The 3/405th Army Field Support Brigade sends more supplies for Haiti relief efforts
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LEGHORN ARMY DEPOT, Italy — The 3/405th Army Field Support Brigade sent another shipment of humanitarian relief supplies in response to a U.S. Agency for International Development request.
"We received the call from USAID notifying us that additional supplies were needed, and we packed and loaded the shipment as quickly as possible," said Lt. Col. (Promotable) Roger McCreery, commander of the 3/405th AFSB. "Our intent was to get the supplies to the area as quickly as possible in order to assist in relieving the suffering of the Haitian people."
USAID requested that the battalion deliver 6,336 more personal hygiene kits and 40,800 ten-liter water containers for assisting the earthquake-affected individuals. The supplies were loaded onto three trucks that transported the commodities to the Amsterdam International Airport, the Netherlands, where they were flown to Miami, Fla. The supplies will be prepositioned in Miami for subsequent movement to Port au Prince, Haiti, as USAID requires them.
"Our battalion is in an enviable position regarding the transportation of supplies," McCreery explained. "We have multiple transportation options here at the installation and are able to transport materials in whichever method the customer requests."
The 3/405th AFSB is responsible for the storage and maintenance of USAID emergency humanitarian assistance commodities under an interagency agreement between the U.S. Army and the U.S. State Department. This is the second shipment of humanitarian aid supplies that the battalion has shipped in support of the humanitarian relief effort in Haiti.
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