burma approximately 15,000 pounds of water, water containers, rations, and mosquito netting were unloaded from a C-130 Hercules aircraft in direct support of VMGR-152. [1]
Expeditionary Strike Group 7/TF 76/31st Marine Expeditionary Unit was also standing by off the Myanmar coast in order to be ready to deliver aid should it be allowed to do so.
References
[edit]- ^ "Joint Task Force Caring Response brings help to Burmese citizens". USAF. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-05-26. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
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