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USS Kearsarge Provides Relief Aid to Haiti

Haitians forced to leaved their homes after flooding from recent tropical storms make temporary shelters, while the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge provides disaster relief, Sept. 8, 2008. Kearsarge was diverted from Continuing Promise 2008, a humanitarian mission in the western Caribbean, to help in Haiti.

U.S. Navy Capt. Fernandez Frank Ponds, Continuing Promise 2008 mission commander, meets Haiti Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis at the airport in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 9, 2008. Continuing Promise 2008 is an equal-partnership mission among the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.

U.S. Sailors assigned to the USS Kearsarge unload food and water supplies to prepare them for delivery to citizens affected by the recent tropical storms, Port Au Prince, Haiti, Sept. 9, 2008. The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge has been diverted from the scheduled Continuing Promise 2008 humanitarian assistance deployment in the western Caribbean to conduct disaster relief operations in Haiti.

U.S. Marines embarked aboard USS Kearsarge deliver supplies to support disaster relief efforts in the nation following devastating storms in Port Au Prince, Haiti, Sept. 9, 2008.

The USS Kearsarge sits off the coast of Haiti, Sept. 9, 2008. The USS Kearsarge was diverted from it humanitarian assistance mission in Colombia to Haiti to assist with disaster relief efforts.

U.S. pilots embarked aboard USS Kearsarge fly disaster relief missions into areas hardest hit by recent tropical storms in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 9, 2008.

An aerial picture shows an area flooded as a result of Hurricane Ike in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 9, 2008.

U.S. Marines embarked aboard USS Kearsarge deliver supplies to support disaster relief efforts in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 9, 2008.

U.S Navy Ensign Christopher Loper, embarked aboard USS Kearsarge, offloads food from a Super Stallion helicopter during disaster relief operations in Haiti following recent tropical storms, Sept. 8, 2008.

Haitians forced to leaved their homes after flooding from recent tropical storms make temporary shelters, while the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge provides disaster relief, Sept. 8, 2008. Kearsarge was diverted from Continuing Promise 2008, a humanitarian mission in the western Caribbean, to help in Haiti.
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Emmitt Hawks